Asia is the biggest of the seven continents. In fact it covers about 30 percent of all the world’s land. Asia is (1) _____________ big that it touches Europe in the west and nearly reaches North America (2) ______________ the east. In northern Asia are the vast frozen lands of Siberia. In the south (3) _________ the damp tropical forests of Malaysia (4) ______________ Indonesia. Asia has large crowded cities (5) ______________ Bombay, India. It has huge, empty inland deserts like the Gobi in China. Seven (6) _____________ the ten longest rivers in the world flow through Asia. Asia has the world’s highest point at Mount Everest in Nepal. It has the lowest point too. That’s near the Dead Sea, in an area of southwest Asia called the Middle East. At any given moment, (7)_____________ are places in Asia that are very hot and others that are very (8) _____________ . There are places that are as dry as a bone and other that are rainy and wet.