Question

QA. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
(10 Marks)
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 mid-air in his specially 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. 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.
1. This passage is mainly about -
a. the visitors to the Mount Rushmore monument.
b, the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore monument.
c. the creation of the Mount Rushmore monument.
2. According to the passage, Borglum's son -
a. is dead.
b. was a president
C. spent a million dollars.
3. The word " these " in third sentence refers to -
a. faces
b. dollars
c. times
4. The men who Borglum hired were -
a. trained sculptors.
b. Black Hills volunteers.
5 borglum mixtures for filling crackers was-
a. very expensive .
b. both at the black Hills miners .
c. invented by the sculptor himself .
please tell me the answers. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. answer.(a)the visitors to the mount rushmore monument .

2.answer. was a president.

3.times

4.black hills volunteers.

5.both at the black hills miners.

Answer 2

Answer:

this passage is mainly about