Câu hỏi:
20/04/2022 170Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42
After the United States purchased Louisiana from France and made it their newest territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson called for an expedition to investigate the land the United States had bought for $15 million. Jefferson's secretary, Meriwether Lewis, a woodsman and a hunter from childhood, persuaded the president to let him lead this expedition. Lewis recruited Army officer William Clark to be his co-commander. The Lewis and Clark expedition led the two young explorers to discover a new natural wealth of variety and abundance about which they would return to tell the world. When Lewis and Clark departed from St. Louis in 1804, they had twenty-nine in their party, including a few Frenchmen and several men from Kentucky who were well-known frontiers men.
Along the way, they picked up an interpreter named Toussant Charbonneau and his native American wife, Sacajawea, the Shoshoni “Bird Woman” who aided them as guide and peacemaker and later became an American legend.
The expedition followed the Missouri River to its source, made a long portage overland thought he Rocky Mountains, and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. On the journey, they encountered peaceful Otos, whom they befriended, and hostile Teton Sioux, who demanded tribute from all traders. They also met Shoshoni, who welcomed their little sister Sacajawea, who had been abducted as a child by the Mandans. They discovered a paradise full of giant buffalo herds and elk and antelope so innocent of human contact that they tamely approached the men. The explorers also found a hell blighted by mosquitoes and winters harsher than anyone could reasonably hope to survive. They became desperately lost, then found their way again. Lewis and Clark kept detailed journals of the expedition, cataloging a dazzling array of new plants and animals, and even unearthing the bones of a forty-five-foot dinosaur.
When the party returned to St. Louis in 1806 after travelling almost 8,000 miles, they were eagerly greeted and grandly entertained. Their glowing descriptions of this vast new West provided a boon to the westward migration now becoming a permanent part of American life. The journals written by Lewis and Clark are still widely read today.
The purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition was ___________
Sách mới 2k7: 30 đề đánh giá năng lực DHQG Hà Nội, Tp. Hồ Chí Minh, BKHN 2025 mới nhất (600 trang - chỉ từ 160k).
Quảng cáo
Trả lời:
Mục đích của cuộc thám hiểm của Lewis và Clark là ______.
A. để thiết lập thương mại với Otos và Teton Sioux.
B. để khám phá lãnh thổ được Hoa Kỳ mua.
C. để mua đất từ Pháp.
D. để tìm nguồn của sông Missouri.
Đáp án: B
Giải thích: “President Thomas Jefferson called for an expedition to investigate the land the United States had bought for $15 million. Jefferson’s secretary, Meriwether Lewis, a woodsman and a hunter from childhood, persuaded the president to let him lead this expedition...”: Tổng thống Thomas Jefferson đã kêu gọi một cuộc thám hiểm để điều tra vùng đất mà Hoa Kỳ đã mua với giá 15 triệu đô la. Thư ký của Tổng thống Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, một người quen đi rừng và một thợ săn từ thời thơ ấu, đã thuyết phục tổng thống để ông ta dẫn đầu cuộc thám hiểm này...
Đã bán 152
Đã bán 114
Đã bán 132
Đã bán 47
CÂU HỎI HOT CÙNG CHỦ ĐỀ
Câu 1:
As a protection device, an octopus ejects black or purple ink to cloud the water when ___________
Câu 2:
The ___________ and file supporters of the party were cheered by the election result.
Câu 3:
In simple animals, ___________ reflex movement or involuntary response to stimuli.
Câu 4:
It appears that the hostages were not ___________ to any unnecessary suffering.
Câu 5:
It was a stroke of luck that he had always been able to write with ___________ hand.
Câu 6:
When she heard from the hospital that her grandfather had died, she ___________ into tears.
Câu 7:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Considerations of safety were eventually ___________ by those of cost.
về câu hỏi!