The economic expansion prompted by the Second World War triggered a spectacular population boom in the West. Of course, the region was no stranger to population booms. Throughout much of its history, western settlement had been characterized by spurts, rather than by a pattern of gradual and steady population growth, beginning with the gold and silver rushes of the 1850's and 1860's. The decade after the First World War - the 1920's - witnessed another major surge of people pouring into the West, particularly into urban areas. But the economic depression of the 1930's brought this expansion to a halt; some of the more sparsely settled parts of the region actually lost population as migrants sought work in more heavily industrialized areas. By 1941 when the United States entered the Second World War and began to mobilize, new job opportunities were created in the western part of the nation.

If the expansion of industries, such as shipbuilding and aircraft manufacturing, was most striking on the pacific coast, it also affected interior cities like Denver, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City. Equally dramatic were the effects of the establishment of aluminum plants in Oregon and Washington and the burgeoning steel industry in Utah and California. The flow of people into these areas provided an enormous impetus to the expansion of the service industries - banks, health care services and schools. Although strained to the limit by the influx of newcomers, western communities welcomed the vast reservoir of new job opportunities. At the same time, the unprecedented expansion of government installations in the West, such as military bases, created thousands of new civilian openings. As land had served as a magnet for western migrants in the late nineteenth century, so wartime mobilization set in motion another major expansion of population. Indeed, it could be said that the entire western United States became a giant boomtown during the Second World War. This was especially true of California. Of the more than eight million people who moved into the West in the decade after 1940, almost one-half went to the Pacific coast. In fact, between 1940 and 1950, California's population surged by more than three million people.

According to the passage, the depression of the 1930's caused which of the following?

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• The word "symptoms" is closest in meaning to ___________.

• All of the following were mentioned in the passage as detriments to women in the business world EXCEPT .................

• What does the author imply in the last sentence of the passage?

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• Which of the following is NOT true about the tea production process?

• The word “surreptitiously” is closest in meaning to ...........

• According to the passage, creatures in the desert ...........

• According to the passage, some Americans choose to live in the country because ___.

• If you have a desire to travel, when does the writer suggest that you do it?

• The best way to protect children from improper material is .............

• According to the passage, a fair division of labour is that ...................

• It can be inferred from the passage that limestone deposits serve as the basis of .................

• Satellites are used to .............

• During the procedure described in paragraph 3, when clay particles are placed into water they ______.

• Learning to write is ..........

• The expression “traditional methods of teaching” is the first sentence refers to ______

• What is the main idea of the passage?

• Algae remnants found in Africa are________.

• According to the passage, how are ants guided by trail pheromones?

• It can be inferred from the passage that social workers, employers, and politicians concern themselves with the study of learning because they need to ______.

• The word “itself” in paragraph 3 refers to ________.