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I. Answer the following questions:

  1. Why is the USA the world's foremost economic and military power?

  2. Why is the United States of America an ethnically and racially diverse country today?

  3. Why is the USA compared to a salad bowl rather than a melting pot today?

  4. How is social class generally described in the USA?

  5. What kinds of organizations and social groups are there in the USA? by?

  6. Which innovations in the modern world were either first invented in the United States or first widely adopted by Americans?

  7. What brought about the popularization of automobiles in America?

  8. What is the only locality in the United States where more than half of all households do not own a car?

  9. How can you prove that the US has the most highly-developed mass media in the world?

  10. How many commercial radio stations are there in America?

  11. What per cent of the American population are online?

  12. Why is Hollywood so famous?

  13. What did Alfred Hitchcock once say about films?

  14. What four items are considered to be “the most American” ones?

  15. What kind of sports was regarded as the national one since the late 19th century?

  16. Where and when did the first match take place?

  17. What are the other three leading professional team sports?

  18. How many billions does American music industry make in a year?

  19. When is the Gramophone Awards or Grammy usually held?

  20. Why and when was the American Music Awards (AMA's) launched?

  21. Does America still remain the dream? Why?

  1. Complete the following sentences:

    1. America's gross domestic product accounts……….

    2. Today the United States of America is an ethnically and racially diverse country as result… (Overall Americans worked ……

    3. While the average worker in Denmark……

    4. Many American cities ……

    5. American culture ………

    6. Automobiles play……

    7. The switchover to digital…….

    8. By the early 1920`s, Hollywood …….

    9. Boxing and horse racing ………

    10. The Grammys are considered………

III. State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.

1. The USA is the world's foremost economic and military power, without global interests.

2. America is an ethnically and racially diverse country as result of large-scale immigration from many different countries.

3. American society and its culture are perfect.

4. The average work week in the US for those employed full-time was 42.9 hours long with 30% of the population working more than 40 hours a week.

5. Automobiles play a great role in American culture, whether it is in the mundane lives of private individuals or in the areas of arts and entertainment.

6. New York City is the only locality in the United States where even everybody has his own car.

7. Movies don’t let people to live their full life.

8. Hollywood is still world-renowned for its celebrities, and glitzy inhabitants.

9. Music is offered as a field of study at many of America's universities.

10. America isn’t a country, where the dreams can become true.

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