2017年高二英语人教版选修8素材：资源链接 Unit1　Alandofdiversity Word版含解析.docVIP

资源链接 San Francisco The Finding and Founding of San Francisco Miwok Indians to the north and the Ohlones to the south lived a peaceful existence before the coming of Europeans.The Kule Loklo Miwok village,re created near the Bear Valley Visitors Center at Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County,provides an insight into their daily life.  With an overland expedition by Don Gaspar de Portola,Europeans first laid eyes on the Bay in 1770.In March 1776,Captain Juan Bautista de Anza founded the Presidio and Mission of asyet unnamed San Francisco.The Spanish presence at the Mission San Francisco de Asis(now Mission Dolores—completed in 1791;the oldest building in the city) and at the Presidio,three miles away,did not amount to much over the succeeding years.The Mexican revolution of 1821 led to the Secularization Act of 1833,ending the Mission Period.Mission Dolores fell into disrepair.Conversion and disease had done much to destroy the culture of the Miwoks and Ohlones;by the early 19th century,native tribes had effectively ceased to exist.  In 1792,British explorer George Vancouver,visiting San Francisco Bay,discovered a protected anchorage east of the Presidio,called Yerba Buena by the Spanish after the sweet smelling grasses growing around the base of what is now Telegraph Hill.Vancouver pitched and left a tent there,creating the nucleus of what became Yerba Buena,a small English speaking community outside Spanish and Mexican authority. In 1846,with the MexicanAmerican war,the Presidio and Yerba Buena came under American control. The Gold Rush  In 1847,Yerba Buena,with a population of about 1000,changed its name to San Francisco.The next January,gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill,which created only a minor stir.It was left to newspaper publisher and merchant Sam Brannan,trying to drum up trade for his Sacramento Street hardware store,to really trigger the Gold Rush.He brandished a bottle of gold pellets in Portsmouth Square and shouted:揋old!Gold!