Учебное пособие по английскому языку часть I для I курса

Notes

1. 
   immigrant – a person coming into a country from abroad to make his home there; ant. emigrant – a person who leaves his own country in order to go and live in another
   

2. 
   Downtown AmE – the business center of a town or city; Uptown AmE – northern areas of a city or town where people live, not the business center
   

3. 
   the Empire State Building – the highest building in the world, it is 1, 250 feet high and has 102 stories
   

4. 
   Rockefeller Center* - fifteen skyscrapers, housing several large corporations such as the International Associated Press, Time and Life magazines, National and American Broadcasting systems, etc.
   

5. 
   Stock Exchange also Stock market – a place where stocks, bonds and shares are bought and sold
   

6. 
   one-way street – a street where only one-way traffic is allowed. In New York even numbered streets are one-way going East; odd numbered streets are going West
   

7. 
   elevated highway – a highway raised above the ground to avoid traffic jams at street crossing
   

Vocabulary