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CHAPTER ONE

Unit 1

GENERAL FACTS ABOUT THE USA
GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION
CLIMATE

1. Read and memorize the following words, word-
combinations and word groups:

hihgland - нагір’я
lowland - низина, долина
prairie - прерія
valley - долина
typhoon - тайфун
damp - вологий

2. Read and translate the text:

The USA is situated in the central part of the North American
continent. Its western coast is washed by the Pacific Ocean and its
eastern coast - by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
The USA is separated from Canada in the north by the forty-
ninth parаllel and the Great Lakes and from Mexico in the south
by a line following the Rio Grande River and continuing across the
highland to the Pacific Ocean.
The USA is a federal republic of fifty states and the District of
Columbia. The state of Alaska is separated from the rest of the
USA by Canada and its western end is only 30 kilometers from
Russia. Hawaii, which became the fiftieth state in 1959, is in the
Pacific Ocean, halfway between the Continents of America and
Asia.
The total area of the USA is over 9 million square kilometers.