I.

Fill in the blank with the correct word:

1
In __________the peninsula (Alaska) was purchased from Russia.
2
The same year the territory of Hawaii was ....................... to tho Union as
the 50th state.
3
The United States of America is a country of great contrasts and .....................
4.The most ................. aim of these people was to achieve the greatest
amount of independence and self-realization.
II.Complete the sentence with the best answer (a, b or c) according
to the information in the text:
1The United States occupies a favourable geographical position, because the Atlantic
Ocean is of great importance for the country's sea communications with:
a) Asia
b) Australia
c) Europe
2 It is impossible to generalize about the weather, the landscape, or even the way of
life, because the nation occupies
a)
a rather limited area
b)
half of a continent
c) a greater part of Central America
3 Each person who came to America had left his homeland be
cause he wanted
a) to change a place
b) to solve his family problems
c) to have religious freedom
4 Every human being who has ever lived in the United States has been:
a)the descendant of an immigrant
b)a native American
c) an emigrant
5

Since the first European saw the American continent, people

from every country of the world have made:
a)voyages to the New World
b)
their homes in America
c)a fortune
III. Find out whether the statement is true or false according to the information in
the text:
1.
The United States of America is situated in central North America, with
Canada to the North, Mexico to the South, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Pacific
Ocean to the east.
2.
Sometimes when families moved to the west to new farmland their wagons
broke down or they became ill along the way. As the result they changed the route and
turned back to the east.
3.
The usual town of average size in any part of the US gas its own main street
with the same type of stores selling the same products.

Questions:
1. What are the geographical and economic advantages of the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans for the United States?
2. What contrasts and similarities in the American scene surprise foreign
observers?
3. Why is the rural village, typical of many countries in Europe and Asia, almost
unknown in 20th-century America?
4. What is the usual town of average size in the United States?
5. What did the people who came to America, want?
1.The climate of the US is colder than that of Western Europe and North Africa
in the same latitudes, because the main mountain ranges of the country ranges:
a) from east to west
b) from north to south
c) to different directions
2. As compared with the Appalachians, The Rocky Mountains are:
___________________________
3.

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