Antarctica is the continent which is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly covered with ice. This is one of the driest and     1    in the world. But people from all over the world come to     2    there. Near the South Pole, three thousand people live together in a place     3    Amundsen-Scott Station.
    The station has libraries, cinemas, shops, sports rooms, canteens and laboratories. There is electricity, and they have     4    —the system that they use to have a conversation with someone in another place. And they have     5    —electronic machines that store information and use programs to help them find, organize, or change the information. But the people here     6    travel by car, or train, or bus, because there aren't any roads or railways near the station. They travel by ship, helicopter, planes, or snow tractors, or     7    dogs.
    There aren't     8    trees or flowers there, but there are hundreds of different birds and other animals. Most of the people here are     9    . They study plant and animal life and how ice moves. The ice can tell us about changes in climate. Ray Kingman is an expert at Amundsen-Scott station telling us on the phone, "This is my second year here. It's a very interesting and beautiful place, but life is very hard     10    . In the summer we can go swimming in hot pools of water. We welcome newcomers here for further study of the continent!"