ACTIVITY 2 IT PAYS TO KNOW. Fan in the banks with the correct form of the verbs in parenthesis to complete the given paragraph. OUR CONTINENT ASIA Asia, the largest of the continents, has an area of mare than 44 million square kilometers. It ___1.___ (be) bigger than North America and South America put together.
Of all the continents, Asia ___2.___(have) the greatest contrasts. In the mountain range of the Himalayas it 3. (have) the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. The water-line of the Dead Sea, between Israel and Jordan, 4.(be) the lowest point on the earth's surface.
More than half of all the people in the world5. (live) in Asia. The continent 6. (have) many of the world's largest cities, including Tokyo, and Peking. About 40 other cities 7.(have) several million inhabitants each. Yet vast areas of Asia 8. (be) uninhabited, or very nearly so. Scareely any people, for example, 9.(live) on the steppes and in deserts of the central regions. Nine-tenths of the continent's population10.(be) crowded together on one-fifth of the land where it 11. (be) possible to grow crops and build cities and other settlements. Asia 12. (be) often called the Cradle of Civilization because it 13.___(be) in Asia that men began to develop the skills and ideas on which civilization 14.(be) built. People also 15. (believe) that Asians 16.(be) the first to construct permanent houses and settlements. It 17. (be) in Asia that men learned to put copper, tin and iron to use, that the art of writing 18___(be) developed, and that alphabets 19.(be) devised. Paper, gunpowder, and crop irrigation 20. (be) among other Asian inventions and ideas. And it 21. (be)in Asia that most of the world's major religions had their origins.

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