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第9章 新泽西州(4)

1.“I’m From New Jersey”is the only state song that is adaptable to any municipality(市政当局,自治市)with a two or three syllable([语]音节)name.

2.New Jersey has the highest population density(密度)in the U.S.An average 1,030people per sq.mi.,which is 13times the national average.

3.New Jersey has the highest percent urban population in the U.S.with about 90%of the people living in an urban area.

4.In November of 1914,the New York Tribune,cooperating with Mr.Bertram Chapman Mayo(founder of Beachwood)issued an“Extra”announcing:“Subscribe to(同意,赞成)the New York Tribune and secure a lot at Beautiful Beachwood.Act at once,secure your lot in this Summer Paradise now!”This was the greatest premium offered by a newspaper—nothing equal to it was ever attempted in the United States.

5.New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.

6.North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world,with more cars stolen in Newark(纽华克美国加利福尼亚州西部的城市,位于奥克兰东南偏南部,旧金山湾东岸,人口众多。)than any other city.Even the two largest cities,NYC and LA put together.

7.New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U.S.

8.Picturesque Cape May holds the distinction of being the oldest seashore(海岸,海滨)resort in the United States and one of the most unique.

9.In order to meet the increasing demand for his wire rope John Roebling opened a factory in Trenton,New Jersey in 1848.John Roebling,along with his two sons,Washington and Ferdinand,built a suspension bridge across the gorge of the Niagara River.They then built the Brooklyn Bridge plus many other suspension bridges in the United States.

10.New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the diner capital of the world.

11.North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world with seven major shopping malls in a 25sq.mile radius(半径).

12.Passaic river was the site to the first submarine ride by inventor John P.Holland.

13.New Jersey has over 50resort cities and towns,some of the nations most famous,Asbury park,Wildwood,Atlantic City,Seaside heights,Cape May.

14.New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation.

15.New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the U.S.located in Elizabeth.

16.Jack Nicholson,Bruce Springsteen,Bon Jovi,Redman,Das EFX,Naughty by Nature,Sugar Hill Gang,Lords of the Underground,Jason Alexander,Queen Latifa,Shaq,Judy Blume,Arron Burr,Whitney Houston,Eddie Money,Frank Sinatra,Grover Cleveland,all New Jersey natives.

17.The light bulb,phonograph(留声机,电唱机)(record player),motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.

18.New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant(盛会,庆典)held in Atlantic City.

19.Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly

20.Fort Dix is named for Major General John Adams Dix,a veteran of the War of 1812and the Civil War.During his distinguished public career,he was a United States Senator,Secretary of the Treasury,Minister to France and Governor of New York.

21.Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk(木板路,木板铺成的散步道)in the world.

22.New Jersey has the largest petroleum(石油)containment area outside of the Middle East countries.

23.The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.

24.New Jersey has the tallest water tower in the world.

25.The first tinfoil phonograph developed by Thomas Edison was crude,but it proved his point—that sound could be recorded and played back.Thomas Edison had phonograph demonstrations and became worldrenowned as the“Wizard of Menlo Park”for this invention.

26.New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers child abuse prevention workshops to every public school.

27.The first baseball game was played in Hoboken.

28.The first intercollegiate(学院间的)football game was played in New Brunswick,in 1869.Rutgers College played Princeton.Rutgers won.

29.The first DriveIn Movie theatre was opened in Camden.

30.New Jersey has 108toxic waste(有毒废物)dumps.Which is the most in any one state in the nation.

31.New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400spoons from every state and almost every country.

32.Origin of name:From the Channel Isle of Jersey.

33.Tourism is the secondlargest industry in New Jersey.

34.In 1977,New Jersey voters approved legislation allowing legalized casino(娱乐场(供表演跳舞、赌博的地方),(=cassino)一种由二至四人玩的纸牌游戏)gambling in Atlantic City.

35.New Jersey has 21counties.

36.Although the Borough of Ship Bottom was incorporated in 1925,the name dates back to a shipwreck(船只失事,海难,遇难)that occurred in March 1817,when Captain Stephen Willets of Tuckerton rescued a young woman from the hull(船体)of a ship overturned in the shoals(浅滩).The rescue became known as“Ship Bottom”.

37.State motto is liberty and prosperity.

38.The honeybee,apis(蜜蜂)mellifera,is the New Jersey state bug.

39.The state seashell is the knobbed whelk([动]峨螺,海螺),busycon carica gmelin,it is found on all beaches and bays of New Jersey.

40.Modern paleontology(古生物学),the science of studying dinosaur fossils,began in 1858with the discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur in Haddonfield,New Jersey.The Hadrosaurus([古生]鸭嘴龙(一种嘴像鸭嘴的恐龙))is the official New Jersey state dinosaur.

41.Atlantic City’s original summer visitors were the Absegami Indians of the Lenni Lenape(德拉瓦族,德拉瓦人[语])tribe.

42.Fair Haven is believed to have been seasonally inhabited by native Indians prior to the coming of European settlers in the 1660’s.

43.Parsippany has been named Tree City USA for 24consecutive years.

44.New Jersey’s state seal was designed by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere and presented in May 1777.

45.Software and software related companies account for(占)nearly 2,700companies in New Jersey.

46.The Statue,“Soldier At Rest”was dedicated to New Jersey Civil War veterans on June 28,1875.It was purchased by the New Jersey State Legislature for10,000.

47.General Philip Kearny had a New Jersey town and 2military decorations named after him.

48.The Borough(自治的市镇,区)of Roosevelt is the only municipality in New Jersey that is,in its entirety,a registered National Historic Site.

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