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(1) Making your way through the mazes of the Coast Range to the summit of any of the inner peaks or passes opposite San Francisco, in the clear springtime, the grandest and most telling of all California landscapes is outspread before you. At your feet lies the great Central Valley glowing golden in the sunshine, extending north and south farther than the eye can reach, one smooth, flowery, lake-like bed of fertile soil. Along its eastern margin rises the mighty Sierra, miles in height, reposing like a smooth, cumulous cloud in the sunny sky, and so glorious colored, and so luminous, it seems to be not clothed with light, but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city. . . .

(2) When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day, from the summit of Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley, but little trampled or plowed as yet, was one furred, rich sheet of golden compositae,* and the luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory. Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods of light, seeing the sunbursts of morning among the icy peaks, the noonday radiance on the trees and rocks and snow, the flush of the alpenglow, and a thousand dashing waterfalls with their marvelous abundance of irised** spray, it still seems to me above all others the Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen.

(3) The Sierra is about 500 miles long, 70 miles wide, and from 7,000 to nearly 15,000 feet high. In general views no mark of man is visible on it, nor anything to suggest the richness of the life it cherishes, or the depth and grandeur of its sculpture. . . . Nevertheless, glaciers are still at work in the shadows of the peaks, and thousands of lakes and meadows shine and bloom beneath them, and the whole range is furrowed with canyons to a depth of from 2,000 to 5,000 feet, in which once flowed majestic glaciers, and in which now flow and sing a band of beautiful rivers.
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*compositae: daisies
**irised: rainbowed

Which statement best expresses the central idea, or claim, in this passage?

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The Sierra Nevada is a magnificent mountain range, and the view of it from California’s Coast Range is spectacular.

In every way, the Sierra Nevada is far superior to other mountain chains.

The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range that contains many glaciers.

The Sierra Nevada, which means “Snowy Range of Mountains” in Spanish, should be called “Mountain Range of Light.”

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