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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – TRUE OR FALSE
Read the text and find out whether the statements A-F is True or False.
Put
A
if the statement is True or put
B
if the statement is False.
TASK 12
A) There are many highlands in California.
B) Redwoods and giant sequoias may be found in many states of the U.S.A.
C) California is the most densely populated state.
D) According to the author, California may be described as a paradise.
E) The gold rush took place on September 9, 1850.
F) California was not among the first states to enter the Union.
The third largest state in the Union, California covers an area of great physical diversity in
which uplands dominate the landscape. California’s size, complexity, and economic
productivity make it preeminently a state of superlatives. It has the lowest point in the
country, in Death Valley, and the highest U.S. peak outside of Alaska, Mount Whitney.
Among the 50 states it has the greatest number of national parks and national forests, and
the only stands of redwoods and giant sequoias. Its annual farm output i s greater in value
than that of any other state, and it leads the rest of the nation in the production of many
crops. It is the leading state in volume of annual construction and manufacturing.
California has more people than any other state and more automobiles, more civil aircraft,
and more students enrolled in universities and colleges. Between the late 1940s and late
1980s, the rate of growth and actual growth of California’s population and economy were
phenomenal compared with other states. However, th is growth also gave rise to, or
aggravated, several major problems that now face Californians. Much of the growth
occurred in the dry south where water shortages must be offset by vast, expensive public
projects delivering water from the wetter north. Urban centers extended outward into good
farmland, forever removing it from food production. In addition, as population continues to
increase, California is faced with the problem of providing its inhabitants with more
schools, hospitals, water, highways, recreational facilities, and other services. The name
California
was first used to designate the region by the Spanish expedition led by Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo, as it sailed northward along the coast from Mexico in 1542. The name
itself was probably derived from a popular Spanish novel published in 1510 in which a
fictional island paradise named California was described. The state’s official nickname is
the Golden State, referring to the gold rush, which played a central role in California’s
entry into the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. The nickname also suggests
the state’s golden fields and sunshine.
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