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(pockmarked, stopped, shovels, bordered, careered, vestiges, erected, collision)
My headache soon cleared as we …………….1…………… down the other side of the pass. It was two o’clock by the time we ………….2……….. for lunch. We ate hot noodles inside a long canvas tent, part of a work camp …………..3 ……….. beside a dry salt lake. The plateau is ………….4………….. with salt flats and brackish lakes, …………..5…………… of the Tethys Ocean which …………6………… Tibet before the great continental …………..7…………. that lifted it skyward. This one was a hive of activity, men with pickaxes and …………..8…………… trudging back and forth in their long sheepskin coats and salt-encrusted boots.

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1. careered, 2. stopped, 3. erected, 4. pockmarked, 5. vestiges, 6. bordered, 7. collision, 8. shovels

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