• Pre-Intermediate
  • Listening

Immigration to the United States

  • Listening
Listen and answer the questions.
Choose True, False or Not given
1) The lecturer proposes studying the process of admitting immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • False
  • True
  • Not given
2) The first examination was language test
  • True
  • Not given
  • False
3) The second examination was medical inspection
  • False
  • True
  • Not given
4) After establishing whether immigrants had any criminal convictions, they were able to change currency
  • False
  • Not given
  • True
5) Having passed the examinations, immigrants were told to wait several hours
  • False
  • Not given
  • True
6) This simple testing system is responsible for the current ethnic make-up in New York today
  • Not given
  • True
  • False
7) Over 10 million people immigrated to the USA in the early twentieth
  • False
  • Not given
  • True
8) Different parts of New York have changed radically in their ethnic make-up over the last two centuries
  • True
  • False
  • Not given
9) The changing population of Manhattan has nothing in common with its importance as a financial centre
  • Not given
  • True
  • False
10) Large population increase of Brooklyn was due to employment
  • True
  • Not given
  • False