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c) The_____ of the state is the President.

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D) The Missouri River is the longest_____.

E) The _____consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which together form the United States Congress.

F) The power of the _____is vested in the President of the United States.

Test

1. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: … is regarded as the birthday of the United States as a free and independent nation. It is a day of picnics and patriotic parades, a night of concerts and fireworks.

Independence Day

Memorial Day

Christmas Day

Thanksgiving Day

2. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: … is a federal holiday observed the last Monday of May. It originally honored the people killed in the American Civil War.

Columbus Day

Memorial Day

Christmas Day

Thanksgiving Day

3. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: The federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader observed on the third Monday in January is called…

Thanksgiving Day

Memorial Day

Christmas Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

4. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: … is a federal holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.

Thanksgiving Day

Memorial Day

Christmas Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

5. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: The United States of America is

bigger than Canada

bigger than Brazil

bigger than Russia

smaller than Australia

6. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: The President of the USA lives in...

White House Road

Pennsylvania Avenue

Texas Street

Washington Square

7. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: T he flag of the USA is called…

Maple Leaf

Stars and Stripes

Tricolour

Stars and Stripes

8. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: … was the first President of the USA.

Abraham Lincoln

George Washington

John Kennedy

Walt Disney

9. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: At the time of the American Civil War, … was president.

Robert E Lee

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Nelson Rockefeller

10. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: President John F Kennedy was assassinated in...

New York, New York

Washington DC

Los Angeles, California

Dallas, Texas

11. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: …was the first person to set foot on the Moon.

Neil Armstrong

John Glenn

Jim Lowell

Thomas Jefferson

12. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to commemorate…

the discovery of America by Columbus

the victory of the first colonists over the Indians in 1602

the first harvest of Plymouth colony in 1621

the marriage of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

13. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: America has often been called…

a melting-pot

non-English speaking immigrants

Ulster

the Emerald Isle

14. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: The capital of the country is …

New York

Los Angeles

Washington, DC.

London

15. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: The Niagara Falls are …

the most powerful waterfalls in North America

the deepest lakes in the USA

the highest mountains in the USA

volcanoes in North America

16. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием: The tallest peak in the USA is…

Mount Blackburn

Mount Elbert

Mount McKinley

Mount Whitney

17. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием:

The independence from England was declared in …

18. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием:

Two major parties in the US are …

The Republics and the Socialists

The Democrats and the Socialists

The Conservationists and the Democrats

The Republicans and the Democrats

19. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием:

… was the president who freed the slaves.

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Abrahan Lincoln

Henry Ford

20. Заполните пропуск подходящим по смыслу словом или словосочетанием:

The flag of the United States has …

12 stripes and 49 stars

13 stripes and 50 stars

12 stripes and 51 stars

13 stripes and 51 stars

WASHINGTON

 

Washington is the capital of the United States of America. The city was called after the first President of the United States, General George Washington. Washington is situated on the Potomac River in the District of Columbia (DC). The District of Columbia is outside the jurisdiction of any state and subject only to the control of the Federal Congress.

Now it is a city of two million inhabitants. The federal district is a place of land ten miles square and it does not belong to any other state, but to all the states. The district is named in honor of Columbus, the discoverer of America.

While the capital is named after George Washington, it was not named by him. The first president called it simply "The Federal City", and the name Washington did not come into general use until after his death.

If you are interested in the law-making centre of the US, go to the Capitol, with its great Hall of Representatives and Senate Chamber. There are many places of interest near the Capitol. You can walk around the back of the Capitol and look across Union Square all the way down to the Washington Monument and beyond to the Lincoln Memorial. From the Capitol Pennsylvania Avenue leads off right to the White House. The tourists usually make a tour of the White House to see its rooms and grounds.

The White House, the President's residence, is located in Pennsylvania Avenue. The site was selected by president Washington and the architect was James Hoban.

The cornerstone of the Executive Mansion, as it was originally known, dates from October 1792. The British troops which arrived in Washington in 1814 were indirectly responsible for the name "White House." The building burnt down during the fighting. Later it was painted white to conceal the marks of the fire. But it remained the "Executive Mansion" until the administration of Theodore Roosevelt when "White House" appeared and the term became official.

The largest complex of museums in Washington DC is the Smithsonian Institution, comprising 15 museums with 6,000 employees. It contains more than 134 million items. The most popular museum in numbers of visitors is the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, which opened in July 1976. The total attendance at the Smithsonian is about 24 million per year. The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress (founded 1800) on Capitol Hill. By 1988, it contained 86 million items, including 22 million books and pamphlets.

As America's capital city, Washington represents the governmental and political centre of the country. But it is also a major cultural, historical and economic centre, a city of great natural and monumental beauty.

 

1. Соедините синонимы

to be called after memorial
the District of Columbia Washington
inhabitant James Hoban
The Federal City place
law-making centre to be named in honor of/after
monument complex of museums
the White House man
to be located the Capitol
site DC
architect the Executive Mansion
the Smithsonian Institution to be situated

 


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