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A．To argue that a mom direst route to the West could have boon taken,
B．To identify a historically significant mountain range in the Went,
C．To point out the legation of n serious train accident,
D．To give an example of an obstacle faced by the central pacifi

A．more than the enormous amount of
B．better than most the enormous number of
C．better than most the enormous amount of
D．fewer than the number of