Dudo que ( es / sea ) mejor la vida en la ciudad que en el campo.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
sea
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1. Ce sont leurs familles qui encouragent les filles à devenir obèses. 2. Avoir des enfants obèses est un signe que la famille est une famille nombreuse. 3. La poitrine est un autre élément important de la beauté féminine en Afrique. 4. En Afrique, il existe des compétitions de beauté où on juge le cou des femmes. 5. Lors de ces compétitions, les femmes ne portent que des bijoux en argent.
The transcontinental railroads were built and owned by private companies but financed by the public (with one exception, James J. Hill's Great Northern). The sparseness of population between the Mississippi Valley and California and Oregon (Washington State after 1889) made it impossible to attract private investors to railroads connecting the East and West. Construction was too expensive
Building a mile of track meant bedding 3,000 ties in gravel and attaching 400 rails to them by driving 12,000 spikes. Having built that mile in Utah or Nevada, a railroader had nothing to look forward to but hundreds more miles of scarcely inhabited desert mountains. With no customers along the way, there would be no profits; without profits, no investors. The federal government had political and military interests in binding the Pacific Coast to the rest of the Union, and, in its land, the The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 granted to two companies, the Union Pacific (UP) and the Central Pacific (CP), a right of way 200 feet wide between Omaha, Nebraska, and Sacramento, California. For each mile of track that the companies built, they were to receive, on either side of the tracts, 10 alternate sections (square miles) of the public domain. The result was a belt of land 40 miles wide, laid out like a checkerboard on which the UP and the CP owned half the squares. The railroads sold the land to provide the money for construction and created customers in the buyers. Or they used their vast real estate as collateral against which to borrow cash from banks. In addition, depending on the terrain, the government lent the two companies between $16,000 and $48,000 per mile of track at bargain interest rates. In the second paragraph, the term public domain means a. inherited property. b. land owned by the government. c. unusable land. d. uncharted territory.
Reservoir:
a. to save a place or time b. "goodbye" in French c. an artificial lake d. to make like new