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One summer day in the 1850s, a traveler in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California came upon an interesting
sight. In the harsh landscape of tumbled brown rocks he saw “long files of Chinamen working alone.” They wore blue
cotton shirts, wide-legged trousers, wooden shoes, and broad-brimmed straw hats. Their jet-black hair was cut short,
except in the back, where each man wore a long braid called a queue.
The men were busy sifting sand from the beds of mountain streams, rocking it back and forth in shallow pans as the
water ran out. Like many other people in California in those years, the Chinese miners were panning for gold.
Gold had been discovered in 1848 along the American River in California, on the property of a man named John
Sutter. Although Sutter tried to keep the discovery a secret, words of the fabulous find soon reached San Francisco, and
hundreds of people deserted the city to set off for the American River. The news spread to the rest of the United States,
and to other parts of the world as well. By January of 1849, 60 ships and thousands of overland travelers were heading for
California. The California Gold Rush had begun.
More than 70,000 hopeful adventurers embarked for California in 1849 alone. Among these “Forty-Niners” were
325 men from China. More Chinese came the next year, and the next. Like the prospectors who came from the eastern
United States and elsewhere, the Chinese hoped to find gold—but all of them found a new world and a new way of life,
with challenges, fears, and opportunities that they had not expected.
43 What does the word “embarked” in the last paragraph mean?
Started out Longed Worked Set up
44 Who were the “Forty-Niners” in this passage?
People who were forty-nine years old then.
The Chinese who went to America for the California Gold Rush.
People who went to California for the Gold Rush in 1849.
People who lived along the American River in California.
45 According to this passage, what was the effect of the Gold Rush on the Chinese people?
Many Chinese built chinatowns along the American River.
Many Chinese went to California to find a fortune.
Many Chinese went to America to learn English.
Many Chinese went back to China to look for gold mines.
46 What is the main idea of this passage?
The Chinese were part of the California Gold Rush history.
There was prejudice against the Chinese in America in the 1800s.
People from all over the world became rich in the California Gold Rush.
The Chinese hired many miners in the California Gold Rush.
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Many animals adapt their behavior to the challenges they face either under natural conditions or in laboratory
experiments. For example, in some parts of Africa, chimpanzees select suitable branches 47 they break off twigs to
produce a slender probe, which they poke into a termite nest so as to eat the termites 48 to it as it is withdrawn.
Such ingenuity is not limited to primates. In late winter some beavers cut holes in the dams they have previously
constructed, causing the water level to drop, which allows them to swim about under the ice without holding their breath.
Certain insects, specifically the honeybees, 49 symbolic gestures to communicate the direction and distance their
sisters must fly to reach food.
These are only a few of the more striking examples of animals’ versatile behavior. 50 insisting that ani mals do
not think at all, many scientists now believe that these animals sometimes are capable of simple thoughts, although these
thoughts are probably different from any of ours.
47 that which with that from which
48 cling and cling clinging have clung
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50 In spite of Rather than Because of Except for