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39. The tone of this passage is …. mining camps and towns _43_ ever more
lawless, including rampant banditry
(A) critical gambling, prostitution, and violence.
(B) amused After 1850, the surface gold in
(C) objective California largely disappeared. Though
(D) outraged gold mining continued throughout the
(E) humorous 1850’s, it had reached its peak by 1852,
when some eighty-one million dollars
The discovery of gold nuggets in the was pulled from the ground. After that
Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked year, the total take _44_. Settlement in
the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most California continued, however, and by the
noteworthy events to shape American end of the decade the state’s population
history during the first half of the was 380,000.
ninetieth century. _40_, thousands of
prospective gold miners travelled by sea Gunakan Petunjuk A dalam menjawab
or over land to San Francisco and the soal 40 sampai nomor 45!
surrounding area. By the end of 1849, the
non-native population of the California 40. ….
territory was some 100,000 (compared (A) as the discovery of news spread
with the pre-1848 figure of less than (B) as of the discovery news spread
1,000). A total of 2 billion dollar’s worth
(C) as news of the discovery spread
of precious metal _41_ from the area
(D) spread as news of the discovery
during the Gold Rush, which peaked in
(E) the news as spread of discovery
1852.
Throughout 1849, people around
41. ….
the United States (mostly men) borrowed
money, mortgaged their property or (A) extracted
spent their life savings to make the (B) was to extract
arduous journey to California. In pursuit (C) was extracted
of the kind of wealth they had never (D) was extracting
dreamed of, they left their families and (E) was to be extracted
hometowns. In turn, women left behind
took on new responsibilities such as 42. The italic phrase took on in paragraph
running farms or businesses and caring 2 means ….
for their children alone. Thousands of
(A) shared
would-be gold miners, known as ‘49ers,
(B) shouldered
travelled overland across the mountains
(C) declined
or by sea, sailing to Panama or even
(D) established
around Cape Horn, the southernmost
(E) volunteered
point of South America.
To accommodate the needs of the
43. ….
‘49ers, gold mining towns had sprung up
all over the region, complete with shops, (A) grow
saloons, brothels and other businesses (B) grew
seeking to make their own Gold Rush (C) has grown
Fortune. The overcrowded chaos of the (D) were growing
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44. ….
(A) reached a peak
(B) took a soar
(C) became surprising
(D) remained lucrative
(E) declined gradually
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