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1. The center of financial markets is …
a) Los Angeles b) New York c) Detroit
2. The main centre of the automobile industry is …
a) Dallas b) San Diego c) Detroit
The country’s most important cotton-producing state is
a) California b) Virginia c) Alaska
What city is called “Big Apple”?
a) Chicago b) Las Vegas c) New York
5. … is the railroad and grain center of the nation. It is also called “Cross-Roads of the Continent”. It is served by 19 trunk lines and handles 50,000 freight cars daily.
a) Chicago b) Philadelphia c) Los Angeles
6. The 1st national capital of the USA (1800) was …
a) Philadelphia b) Washington c) New York
7. … is famous for its ice-cream, pepper-pot soup and a sausage-like product called scrapples // кушанье из свинины с кукурузной крупой.
a) Philadelphia b) Los Angeles c) Washington
It is a city of many beaches, with surfers, volleyball players, and people getting tan.
a) Los Angeles b) Las Vegas c) Chicago
9. … is like an “adult Disneyland”, a fantasy oasis in the Nevada desert. It is a center of gambling in America.
a) Detroit b) Las Vegas c) Florida
10. … has the largest Chinese neighborhood – Chinatown, a genuinely ethnic area
a) San Francisco b) Chicago c) New York
11. … is a wonderful city. You can hardly find a park, a square or an open area in it without a monument or memorial.
a) Washington b) Los Angeles c) Miami
12. … is the world’s car manufacturing center, giving … its nickname the Motor City.
a) California b) Detroit c) Dallas
13. The city is surrounded on three sides by water. Don’t leave … without seeing the symbol of the city – the Golden Gate Bridge – a beautiful orange suspension bridge.
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a) San Francisco b) Chicago c) California
Match the English words with their equivalents and learn the words by heart.
1 urban dwellers 2 population 3 Liberty Island 4 manufacturing 5 to earn 6 advertising 7 publishing 8 adult 9 haulage center 10 to handle 11 domestic trade 12 to converge 13 freighter 14 bulk commodity 15 bulky 16 scrapples 17 monument 18 to get tan 19 gambling 20 headquarter 21 suspension bridge 22 neighborhood
a) реклама b) взрослый c) центр перевозок, вывоза d) население e) внутренняя торговля f) памятник g) сходиться в одной точке h) громоздкий, объемистый i) центр, штаб j) городские жители k) кушанье из свинины с кукурузной крупой l) остров свободы m) грузовое судно, грузоотправитель o) азартный p) зарабатывать q) производство r)насыпной груз s) подвесной мост t) район u)издательское дело v) загорать w) управлять, торговать, регулировать
