Н.А. Зелинская ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

Exercises
I. Answer the questions on the text:
1. How many states does the USA consist of?
2. Where is the capital of the USA situated?
3. Where is the USA situated?
4. What is the area of the USA?
5. What is the population of the USA?
6. How was the nation founded?
7. When was the Declaration of Independence issued?
II. Give Russian equivalents of the following expressions:
Comprising, mostly, possesses several territories, issued the Declaration of
Independence,
modern feminism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, to tend greatly to
value socioeconomic achievement, social mobility, states' rights, to adopt,
scholars, to identify, significant differences, to play a key role in attracting
immigrants.
III. Complete the text with the words and word combinations:
1. The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United
States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional
republic comprising _________.
2. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its 48
contiguous states and Washington, D.C., __________.
3. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada
__________.
4. At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km 2 ) and with about 307
million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest
__________.
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