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California
California is full of natural wonders. Here is Death valley, 282 feet below sea level—the lowest land in the coun try. "General Sherman" can be found in Sequoia National Park. The general is not a soldier, but the world's oldest and biggest tree.
There is a special kind of stargazing you can do in Los Angeles—watching Hollywood movie stars at work. In Los Angeles, too, are California's first "citizens"—fossils of the Ice Age. They were discovered in the tar pits of La Brea one of the richest finds of prehistoric fossils ever unearthed. Ahnost a million years ago, saber tooth tigers, giant sloths and other monsters stumbled into the pits where they were preserved forever in the sticky tar.
Furthere north, on the seacoast, is the Vandenburg Air Base where guided missiles and satellites blast off. You travel quickly in California——from the Ice Age to the Space Age.
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文章像一篇导游宣传文，如数家珍一般介绍了加利福尼业的天然奇景，古老的历史和现代的高利技成果，让人读后有渴望一游之感。此文是非常好的背景剃料。
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加利福尼亚州
加利福尼亚到处是天然奇景。这里有死谷，它低于海平面282英尺，是美国最低的陆地。在塞阔亚国家公园还可以找到“谢尔曼将军”。这位将军不是军人，而是世界上最古老、最大的树。
在落杉矶，你可以进行一种特殊的观星活动——观看好莱坞的电影明星拍电影。洛杉矶还有加利福尼亚最初的“公民”——冰河时代的化石。这些化石是拉布雷亚的沥青坑中发现的。这是已出土的一批极丰富的史前化石。大约一百万年以前，长着剑齿的老虎、巨大的懒猴和其他庞然大物突然跌进坑内，它们在粘胶似的沥青里被永久保存了下来。