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A. What do you know about New York? Read the text and check your answers. 
NEW YORK

THE BIG MULTI-COLOURED APPLE

New York City goes by the nickname ‘the Big Apple’ and is York is famous for its
also commonly referred to as ‘the city that never sleeps’ architecture and it’s
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and ‘the capital of the world’. They are appropriate names difficult to miss the huge
for a city that is the global centre for finance, media, art skyscrapers, especially
and fashion. New York is truly a multicultural city and all the famous ones, like The
countries and cultures are represented. If you ask any Empire State Building or
one of the 60 million American and foreign tourists who The Chrysler Building.
visit New York every year, they’ll tell you it’s a place full of Red is for the dragons and
life, energy and, of course, colour. lanterns that fill the streets
Green is for the 18,000 trees that stand in Central Park. of Chinatown, especially
The park is right in the middle of Manhattan and it’s during the Chinese New
3.41km² of grassy areas, lakes, ice rinks, walking tracks Year. About 18% of New
and even a wildlife sanctuary. It is the place where New York’s Chinese population
Yorkers go to escape their busy city lives. 37.5 million lives in this small area of
people visit it every year and people usually recognise Manhattan. During the
it because it has appeared many times in films and TV New Year festivities, which
series. take place at the end of
Yellow is for the 13,000 cabs that service the city and January or the beginning
have become an icon of New York. But hailing a yellow of February, the streets
cab is just one of the ways to get around the city. The of Chinatown come alive with parades which feature
subway, which is one of the largest underground railway impressive dragon dances.
systems in the world, is used by 1.6 billion people every Blue is for the famous Blue Note Jazz Club. Many famous
year. There are buses, trains, and people on bicycles are musicians have played there over the years: Ray Charles,
also very common. In fact, more than half the households Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan to name just a few.
in New York don’t own a car, which just shows how Obviously, it is not the only place of entertainment in
successful the public transport system is. New York. There are many museums, clubs and theatres.
Brown is for ‘brownstones’, the typical New York You can visit MoMa (the Museum of Modern Art) and see
buildings made from a reddish-brown stone that are masterpieces by Picasso and Matisse, and nobody should
common in the older neighbourhoods of the city. New visit New York without catching a Broadway show.

B. Read the text again. What do the numbers below refer to?

a. 60 million b. 18,000 c. 37.5 million

d. 13,000 e. 1.6 billion f. 18%

C. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. Where do the people who live in New York go to get away from city life?
2. Why is Central Park well-known?
3. What evidence is there to prove that New York has got a good transport system?
4. What is a brownstone?
5. When are the Chinese New Year festivities?
6. What sort of entertainment can you find in New York?

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