San Francisco lies on the coast of northern California...

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks from 25 to 29.
San Francisco lies on the coast of northern California. The earliest Europeans to discover the (25) ___________ were led by a Spanish explorer whose name was Gaspar de Portola.
He first saw it in 1769. Surprisingly, although San Francisco Bay is a wonderful natural harbor, it was discovered by land (26) ___________than by sea.
In 1849, people (27) ___________in San Francisco in their thousands hoping to find gold. However, it was not the men looking for the gold that got rich. The richest (28) ___________their money from owning banks and law firms and they built themselves large houses on one of the hills. This was known as Nob Hill.
Nowadays, tourists are (29) ___________ to San Francisco because there they can see famous places like Chinatown and the Golden Gate Bridge.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (26) is...
A. except
B. instead
C. apart
D. rather