[02:21.39]Passage One
[02:22.62]By 1862 telegraph communications linked San Francisco with eastern cities
[02:29.34]and by 1869,the first transcontinental railroad connected the Pacific coast with the Atlantic seaboard.
[02:37.33]Today San Francisco has a population of almost three million.
[02:42.27]It is the financial center of the West
[02:45.17]and serves as the terminus for trans-Pacific steamship lines and air traffic.
[02:51.07]The port of San Francisco
[02:53.03]which is almost eighteen miles long with forty-two pier
[02:57.42]handles between five and six million tons of cargo annually.
[03:02.54]And now,if you will look to your right
[03:05.33]you should just be able to see the east section of the Golden Gate Bridge
[03:10.22]The bridge,which is more than one mile long
[03:13.27]spans the harbor from San Francisco to Marin County and the Red Wood Highwall
[03:18.92]It was completed in 1937 at a cost of thirty-two million dollars
[03:23.96]and is still one of the largest suspension bridges in the world.
[03:27.51]11. How long is the Golden Gate Bridge?
[03:31.27]12. What is the population of San Francisco today?
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