Question

Every year about two million people visit Mount Rushmore, where the faces of

four U.S. presidents were carved in granite by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his son, the

late Lincoln Borglum. The creation of Mount Rushmore monument took 14 years – from

1927 to 1941- and nearly a million dollars. These were times when money was difficult to

come by and many people were jobless. To move the more than 400,000 tons of rock,

Borglum hired laid-off workers from the closed- down mines in the Black Hills area. He

taught these men to dynamite, drill, carve, and finish the granite as they were hanging in

midair in hisspecially devised chairs, which had many safety features. Borglum was proud

of the fact that no workers were killed or severely injured during the years of blasting and

carving.

During the carving, many changes in the original design had to be made to keep

the carved heads free of large fissures that were uncovered. However, not all the cracks

could be avoided, so Borglum concocted a mixture of granite dust, white lead, and linseed

oil to fill them.

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Every winter, water from melting snows gets into the fissures and expands as it

freezes, making the fissures bigger. Consequently, every autumn maintenance work is

done to refill the cracks. The repairers swing out in space over a 500- foot drop and fix

the monument with the same mixture that Borglum used to preserve this national

monument for future generations.

On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions.

A. This passage is mainly about

(i) the visitors to the Mount Rushmore monument.

(ii) four American Presidents.

(iii) the creation of the Mount Rushmore monument. answer
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Answer 1

Answer:

The creation of Mount Rushmore monument took 14 years – from 1927 to 1941- and nearly a million dollars. These were ... According to the passage Borglum's son.