Задание

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A–F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1–7.  Одна из частей в списке 1–7 лишняя.

on the border of Nepal and China in Asia,

making it harder to breathe

to save energy when food is hard to find

because it can help him to stay alive

where plants become much smaller

it wraps around the globe like the seams of a baseball

the colder it gets

Mountains are on every continent. The longest mountain range is over 40,000 miles long — and 90 per cent is under the ocean!! Called the Mid-Ocean Ridge, (A) . The longest above-ground mountain range is the Andes. Mount Everest, (B) is the highest mountain above sea level in the world.

From bottom to top, a mountain has several ecosystems. At the very bottom, there are trees which lose their leaves in winter. Higher up are coniferous forests with tall pines and other evergreen trees. The farther up a mountain one climbs, (C) — about one degree Fahrenheit cooler every 300 feet. This is usually where the «tree line» ends, and (D) . Mosses and lichens grow low to the ground, and in the spring, mountain meadows come alive with wildflowers. The air also becomes thinner towards the top because oxygen molecules are more spread out, (E) .

Most plants can’t live at the top of some super high mountains — such as Mount Everest and Mont Blanc in the Alps in Europe. That is why it is very difficult to find any types of plants here. But animals have adapted to extreme climates in the mountains. For instance, the red panda in Asia’s Himalaya grows a thick coat. Grizzly bears living in the mountains of North America survive the cold winters by hiding out and resting (F) . Other animals, like mountain goats, migrate to lower, warmer elevations during the winter.