Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 34 to 38.

Deserts are not uninhabited places as many people believe. ___(1)___ the daytime air temperature may reach an unbearable 58oC and the surface temperature 77oC, many animals live in these conditions. Their survival, however, is dependent on them being able to get water they need. Observation of desert animals has revealed a lot about the strategies they ___(2)___ to achieve this. Researchers have found that beetles, for example, get their daily ___(3)___ of water after waiting for the moisture from fog to condense on their bodies and drip down into the mouth. Larger desert animals have come up with ___(4)___ solution to the problem of finding a source of water. For example, creatures like hares or rats get their supply by eating considerable amounts of desert vegetation, ___(5)___ contains the water they require. However extreme the conditions may be, desert animals somehow manage to obtain water.