Listen to the tape and fill in the gaps in the text using the words from the list.

My year in Antarctica
Week 1 – My Antarctic ... begins!

Hi, everyone!
Well, here I am at the ... research station in Antarctica, the coldest, windiest, and driest ... in the world! It’s summer right now, so the weather is quite 'mild'– it’s 0°C today! There are still a lot of ... , though, and of course, the sun never sets in the summer, which is really ... ! Despite the ... cold, the ... and ... here are ... . There are ... everywhere and yesterday I saw a ... whale.
Everyone is ... me about the winter here! The ... will drop to about -40°C and the ... won’t rise at all. There will only be 20 of us and we won’t have any ... for 7 months. It’ll be ... , but at least I’m going to be very busy. As a marine ... , I’m going to study the way ... wildlife ... to ... temperatures. I’m also going to do a survey of the ... Emperor Penguin. I can’t wait to start!
Tomorrow, all the ... are going on a ... course for a week with ski-doos and ... . We’re going to ... in the snow and learn things like what to do if we fall down a crevasse*. I hope there won’t be a ... like the one we had on my ... day here. Well, bye for now! I’ll tell you all about the ... when I’m back at the ... station next week.
Matt

* crevasses are deep cracks in the ice, sometimes covered by snow!