• Pre-Intermediate
  • Listening

Immigration to the United States

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