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Упр. 2. Читая текст B, найдите в нем ответы на вопросы:
1. How many districts does New York consist of?
2. What are they?
3. How old is New York?
4. Who bought Manhattan from the Indians?
5. How much did the Dutch pay for this island?
6. What was the name of New York at that time?
7. When was New Amsterdam renamed?
8. How long was New York the capital of the U.S.?
9. What are the main sights of New York?
10. What other sights of New York do you know?
NEW YORK
Greater New York consists of five districts. These regions are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.
New York is not a very old city. The first written record of Manhattan goes back to 1524. The Dutch (голландцы) who came to America bought (купили) the island of Manhattan from the Indians for some trinkets (безделушки) to the value of 24 dollars. The Dutch named their colony New Amsterdam.
In 1664 an English fleet under the command of Duke of York captured (захватил) the city and renamed it New York. From 1785 to 1790 New York was the capital of the United States.
The main sights (достопримечательности) in New York are the Statue of Liberty, a present from France for America's centennial (1886), about 200 museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Art Museum, one of the largest (самый большой) philharmonic halls in the world - Carnegie Hall, famous skyscrapers (небоскреб) - the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, the famous Times Square, and so on.
ТЕКСТ С
Упр. 3. Читая текст С, догадайтесь о значении подчеркнутых слов.
STREETS OF NEW YORK
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New York is the city which grows (растет) upwards. The result is tall (высокие) buildings called skyscrapers. The tallest building in New York is the Empire State Building.
The plan of the city is very simple (простой). All avenues go north (север) and south (юг) and they are wider (шире) than the streets. All the streets except Broadway run north and south, east and west. There are eleven avenues and about three hundred streets in New York. The streets are much narrower (уже) than the avenues. Broadway and the Fifth Avenue are the most famous streets in New York.
Americans do not give (дают) the names of their famous people to the streets of the city. They call them by numbers, for example (например) – Second Street, First Avenue and so on. All the streets to the east or west of the Fifth Avenue have the name «East» or «West» before the number, for example, East 41st Street, West 53rd Street an so on.
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