IV. UNDERSTANDING THE MAIN POINTS

A. Number the following sentences 1-8, depending on the order in which they appear in the text:

a) The Senate has 100 members with each state having two senators, elected at-large to six-year terms.

b) Home and workplace of the U.S. president is the White House.

c) The largest cities are New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

d) Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León landed on what he called "La Florida".

e) The Columbia flows into the Pacific Ocean.

f) There are fifty-eight national parks and hundreds of other federally managed parks, forests, and wilderness areas.

g) The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.

h) Native American population was greatly reduced by disease and warfare after European contact.

B. Make up sentences of the given words.

1. most, operated, the, for, states, its, has, two-party, history, under, a, united, system, of.

2. supreme, and, and, laws, lower, the, courts, court, overturn, federal, interpret.

3. confirmed, war, military, as, country, world, a, status, power, I, 's, the.

4. united, seaboard, along, thirteen, by, states, was, Atlantic, founded, colonies, located, the, the, British.

5. the, of, an, is, mid-Pacific, state, archipelago, in, the, Hawaii.

V. VOCABULARY FOCUS

A. Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as the following.

1. be close to;

2. a group of islands;

3. to calculate;

4. a half of a sphere;

5. official accepting;

6. to leave;

7. to become known;

8. native;

9. continent;

10. a storm with a violent wind.

B. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases.

1. by far (par.2);

2. explorer (par. 3);

3. forebears (par. 4);

4. Independence (par. 4);

5. defeated (par. 4);

6. permanent (par. 5);

7. commander-in-chief (par. 5);

8. deciduous (par. 6);

9. compose of (par. 8);

10. to host (par. 11).

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