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上海市北虹高级中学2018-2019学年高一下学期英语期中考试试卷(音频暂未更新)
In the 19th century, millions of European went to the USA because they wanted to find a better life. Many of them couldn't find work in cities like New York. The people, called settlers, travelled west through the mountains on the Oregon Trail.
Some of these people hoped to find gold in California. The journey sometimes took more than one year. There are a lot of films, called Westerns, about the settlers on the trail. In most of the film, we see the Native Americans (American Indians) attacking the settlers, and the "Indians" killing many white people.
In fact, most of them were very helpful to the settlers.
It is true that the settlers' journey was extremely difficult. Many of them walked 3, 200 kilometers, the whole length of the trail. They had wagons(马车), but the wagons were often too full, so people could not travel in them. The people were very poor and many did not even have shoes-they walked the whole trail barefoot in extremely cold temperature.
More than 50, 000 people, including many women and children, died on the trail. A lot of people died from illnesses like cholera, because the drinking water wasn't clean. Many people died under the wheels of wagons, for example, and from accidental gunshots.
A. They hoped they could make more money.
B. So they left and went to find farmland in the west.
C. Many parents also had to carry their small children.
D. But the truth is that the native Americans were not the biggest problem for the settlers.
E. Many of them lost their home.
F. There were also a lot of accidents.
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