... failed the test, _ he studied hard A In spite of B as C although D despite 48 Glass is usually sand A made from B made of C made in D made by 49 Up to now, I a lot of information ... forty-ninth state of the United States in 1959, was bought from Russia in 1867 The price paid to the Russian government for this huge piece of land was $ 7,200,000 Secretary of State Seward arranged ... arranged the treaty and the purchase Because people in the United States at that time knew little About Alaska, many of them did not approve of purchasing it Some jokingly called Alaska ”Seward’s...