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1 Listen to the passage about Native Americans.Mark the pauses that you hear.The first sentence has been done for you.

No one really knows exactly |when the first people arrived |in what we now know as California. || It is likely that Native Americans moved to California at least fifteen thousand years  ago.Scientists  believe  that  these  settlers  crossed  the  Bering  Strait  by  a  land bridge which existed in prehistoric times.In the 16th century,the native people suffered greatly after the arrival of the Europeans.Thousands of them were killed or forced into slavery.In addition,many died from the diseases brought by the Europeans.However, some survived these terrible times,and today there are more Native Americans living in California than in any other state of America.