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California
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San Jose is the second ___ city in California, after Los Angeles.
a. larger
b. large
c. largest
Answer
c
George Lucas has ___ a digital movie studio in Marin County north of San Francisco called "Skywalker Ranch."
a. building
b. built
c. build
Answer
b
The Golden Gate inlet into San Francisco Bay is so narrow and covered with fog, European explorers sailed past it for many years without ___ the bay.
a. discovering
b. discovered
c. discover
Answer
a
Two species of giant Sequoia redwood trees are ___ in California; one in the Sierra Nevada mountains and one along the Pacific coast.
a. find
b. finding
c. found
Answer
c
Yosemite National Park is so popular, the Park Service is planning to require that visitors take an electric bus instead of ___ own cars into the valley to reduce smog and congestion.
a. there
b. their
c. they're
Answer
b
The towns of Santa Cruz and Huntington Beach have been ___ for many years over which is the real "Surf City USA."
a. argued
b. arguing
c. argue
Answer
b
The neoprene wet suit was ___ by a resident of Santa Cruz because the water there is cold but the surfing is good.
a. invented
b. invent
c. inventing
Answer
a
Chinese immigrants were ___ to build the Southern Pacific railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains because the European workers were undisciplined.
a. hire
b. hiring
c. hired
Answer
c
The San Gabriel mountains east of Los Angeles are the ___ growing mountain range in the world, rising about five centimeters a year.
a. fastest
b. faster
c. fast
Answer
a
Forest ___ and earthquakes are as natural to California as tornadoes and snowstorms are to the Midwestern United States.
a. fire
b. fires
c. fired
Answer
b
The tectonic plate Los Angeles sits on is ___ north towards San Francisco at the rate of two centimeters a year.
a. move
b. moving
c. mover
Answer
b
Eighty percent of the venture capital available in the United States for ___ startup companies comes from investors in the Silicon Valley town of Menlo Park.
a. financing
b. finance
c. finaced
Answer
a
Los Angeles ___ a system of aquaducts to bring snowmelt from the mountains of northern California for its water supply.
a. uses
b. using
c. used
Answer
a
Silicon Valley ___ near San Francisco. Silicone Valley is near Hollywood.
a. is
b. was
c. can
Answer
a
Kenny Roberts has his own private road-racing track ___ his back yard near Carmel, California, home of the Laguna Seca raceway.
a. on
b. in
c. into
Answer
b
The Monterey Aquarium has a 1 million gallon aquarium tank, thanks to a Japanese company that ___ the world's largest and thickest window pane.
a. building
b. builder
c. built
Answer
c
If California were a country, its economy would be the eighth ___ in the world.
a. large
b. largest
c. larger
Answer
b
In over 500 suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge since it opened, nobody has ever ___ facing west, towards the Pacific Ocean. Everybody jumps facing the city of San Francisco.
a. jump
b. jumped
c. jumping
Answer
b
The city of Los Angeles is ___ billions of dollars to re-build a mass-transit subway and train system that General Motors dismantled earlier this century.
a. spent
b. spending
c. spend
Answer
b
The artichoke, which is ___ in great abundance near Monterey, is a member of the thistle family.
a. grew
b. grown
c. grew
Answer
b
Every time it is on the ballot, a plan to split California into two or more states gains a ___ percentage of the vote.
a. higher
b. highest
c. high
Answer
a
Much of the gold ___ in California during the Gold Rush of the 1850s financed the Union Army in the Civil War.
a. mine
b. mined
c. mining
Answer
b
Copyright (C) 1997 by Joel Ingulsrud (
joel@thirdculture.com
)
This quiz is part of the
HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes
which is part of
Activities for ESL Students
, a project by
The Internet TESL Journal
.