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NEW YORK

1. New York is the largest metropolis in the United States. Officially it is City of New York, and popularly it is called New York City. It was founded by the Dutch more than three hundred years ago at the mouth of the Hudson River. In 1626 Dutch colonists set up here the first settlement, named New Amsterdam. They bought Manhattan Island from Indians for 24 dollars and a barrel of rum. The Americans say that it was the best business deal ever made in New York. In 1664 the colony was captured by British fleet under Duke of York and renamed New York. In the 18th century New York grew into the largest city of the USA.

2 New York is difficult to describe. You can say anything you like about it and always be right; if you listen to different people talking about it, they can each describe a different town. For some, it's a centre of art, music and theatre; for others, a city of finance and politics.

First of all, New York is the greatest seaport in the USA. More than half the trade of the USA goes through the city. It is also a great financial centre where "money-making" is the main law of life. It is the symbol of big business and its Wall Street has become a nickname for big monopolies all over the world. Economic and financial power of the US is concentrated in the sky-scrapers of Wall Street, in the world's exchange, in the banks, among them the oldest in the city. The Bank of New York was founded in 1784. New York is the leading textile centre of the country and its clothes industry. It has a considerable printing industry and many book-shops. It is also undoubtedly one of the centres of social and spiritual life of America.

3 Now New York includes five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond. The population of New York now is 8 million people - 16 million if you include the suburbs and another 4 million come to the city to work here but live elsewhere. Among the inhabitants of York one can meet people of almost all nations. The citizens speak seventy-five different languages. It is even called "Modern Babylon".

4. New York is a city of striking social contrasts. It is a place where most of millionaires live and at the same time a greater proportion of New Yorkers live at a lower level than the average for the US.

5. New York is not just one city, but many cities which crowd together in one place. There are the busiest cities which die each day at five o'clock, neon pleasure cities whose bars and cinemas are full with noisy crowds and sad cities where no trees grow. New York is all of these and more.

Пояснения к тексту:

Stock Exchange - фондовая биржа

borough (амер.) - городской район

elsewhere - (где-нибудь) в другом месте

to die – затихать

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What is the population of York if you include the suburbs?

1. The population of New York is 8 million people if you include the suburbs.

2. The population of New York is 4 million people if you include the suburbs.

3. The population of New York is 16 million people if you include the suburbs.