En route! Quelles règles aident à circuler en ville? Complétez les phrases suivantes.
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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. According to the passage, the transcontinental railroad was built between a. California and Oregon. b. California and Washington. c. Utah and Nevada. d. California and Nebraska.
Readers were shocked by the ________ in the newspaper
a. equivocal b. revelation c. equilibrium
Read the results of this survey, then decide if the sentences that follow it are true or false. Mark V (vrai) or F (faux).
Voici les résultats de notre sondage. 80 % des Français déclarent qu’ils aiment lire mais beaucoup d’entre eux (57 %) n’ont pas le temps pour cela. Les Français déclarent lire 14 livres par an en moyenne mais le nombre de livres lus chaque année varie fortement; par exemple, la moyenne pour les femmes est de 19 livres, pour les hommes de 10, pour les 65 ans et plus et les retraités de 19 et la moyenne pour les moins de 35 ans est de 9 livres. L’auteur contemporain français préféré est Jean d’Ormesson (36 %) devant Marc Lévy (28 %). En tête du classement des auteurs étrangers (foreign) se trouvent Stephen King (39 %) devant Mary Higgins Clark (33 %) et J.K. Rowling (27 %) Les Français se disent surtout fans de romans policiers (45 %) et de livres d’histoire (32 %). Deux Français sur 10 ont déjà lu un livre électronique. 1. Of the French who say they like to read, everyone has time to do so. _______ 2. The French who read the least number of books per year on average are under 35 years old. _________ 3. J.K. Rowling is the most popular of non-French authors in France. _______ 4. The French are particularly fond of detective novels. ________ 5. Only 10 % of the French have read an electronic book. ______