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Loving and Hating New York

Loving and Hating New York





. Reading comprehension
Ⅰ


1. Many Europeans take New York as their favorite
city,

because ________.


A. They are reassured by the sight of the fashion





avenues of Madison and Fifth.



B. There are many familiar international names in





New York.

C. New York's charged nervous atmosphere and






vulgar dynamism.


D. New York city is a cosmopolitan city.



sacred place







2. In author's eyes, New York is ________. A. a


B. a mongrel city







C. a international metropolis








D. a conventional city



seen

from ________.



3. The signs of how the New York fallen cannot be

A. New York never boasted its greatness.







B. Many advertising campaigns publicly praise





New York.



C. Many New Yorkers wear T
-
shirts with a heart






design and the words:
“

I love New York
”

printed
on it. D. New York is trying desperately to regain her
lost






privileged status.

4. From where the author begins to give an actual

description of New York itself.


A. The last sentence of paragraph 5.




B. The first sentence of paragraph 6.




C. From paragraph 1
-
5.





D. The whole essay.



York?










5. Which of the following cities is located in New


A. Jersey




B. Soho










C. Nashville




D. Beverly Hills









. Determine whether the following statements are true
Ⅱ
or false. Put
“
T
”
, if the statement is true and put an
“
F
”
,

if false.



1. According to the author, New York is no longer the

leading city is the United States.




2. New York is a city that resists the prevailing trends
of

America and it is a place where people can escape
from


uniformity and uncommonness.


3. Europeans take to New York because they feel

reassured when they see so many jewelers, shoes


stores

and designer shops bearing familiar international
names


on Madison and Fifth avenues.


4. The rhetorical device employed in
“

Nature
constantly



yields to man
…”

is personification.


5. It is the fascination charm of New York as well as
the

opportunity to be a journalist that attracts the author to

New York.





6. It is the good living conditions that draw those
young


people to New York.


7. The sentence
“

All have their sovereignties
”

means all

the different ethnic groups have their own little areas

which they control.







8. New York is not longer the banking and
communications headquarters for America.


9. The newcomers to New York are never fully


assimilated.




10. New York regards the United Nations as an

unworkable, impractical and hypocritical
institution.






Ⅲ
. Point out what figure of speech is used in each of
the

following sentences:



1. While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood,
and

the Johnny Carson show live, pre
-
empt the air waves

form California



2. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and
Hollywood.






3. New York was never Mecca to me.



4. Nature constantly yields to man in New York:
witness

those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against

encroaching cement and petrol fumes.



5. So much of well
-
to
-
do America now lives

antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that



shut out the world.


6.
“
So what else is new?
”


7. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else
on


the wrong side of town.


8. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United

Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as
an

unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical,
and


treaties forced upon her by foreign

the rs.



.Choose the word or phrase which best completes


each
Ⅳ
sentence.



1. He fought back at his tormentors with ________ of
a

corner red rat.


A. dejection




B. depression




C. desperation










D. despair






2. He monopolized the conversation by ________ of
his

own prowess at hunting and fishing.


A. boasting




B. bragging




C. crowing










D. vaunting






3. It was alleged that he was present at the scene of
the

crime, but he ________ that he was in Europe at the
time.


A. asserted








B. maintained





C. affirmed








D. testified






4. It has become the ________ for royalty to appears
as


democratic and
“

folksy
”

as the average politician.
A. fashion




B. trend




C. vogue










D. style






5. The ________ between Guelphs and Ghibellines in

medieval Italy passed from controversy over papal

authority to petty was between city states.


A. contention




B. friction




C. conflict




D. strife



________ .


A. prompted




B. motivated












6. He was too nervous to speak and had to be






C. stimulated







D. propelled






7. A short cut through the mountain is extremely

________ in winter.


A. distant




C. remote







B. inaccessible







D. dessert






8. Australia ________ the Treaty of Peace with Japan
on

10th April, 1952; New Zealand on 29th April, 1952.


A. confirmed




B. sanctioned




C. ratified











D. approved




A. luxurious




B. luxuriant




C. luscious




D. lustrous









9. He is a poet with ________ imagination.







10. ________ clod hoppers guffawed at seeing male

ballet dancers wearing tights.


A. naive






B. unaffected








C. unsophisticated






D. provincial






11. He felt listless until the sea breeze ________ him
and

steadied his nerves.


A. cheered








B. encouraged




C. exhilarated




D. excited




A. fortitude










12. She endured her illness with great __________




B. forbearance




C. persistence






D. resolution






willing to meet her husband's 13. Mary is no long

bullying with docile ________.


A. patience








B. sufferance




C. tolerance








D. forbearance






14. The actress was becoming extremely _________
with

all the questions they were asking by the uncalled
-
for


innuendo in the reporter's question.


A. outraged







B. aggravated




C. exasperated







D. insulted






15. It would be ________ of me to have a church


wedding when I don't believe in God. A. hypocritical






B. hypercritical







C. hysterical






D. hypothetical






16. He balanced the glass ________ on the arm of the

chair.


A. precociously




B. precariously










C. precautionary






D. precipitously






17. You can rest ______ that the talented young
secretary

has been able to confirm what he said in the original

report.


A. assured




B. ensured








C. insured







D. reassured






18. The leader's speech in defense of the policy didn't

carry much ________.


A. conviction




B. belief










C. confidence




D. concern






19. American revolutionaries who rejected England's

claim of ________ over the colonies.


A. sovereignty




B. authority










C. power






D. right






20. The public is very _____ about the governor's
plans

for a tax cut.


A. susceptible




B. dubious









C. suspicious





D. deliberate






21. The two countries will _____ full diplomatic

relations now that they have settled their long
standing

border dispute.


A. recove




B. restore




C. renovate










D. replace






22. Everyone in the auditorium was weeping by the
time

he finished the _____ tale, though it was fabricated

obviously.




A. pessimistic




B. pathetic




C. patriotic




D. melancholy














.Put the following words and phrases into the
Ⅴ
appropriate blanks in the following sentences.





be reckoned measure up against

cut off
…

from

in terms of


yield to

beckon to

out of phase with

with

look up to


swallow up


out of step with





.

1. They were already a political force to

for its excellent 2. The school is widely

teaching.


3. The new building is its surroundings.

temptation and had a chocolate bar
.


4. I
has its



5. The job is great salary, but it

disadvantages.

6. He ________ himself ________ all
human



and lived alone in a remote area.


7. The figures are not very good
those of our competitors. when

8. I watched her walk down the road until
she
was
9. He





by the darkness.


the waiter to bring the bill.


10. She was her colleagues and regarded

as an eccentric woman.



Ⅵ
.Fill in each blank with a suitable verb
from

the lists below in the proper form.




drop

diminish

decline

decrease

reduce



lessen

dwindle





1. I hope to obtain your forgiveness,
your ill opinion.

to

2. His sense of personal initiative is
cultivated
.

3. The number of nations allied with
Germany as the war continued.

dramatically

4. The incidence of malaria
mosquitoes.






instead of being


because of the eradication of malarial

5. Certain medicines are said to be effective

in

people's weight.


6. It is said that her vitality and creativity

with age.