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 questions from 35 to 42.
Alaska's first major gold discovery occurred in Juneau in 1880, when two prospectors guided by a native found gold in a creek that, of course, is now called Gold Creek. The city itself is named for Joseph Juneau, one of the miners, while the other miner, Richard Harris, lent his name to the Harris Mining District. Their find led to the discovery of a lode of gold quartz that has supported mining to present times.
Prospectors arrived in the 1890s as a result of gold strikes in the Klondike and near Nome. Many took steamships to Skagway in Southeast Alaska, where they began their trek by land to the Klondike. The discovery of gold at Anvil Creek in 1898 brought thousands of fortune seekers to the Nome area; gold was later discovered on Nome's bering sea beaches, where it is still found today. Prospectors can be seen straining gravel in their sluice boxes along the shore, perhaps just hoping to find enough gold to pay for their annual summer trips to Nome. A major commercial gold dredging operation was conducted offshore in the 1990s.
The gold rush gave many communities in Alaska their start. Gold was discovered in Fairbank, for example, in 1902, and it became an important supply post as well as a center of mining activity where major operations continue today.
The word it in the second paragraphmeans most nearly the same as
A. nome
B. fortune
C. beach
D. gold
Alaska's first major gold discovery occurred in Juneau in 1880, when two prospectors guided by a native found gold in a creek that, of course, is now called Gold Creek. The city itself is named for Joseph Juneau, one of the miners, while the other miner, Richard Harris, lent his name to the Harris Mining District. Their find led to the discovery of a lode of gold quartz that has supported mining to present times.
Prospectors arrived in the 1890s as a result of gold strikes in the Klondike and near Nome. Many took steamships to Skagway in Southeast Alaska, where they began their trek by land to the Klondike. The discovery of gold at Anvil Creek in 1898 brought thousands of fortune seekers to the Nome area; gold was later discovered on Nome's bering sea beaches, where it is still found today. Prospectors can be seen straining gravel in their sluice boxes along the shore, perhaps just hoping to find enough gold to pay for their annual summer trips to Nome. A major commercial gold dredging operation was conducted offshore in the 1990s.
The gold rush gave many communities in Alaska their start. Gold was discovered in Fairbank, for example, in 1902, and it became an important supply post as well as a center of mining activity where major operations continue today.
The word it in the second paragraphmeans most nearly the same as
A. nome
B. fortune
C. beach
D. gold
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin "...gold was later discovered on Nome's Bering Sea beaches, where it is still found today."
Đáp án D.