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3. Answer the following questions.

1. What is the capital of the USA?

2. When was it founded?

3. Where is the capital situated?

4. What differs Washington from other cities of the USA?

5. What is the Library of USA Congress famous for?

6. What is the Pentagon?

7. Where does the President of the USA work and live?

8. Where does the Congress of the USA seat?

9. Why is Washington the most important city of the USA?

10. What are the places of interest in Washington?

4. Say whether each of the following sentences is true or false. Correct the false sentences.

1. Washington was founded in 1793.

2. Pentagon is a huge and the richest hotel where famous people stay for a night.

3. In 1800 Congress moved to the new capital.

4. The Congress seats in the White House.

5. The total area of the District of Columbia is 10 square kilometers.

6. There are many parks full of trees and flowers there.

7. Washington is the headquarter of the Pentagon.

8. The capital of the USA is named in honour of the 2nd President George Washington.

9. The Library of the USA is famous for modern scientific equipment.

10. Washington differs from other cities of The USA.

11. The library of the USA contains more than 3 mln books.

12. There are no skyscrapers in the city.

5. Put the missing words and translate the text.

Washington is the ... of the United States. It is also one of the country's most beautiful and historic ... and the site of many of its most popular tourist ... . The capital is ... to the American people as the symbol of their country's ..., history and democratic traditions. Many visitors to Washington enjoy the rich and varied ... of the city's buildings and monuments. But a law ... the height of buildings in the city. As a result, Washington - unlike most other large cities - has no ... .Visitors tour the city's many ..., which together ... the world's largest collection of items from America's past. At the same time Washington ... problems common to all cities, including crime, drug abuse, ... and traffic jams.

(limits, cities, architecture, poverty, skyscrapers, capital, faces, attractions, unity, important, house, museums)

6. Read more information about Washington. Five different washingtons

There are at least five different Washingtons and each has its supporters who earnestly believe that theirs is the only true Washington.

The first is Washington-the-Capital, an official city of great monuments and memorials. This is the Washington of the Federal reservation.

The second is Old Washington, the sleepy Southern town of ceiling fans and sleeping porches. Old Washington is dying off now.

The third is Washington-the-Town-Terror, "The Crime Capital of the World", a horror of racial mixing producing violence too terrible to speak of.

The fourth Washington is University-Washington, the north-west section of pleasant homes on tree-lined streets, where almost everyone is well-educated, and has a high income.

The fifth Washington is largely low-income and low-educated, thought the city has a relatively large number of professional and middle-to-upper-income families. But the majority of population lives in badly overcrowded row houses.

Rock Creek Park is a symbol of the town's deep division. It is a wooded area of 2,000 acres that runs from the centre of the city to its northern border.