Long TextExercise 31 of 81

The first real sign of the United States was a close-packed archipelago of buoys marking lobster pots and fishing traps but this was just a prelude to the moment the throng on the deck had been waiting for. The exaggerated sense of occasion that this moment was expected to inspire was heightened by the scowling…

• According to the writer, when New York came into view the immigrants felt
• What distinguished immigrants' homes in America from the ones they had left was