Why is California called the Golden State?

admin2018-06-30  41

问题 Why is California called the Golden State?
  
California is called the Golden State not because of the gold found at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, but because winter rains make the hills green until the dry air of summer turns them a golden hue.
Few remember Charlie Taylor, a mechanic at the brothers’ bicycle business in Dayton, Ohio. Yet it was Taylor who, by building an internal-combustion engine out of aluminum castings rather than iron ones, created a device both light enough and powerful enough to lift Orville and Wilbur into the sky.

选项 A、Charlie was a mechanic for bicycle.
B、Charlie built a new type of engine for the flight.
C、The iron castings are very powerful.
D、Orville and Wilbur flew into the sky.

答案B

解析 原文讲述了莱特兄弟的机械师为了减轻飞机的自重发明了铝铸缸体的发动机的故事。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/100O777K
0

最新回复(0)