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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

 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 frontiersmen. 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 though the 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.

It can be inferred from the passage that the Lewis and Clark expedition________.

A. experienced more hardships than successes

B. encouraged Americans to move to the West 

Đáp án chính xác

C. probably cost the United States more than $15 million

D. caused the deaths of some of the explorers

Trả lời:

verified Giải bởi Vietjack

Đáp án B

Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Có thể suy luận từ đoạn văn rằng cuộc thám hiểm Lewis và Clark

A. gặp nhiều khó khăn hơn thành công

B. khuyến khích người Mỹ di chuyển sang phương Tây

C. có thể tiêu tốn của Mỹ hơn 15 triệu đô

D. gây ra cái chết của một số nhà thám hiểm

Thông tin: Their glowing descriptions of this vast new West provided a boon to the westward migration now becoming a permanent part of American life.

Dịch bài đọc:

Sau khi Hoa Kỳ mua Louisiana từ Pháp và biến nó thành lãnh thổ mới nhất vào năm 1803, Tổng thống Thomas Jefferson đã yêu cầu một cuộc thám hiểm để điều tra mảnh đất mà Hoa Kỳ đã mua với giá 15 triệu USD. Thư ký của Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, một tiều phu và thợ săn, đã thuyết phục Tổng thống để ông dẫn dắt chuyến thám hiểm này. Lewis đã tuyển mộ sĩ quan quân đội William Clark làm đồng chỉ huy của ông. Chuyến thám hiểm của Lewis và Clark đã dẫn dắt hai nhà thám hiểm trẻ tuổi khám phá ra sự đa dạng tự nhiên và phong phú về điều mà họ sẽ quay trở lại để nói với thế giới.

Khi Lewis và Clark rời khỏi St. Louis vào năm 1804, họ đã có hai mươi chín người trong đội của họ, bao gồm một vài người Pháp và một số người đến từ bang Kentucky, những người khai phá nổi tiếng. Trên đường đi, họ đã thu một thông dịch viên tên là Toussant Charbonneau và người vợ người Mỹ bản xứ của anh, Sacajawea, "Người phụ nữ chim" Shoshoni, người đã giúp họ như người hướng dẫn và hòa bình, và sau đó trở thành một huyền thoại của Mỹ.

Cuộc thám hiểm theo sông Missouri đến nguồn của nó, đã thực hiện một chuyến đi dài qua dãy núi Rocky, và xuống sông Columbia đến Thái Bình Dương. Trong cuộc hành trình, họ gặp được Otos yêu hoà bình, người mà họ kết bạn, và thù địch Teton Sioux, người yêu cầu cống vật của tất cả các thương nhân. Họ cũng gặp Shoshoni, người đã chào đón em gái của họ là Sacajawea, người đã bị những người Mandans bắt cóc khi còn nhỏ. Họ khám phá ra một thiên đường đầy những đàn trâu khổng lồ và hươu cao quý và linh dương chưa hề tiếp xúc với con người đến mức chúng tình cờ tiếp cận những người đàn ông. Các nhà thám hiểm cũng tìm thấy một địa ngục bị tàn phá bởi muỗi và mùa đông nghiêm trọng hơn việc bất kỳ ai có thể tưởng tượng để tồn tại được. Họ đã lạc đường một cách tuyệt vọng, rồi lại tìm thấy đường. Lewis và Clark lưu giữ các ghi chép chi tiết của cuộc thám hiểm, liệt kê một loạt các loài thực vật và động vật mới mẻ, và thậm chí là khai quật xương của một con khủng long bốn mươi lăm foot.

Khi cả nhóm trở về St. Louis vào năm 1806 sau khi di chuyển gần 8.000 dặm, họ đã được háo hức chào đón và được tiếp đãi đàng hoàng. Những mô tả của họ về phương Tây rộng lớn này đã mang lại lợi ích cho việc di cư về phía tây giờ đây trở thành một phần lâu dài của cuộc sống Hoa Kỳ. Các ghi chép được viết bởi Lewis và Clark vẫn còn được đọc rộng rãi ngày nay.

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