Cefr practice reading tests find the name match answers

6. was next to last admitted to the USA? 
A 
The name Wyoming is a contraction of the Native American word mecheweamiing ("at 
the big plains”), and was first used by the Delaware people as a name for the Wyoming 
Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. Wyoming is known as the Cowboy State and the 
Equality State. The latter recognizes Wyoming as the first state to specifically give women the 
right to vote, which it did as a territory in 1869 and retained upon entering the Union. Cheyenne is 
Wyoming’s capital and largest city. 
B 
Texas is the size of Ohio, Indiana, and all the New England and Middle Atlantic states combined, 
and its vast area encompasses forests, mountains, deserts and dry plains, and a long, humid, 
subtropical coastal lowland. Texas’s wealth of mineral resources is almost unequaled among the 
other states. The rapid economic development stimulated by these resources and the state’s vast 
size have made Texas an American legend. Oil wells, chemicals, ranches, and cattle have played a 
major part in that legend. Texas was an independent republic until it joined the Union on 
December 29, 1845, as the 28th state. 
C 
Delaware is one of the South Atlantic states of the United States. It occupies part of the peninsula 
between Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay. Delaware was one of the 13 original states. 
Delawareans played a major role in the events that occurred during and after the American 
Revolution, and on December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first of the original 13 states to ratify 
the Constitution of the United States. 
Delaware is primarily an industrial state. Most of the manufacturing industries are located in New 
Castle County, although a number of industrial plants have been established in the two southern 
counties. 
D 
Kentucky has had a rich and varied history since frontier times, when it was the haunt of Daniel 
Boone and other famous pioneers. Located on the border between the historical U.S. regions of 
the North and the South, the state officially remained in the Union during the American Civil War. 
But the state was a contested area, and a considerable number of its citizens fought with the 
Confederate army. Significantly, the key Civil War political figures of the Union and the 
Confederacy, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, were both born in Kentucky. Kentucky 
slowly recovered from the war, and in the remaining decades of the 19th century, its people began 
to develop the manufacturing sector of the state’s economy that remains its cornerstone today. 

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