III. Read the text carefully, then choose the correct answers.
The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2016 population of 8,537,673 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2). New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States.
Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media and entertainment, art, fashion, research, technology, education, politics, and sports, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world.
New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country’s largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21th century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability, and as a world symbol of freedom and cultural diversity.
1. Which city is the most densely populated in the US?
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2. Which field does New York exerts a significant impact upon?
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3. Was New York City named New Amsterdam in 1624?
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4. When did New York serve as the capital of the US?
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5. Which symbolizes the US and its democracy?
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D. WRITING
I. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first.
1. I’ve never had to wait this long for a bus before.
→ This is
2. “You must stay in bed until next Monday!” the doctor said.
→ The doctor said
3. It took us more than 3 hours to discover the inner Hanoi.
→ We spent
4. No other book is more popular than Dickens’ “David Copperfield”.
→ Dickens’ “David Copperfield” is
5. Watching TV is not as important as doing homework.
→ Doing homework
II. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word in capital.
1. I’m really excited about the upcoming pottery workshop. (FORWARD)
I’m
2. There is no oil and gas left on Earth. (RUN)
The Earth has
3. When I was a child, I usually went to the local park every Saturday afternoon. (GO)
When I was a child,
4. He left school because his mother was sick . (sickness)
Because
5. You shouldn’t have behaved like that. (behave)
I wish .................................................................................................................................................
