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Which of the following city is located in Europe?
A . Bangkok
B . Chicago
C . NewYork
D . Oslo
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"Town Hall is the tallest building in the city." "()from here?"
A . Can it see
B . Can it be seen
C . Can see
D . Can be seeing it
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I prefer to live in the countryside. Country life has a lot of()over city life.
A . character
B . qualities
C . advantages
D . way
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How is midlife pictured in the book Life Reimagined?
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What is the famous scenic spots in New York City?
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Though ________ in a big city, Peter always prefers to paint the primitive scenesof country life.
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Which building is the most majestic one in the Forbidden City?
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Though _____ in a big city, Peter always prefers to paint the primitive scenes of country life.
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As pace of life quickens things____ to change fast in the city.
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Dujiangyan is located in the city of _____.
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It is really difficult to adapt to the _________ pace of life in big cities after you spent several years in the countryside.
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Which part of San Kong is in the north of the Qufu City?
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______ , known as "the City of Angels", is the second largest city in the United States.
A.Chicago
B.Boston
C.Los Angeles
D.San Francisco
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Which one is the oldest city in Canada?
A.Montreal
B.Quebec city
C.St John’s
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She gets tired of the noisy life in the city, so she has decided to move _____the country.
A、in
B、around
C、on
D、to
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______is the second largest city in Great Britain.
A.Birmingham
B.Belfast
C.Edinburgh
D.Manchester
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Jessica likes Chicago because it is one of the largest cities in the US.
A.Right.
B.Wrong.
C.Doesn't say.
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Although the"on line"life style. has dominated the majority of city youth, most people in the remote countryside still think Internet or something is_______ to their life.
A.unconcerned
B.irrelevant
C.inseparable
D.inaccessible
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The telecity is a city whose life, direction, and functioning are largely shaped by telecommunications. In the twenty first century, cities will be based more and more on an economy that is dependent on services and intellectual property. Telecommunications and information networks will define a city's architecture, shape, and character. Proximity in the telecity will be defined by the speed and bandwidth of networks as much as by geographical propinquity. In the age of the telecity, New York and Singapore may be closer than, say, New York and Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Telecities will supersede megacities for several reasons, including the drive toward clean air, reducing pollution, energy conservation, more jobs based on services, and coping with the high cost of urban property. Now we must add the need to cope with terrorist threats in a high-technology world.
Western mind-sets were clearly jolted in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and attacks in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and else where. But the risks posed by twentieth-century patterns of urbanization and architecture have ye to register fully with political figures and leaders of industry. The Pentagon, for example, has been rebuilt in situation rather than distributed to multiple locations and connected by secure landlines and broadband wireless systems. Likewise, the reconstruction of the World Trade Center complex still represents a massive concentration of humanity and infrastructure. This is a remarkably shortsighted and dangerous vision of the future.
The security risks, economic expenses, and environmental hazards of over-centralization are everywhere, and they do not stop with skyscrapers and large governmental structures. There are risks also at seaports and airports, in food and water supplies, at nuclear power plants and hydroelectric turbines at major dams, in transportation systems, and in information and communications systems.
This vulnerability applies not only to terrorist threats but also to human error, such as system-wide blackouts in North America in August 2003 and in Italy in September 2003, and natural disasters such as typhoons, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. Leaders and planners are only slowly becoming aware that overcentralized facilities are the most vulnerable to attack or catastrophic destruction.
There is also growing awareness that new broadband electronic systems now allow governments and corporations to safeguard their key assets and people in new and innovative ways. So far, corporations have been quickest to adjust to these new realities, and some governments have begun to adjust as well.
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A.The telecity is a TV manufacturing city.
B.The telecity is a city of the speed and bandwidth of networks.
C.Singapore is closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas is in telecity age.
D.Singapore is actually closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
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Everyone who has visited the city agrees that it is_____with life.
A.vibrant
B.violent
C.energetic
D.full
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(1) Life can be tough for immigrants in America. A...
(1) Life can be tough for immigrants in America. As a Romanian bank clerk in Atlanta puts it, to find a good job “you have to be like a wolf in the forest – able to smell out the best meat.” And if you can’t find work, don’t expect the taxpayer to bail you out. Unlike in some European countries, it is extremely hard for an able-bodied immigrant to live off the state. A law passed in 1996 explicitly bars most immigrants, even those with legal status, from receiving almost any federal benefits. (2) That is one reason why America absorbs immigrants better than any other rich countries, according to a new study by the University of California. The researchers sought to measure the effect of immigration on the native-born in 20 rich countries, taking into account differences in skills between immigrants and natives, imperfect labor markets and the size of the welfare state in each country. (3) Their results offer ammunition for fans of more open borders. In 19 out of 20 countries, the authors calculated that shutting the doors entirely to foreign workers would make the native-born worse off. Never mind what it would do to the immigrants themselves, who benefit far more than anyone else from being allowed to cross borders to find work. (4) The study also suggests that most countries could handle more immigration than they currently allow. In America, a one-percentage point increase in the proportion of immigrants in the population made the native-born 0.05% better off. The opposite was true in some countries with generous or ill-designed welfare states, however. A one-point rise in immigration made the native-born slightly worse off in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In Belgium, immigrants who lose jobs can receive almost two-thirds of their most recent wage in state benefits, which must make the hunt for a new job less urgent. (5) None of these effects was large, but the study undermines the claim that immigrants steal jobs from native or drag down their wages. Many immigrants take jobs that Americans do not want, the study finds. This “smooths” the labor market and ultimately creates more jobs for locals. Native-owned grocery stores do better business because there are immigrants to pick the fruit they sell. Indian computer scientists help American software firms expand. A previous study found that because immigrants typically earn less than locals with similar skills, they boost corporate profits, prompting companies to grow and hire more locals. 1. Increase in immigration in Austria fails to improve locals’ life mainly because of ________.
A、low wages for locals
B、imperfect labor markets
C、the design of the welfare system
D、inadequate skills of immigrants
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Generally _____, that city is less crowded than the others in the province()
A.talking
B.telling
C.saying
D.speaking
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In the United States, a(n) general is the chief lawyer in a city or government department()
A.senator
B.solicitor
C.councilor
D.inspector