71. Find the equivalents.

Наиболее уважаемый человек в стране; поддержка была необходима; найти общий язык с … ; настало время засесть за работу; развить хорошие отношения с другими нациями; ни один не был беден; делал записи во время заседания; ни одна из сторон не хотела уступать; компромисс, который бы приняло большинство; ни один закон не мог быть принят пока не…; написать совершенно новую конституцию; защищать свои собственные интересы; число представителей каждого штата; творцы конституции США сошлись в четырех вещах.

72. Answer the following questions.

1. Who and when wrote the USA Constitution?

2. Why was George Washington a great hero to most people in the United States?

3. How did he agree to come to Philadelphia? What did he have to do there?

4. What does “the Virginia plan” mean?

5. Who else made a contribution to a development of the Constitution?

6. Why was a special committee formed? What were the results of the committee's work?

7. What other agreements were accepted?

73. Answer the following grammar questions.

a) Выпишите из текста все глаголы в пассивном залоге. Определите временную форму.

б) Подчеркните в тексте все отрицания. Объясните их употребление.

в) Найдите в тексте прилагательные в сравнительной и превосходной степени. Назовите все сравнительные формы для каждого прилагательного:

Adjective, Comparative, Superlative

74. How many semantic parts does the text contain? Give the title to every part of the text.

75. Write an annotation to the text.

• 76. Translate the words to text № 77.

explorer / to explore suspension bridge employ make a good deal spectacular found fleet capture fire a shot swore solemn oath remain bury

77. Read the text and give a small summary.

From the history of New York

The first European explorer who saw Manhattan Island was Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian merchant who was in the service of the French king, Francis I. The date was April, 1524. Today a bridge which carries his name, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, is one of the city’s most impressive sights. It is the longest suspension bridge in the world.

Other Europeans followed Verrazano, most notable Henry Hudson, an Englishman employed by the Dutch East India Company. The mighty Hudson River is named after the navigator who set foot on these shores in 1609.

Even in the days when America is known as the New World, it was a country with a reputation for its spirit of enterprise and the ability of its people to make a good deal. In 626 the Dutch Trade Company bought Manhattan Island from the local Indians for twenty four dollars. It was probably the most spectacular business deal of all times (Today, $24 would not buy one square foot of office space in New York).

Here the Dutch founded their colony and gave it the name New Amsterdam. Forty years later the English fleet under the Duke of York entered the harbour, captured the city without firing a shot and renamed it New York.

During the War for Independence it was the scene of heavy fighting. The English held it until the end of the war in 1783 when it became the first capital of republic – the United States of America. On April 30, 1789 George Washington, the first president of the US, stood on a balcony there and swore a solemn oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

The city grew very quickly. Today’s New York is the greatest contrast possible to the island settled by Dutch in 1624. In 1811 a “city plan” under which straight lines cut through the woods and fields of Manhattan, flattering its hills, burying under the surface its countless little rivers. In a sense, New York is now one of the least historic cities of the world. Practically nothing has remained of Dutch New Amsterdam.