Exercise 4. Match the words as they are used in the UNIT

Exercise 3. Make these sentences negative.

Exercise 2. Match the cities and region and their main characteristics.

Exercise 1. Answer the questions.

1. What are the shorter names of the United States of America?

2. What is the aria of the USA?

3. Where is the USA located?

4. What countries does it border on?

5. How many separate parts does it consist of? What are they?

6. How many states does it consist of?

7. What is the capital of the USA?

8. Into which three branches is the gov­ernment divided?

9. What are the main political parties in the USA?

10. Who is the head of the government?

11. When are presidential elections held?

12. When was the US Constitution adopted?

13. What is the other name of the ten amendments to the Constitution?

14. How many houses does The Congress of the United States consist of?

15. What is the Supreme Court?

1. Taxes

2. Pennsylvania

3. Illinois

4. Iowa

5. Nebraska

6. California

7. New York

8. Chicago

9. Los Angeles

10. New Orleans

11. Huston

12. Philadelphia

13. Detroit

A. coal industry

B. famous for growing corn and wheat

C. agriculture

D. Hollywood

E. world’s leading motor car producer

F. financial business centre

G. oil industry

H. oil refining and NASA space research centre

I. cotton industry centre

J. farming

K. deals in meat processing

L. shipping commercial centre

M. famous for its fruits

1. The United States of America is the biggest country in the world.

2. The USA occupies 13,363,123 square kilometers.

3. The USA lies in the central part of the South American Continent.

4. The USA is washed by the Indian Ocean.

5. The USA borders on Peru and Brazil.

6. The USA consists of five separate parts.

7. There are 60 states in the USA.

8. The capital of the USA is New York.

9. Chicago deals in cotton industry.

10. Detroit is a space research centre.

11. The United States of America is a parliamentary monarchy.

12. The US gov­ernment is divided into five branches.

13. There are ten main political parties in the USA.

14. The US President is elected for a ten-year term.

15. Presidential elections are held every year on first Monday in September.

16. The form of US government is based on the Bill of Rights.

17. The Senate represents the population according to its distrib­ution among the states.

18. All states have different electoral requirements.

19. Each of the fifty states of the USA has its own President.

1. square

2. central

3. federal

4. economic

5. geographical

6. for

7. business

8. meat

9. oil

10. space

11. motor car

12. parliamentary

13. political

14. head of

15. four-year

16. presidential

17. executive

18. electoral

19. foreign

20. governmental

21. Supreme

22. judicial

23. judicial

A. part

B. elections

C. example

D. refining

E. doctrine

F. policy

G. requirements

H. processing

I. kilometers

J. practice

K. research centre

L. development

M. producer

N. term

O. Court

P. party

Q. area

R. body

S. republic

T. department

U. centre

V. position

W. state

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