Today San Francisco has a population of almost three million.
It is the financial center of the West
and serves as the terminus for trans-Pacific steamship lines and air traffic.
The port of San Francisco
which is almost eighteen miles long with forty-two pier
handles between five and six million tons of cargo annually.
And now,if you will look to your right
you should just be able to see the east section of the Golden Gate Bridge
The bridge,which is more than one mile long
spans the harbor from San Francisco to Marin County and the Red Wood Highwall
It was completed in 1937 at a cost of thirty-two million dollars
and is still one of the largest suspension bridges in the world.
11. How long is the Golden Gate Bridge?
12. What is the population of San Francisco today?
13. How much did it cost to complete construction of the Golden Gate Bridge?
Passage Two
Mans first real invention
and one of the most important inventions in history,was the wheel
All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it.
The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all invention
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