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   A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing. Many American cities have   41    . These can help establish an identity, spread pride among citizens and build unity. Nicknames can also be .  42  

    Los Angeles, California is the   43    largest city in population, after New York City. Los Angeles has several nicknames. One is simply the city's initials, L.A. It is    44   called the City of Angels because Los Angeles means "the angels" in Spanish. Los Angeles often has warm,  45    weather. So another nickname is City of Flowers and sunshine. New York is called The Big Apple. So Los Angeles is  46      called The Big Orange because of the fruit that grows in that city's warm  47  

    The American motion picture and television industries are based in Los Angeles. So it is not   48    that it is called The Entertainment Capital of the  49  are made in the area of Los Angeles called Hollywood. Millions of people visit the area. No trip to Los Angeles is 50    without seeing the word "Hollywood" spelled out in huge letters on a hillside. Many movie stars live in Los Angeles. The city is sometimes called Tinseltown. This nickname comes from the shiny, bright and often unreal nature of Hollywood and the movie industry.

    Another nickname for Los Angeles is La-La Land,   51   the first letters of Los and Angeles. This means a place that is fun and not serious, and maybe even out of  52     with reality. The city of Los Angeles is part of Los Angeles County. There are many smaller cities in the county. Beverly Hills, with its rich people, is one of them. So is Pasadena, with its Rose Parade each New Year's Day. So are the  53     cities of Santa Monica and Malibu,   54   people like to ride surfboards on the Pacific Ocean waves.

     A good place for watching unusual-looking people is Venice, an 55    on the west side of Los Angeles. A system of waterways    56  after the Italian city of Venice has been built people 57   Los Angeles for its warm sunny weather, beautiful mountains and   58   , and movie stars. That  59  Randy Newman,   60   sings about his hometown

41.A dialects      B addresses      C areas        D nicknames

42.A funny       B boring         C instructive    D moving

43.A first         B second        C third         Dfourth

44.A even         B then          C also         D yet

45.A cloudy       B foggy         C sunny        Ddusty

46.A always       B frequently      C never        D sometimes

47.A language     B location        C shape        D climate

48.A interesting    B surprising      C motivating    Ddisgusting

49.A films         B songs         C radios        Dcameras

50.A wet          B complete      C dry           D clean

51.A making       B using         C causing       Dbringing

52.A touch        Buse            C smell         D advantage

53.A ugly         Bhilly           C muddy        D coastal

54.A what         Bwhich          C where        Dwho

55.A area          B city           C county        Dstate

56.A bought        Bsold           C designed      D stolen

57.A love          B hate           C envy         D sense

58.A deserts        Bhills           Ccoaches        Dbeaches

59A holds          Blaughs         C feels          Dincludes

60Awhere          Bwhat          C which         D who

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