III. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, mark the
correct letter A, B, C or D.
SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco lies (1) ............... the coast of northern California. The earliest Europeans to
discover the (2) ............... were led by a Spanish explorer (3) ............... name was Gaspar de Portola.
He first saw it in 1769. Surprisingly, (4) ............... San Francisco Bay is a wonderful natural
harbour, it was discovered by land (5) ............... than by sea.
In 1849, people (6) ............... in San Francisco in their thousands (7) ............... to find gold.
However, it was not the men looking for the gold that got rich. The richest people (8) ............... their
money from owning banks and law firms and they built themselves large houses on one of the hills. This
was (9) ............... as Nob Hill.
Nowadays, tourists are (10) ............... to San Francisco because there they can see famous places
like Chinatown and the Golden Gate Bridge. Many even (11) ............... the short boat trip to the island
of Alcatraz to see the former prison.