III. Translate in written form the last two paragraphs of the text.

IV. Divide the text into logically connected parts, entitle each part and give a short summary of the text, according to your plan.

V. Chose the right word or word-combination:

1. Most Americans are descendants of....

3. Europeans

4. native American Indians

5. Black Americans

2. The majority of early immigrants to the USA came from....

1. Central and South America

2. Asia

3. Europe

3. The largest number came from....

1. Russia

2. Byelorussia

3. England

4. The first immigrants came to the USA....

1. because there were problems in their home countries

2. in search of U. S. relatives

3. as tourists

5. Most of them had... in the USA.

1. an easy life

2. their own business

3. the life full of difficulties and privations.

6. The majority of immigrants to the USA today come from....

1. Australia

2. Latin America

3. Central Europe

VI. Translate the following words, make up the word combinations with some of them:

urban, conditions, to depend on, national, culture, society, local, minority, metropolitan, migration, to inhabit, native, race, rights, demographic, tendency, illegal, to involve, to preserve, density, origin, residential, traditions, archaic, to observe, recently, to vary, genuine, feature, stable, to prevent, to solve, to improve, to increase, expenditure, to settle, slave, mainly.

VII. Write t for true or f for false. Correct the false sentences, translate them.

1. The United States passed many laws to limit immigration before 1880.

2. Many European immigrants came to work in the factories in the East.

3. America needed the talents, spirit, hard work of immigrants to grow.

4. Born Americans probably accept immigrants from similar cultures more easily than immigrants from very different ones.

5. America welcomed immigration before World War II, but after the war, new laws made it harder for refugees to come to the United States.

6. During the Industrial Revolution, about 3.5 million Irish Catholics left poverty and discrimination to work in America.

7. The U. S. government abolished quotas for immigration from non-European nations. Today, most immigrants are from Asian and Latin American countries.

8. The Spanish settled mainly in the Southwest, especially California. They were managers, priests, soldiers.

9. American slave traders captured black Africans and forced them to work on plantations in Alaska.

10. The English were the smallest immigrant group to settle in North America. They were farmers, fishermen, traders.

11. The first British settlement was at St. Augustine, Florida.

12. Columbus discovered North America in 1776.

VШ. Rewrite these sentences, using may, must or can’t. Pay special attention to the tenses.

1. Probably that tower on the cliff is a lighthouse.

2. I don’t believe I lost my suitcase, it was here a minute ago.

3. Perhaps the driver got a fright.

4. Probably you left your bathing things on the beach.

5. I don’t believe they will postpone such an important meeting.

6. You look so pale and worn out. Probably you’re tired.

7. I don’t believe this medicine is a good cure for a cough.

8. I’m sure you are hungry, you’ve had nothing to eat but a sandwich since morning.

9. Perhaps the lorry overturned while going round the bend.

10. I’m sure it’s a delightful place, especially in summer.