1 Choose the correct answers. THE SNOW WINTER OF 1880-1881

1 The winter of 1880-1881 was one of the worst/most bad winters in American history.

2 The too famous/most famous description of this winter is in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book The Long Winter

3 Several towns were snowbound for months and people didn't have enough/ had too much food to last the winter.

4 The farmers were too slow / slowest to harvest their crops before the snow fell.

5 The Chicago and North Western railway closed because there were were too many / weren't enough men to clear snow from the tracks.

6 The snow was not deep enough/too deep for the cattle to graze and thousands of cows starved to death.

7 The biggest/too big snow drifts were more than 3.5 m deep.

8 On the too cold/coldest days, the temperature fell to -30°C.