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---The Middle Atlantic states are highly industrialized ---the South is newly developed industrial region
---the South’s cheaper labour
---the growth of the South’s iron and steel industry ---oil refining and natural gas are the industry of great importance in Texas
II. The Main Cities
1. Washington D.C.
---Washington ---Washington is the headquarters of all the branches of the American federal system
---named the District of Columbia and Washington
---built in 1792, rebuilt in 1814 ---named it “White House”
---The National Mall
---National Gallery of Art ---Air and Space Museum
---Museum of National History
---the United States produces nearly 50% of the corn in the world
---the Corn Belt ---Wheat is America’s most important food crop. ---Cotton is a leading commercial crop in the South ---The Great Plains are a great animal farming area ---Dairy farming can be found in New England, the Midwest the Pacific Northwest ---The South is one of America’s leading producers or citrus fruit ---there still exist some problems
V. American Industry ---the United States ranks first in the production of crude steel in the world
Second in the production of passenger cars in the world
---65 Museums
---5 zoos ---many theatres and concert halls ---the fantastic skyscrapers
---The Statue of Liberty
---standing magnificently on Liberty Island in New York Harbour
third in the production of commercial vehicles in the world fourth in the production of chemicals in the world
---The Midwest is the nation’s leading centre of heavy industry
IV. American Agriculture
---the variety of climate and topography of the United States makes it possible
for the people to grow many kinds of crops ---Machines are used to do almost all the farm work
the Conference building the General Assembly Building
the Secretariat Building
---United Nations Day on 24 October each year
3. Chicago
---the second largest city in population ---the largest industrial city in the country ---Black metallurgical industry and meat processing are assumed to be the head in the U.S ---the centre of industry, transportation, commerce and finance in the Midwest area ---having a glorious revolutionary tradition ---May 1st every year as an International Labour Day ---March 8th every year as an International Working Women’s Day
---Metropolitan Museum of Art ---collections span the history of world art from ancient civilizations to the present day and include hundreds of world famous masterpieces ---Bronx Zoo ---there is one of the largest collections in America ---Greenwich Village ---its old houses have sheltered many famous artists and writers.
---presented to the US by France, which is 152-ft figure raised on a 150-ft pedestal ---Wall Street
---the world famous New York Stock Exchange
---the symbol of American monopoly capitalism ---World Trade Center ---the tallest building in the U.S.and the world ---destroyed in “9.11” by terrorists ---Broadway ---a symbol of the New York theatre ---Rockefeller Center ---the world’s largest privately-owned business and entertainment complex ---19 buildings, which joined by a network of underground concourses lined with
---the main streets lined with a fascinating array of little craft and curio shops
---Chinatown ---The United Nations Headquarters
---including four main buildings: Hammerskjold Library
II. The Economic System of the United States ---The United States has a free-market economy with a dominant private sector
---the government has always been an important element in the American economy ---the American economy is characterized by a high degree of monopoly
4. Los Angel
---becoming an aviation centre
---growing into an important electronic centre
---the base of the film industry –Holly wood
5. Philadelphia
---The Lincoln Memorial
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2. New York City ---New York City
---the largest city and the chief port of the United States
---having five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queen’s Brooklyn and Richmond
---Washington Monument stands in the middle of the mall
---The Museum ---a Skylab Orbital Workshop which visitor may enter. ---also included dozens of airplanes and spacecraft, missiles and rockets
---Thomas Jefferson was the first president inaugurated there ---Capitol Hill---the seat of the U.s. government in Washington D.C.