New York City isn’t the biggest city in the world, but it is the biggest city in the United States. Most Americans live in much smaller cities and towns, but almost 8million people live in New York City. Why did so many people come to live in one place?
A look at the city shows us that New York City has a good port（商埠）. The Dutch(荷兰) settlers (new comers) , wanted to use it for business. In 1626, the Dutch paid the Indians twenty-four dollars for the island of Manhattan. Its Dutch name was New Amsterdam. Then the British
took the land in 1664 and changed its name to New York.
小题1:Which of the following is the biggest city in the United States?
| A．New York |
B．Washington |
C．New Amsterdam |
D．Chicago |
小题2:More and more people from different countries in the world come into New York because _______.
| A．New York has the largest population in the United States. |
| B．New York is as beautiful as a picture. |
| C．New York is a developing city. |
| D．they think it is a good place for business. |
小题3:The underlined word “ took” in Paragraph means ________ in Chinese.
小题4:The United States became an independent country in ________.
| A．the sixteenth century |
| B．the seventeenth century |
| C．the eighteenth century |
| D．the nineteenth century |
小题5:From the passage, we can know _________.
| A．much about Dutch |
| B．how the Dutch took New Amsterdam |
| C．some of the history of New York |
| D．how the people from different countries come to the USA |
