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[单项选择]The reflective towers of New York City, which is on the Atlantic migrating (迁徙的) route, can be deadly for birds. "We live in an age of glass," said Ms. Laurel, an architect. (76) "It can be a perfect mirror in certain lights, and the larger the glass, the more dangerous it is." About 90,000 birds are killed by flying into building in the city each year. Often, they strike the lower levels of glass towers after searching for food in nearby parks. Such crashes are the second-leading cause of death for migrating birds, after habitat (栖息地) loss, with an estimated number of death ranging up to a billion a year.
(77) As glass office and apartment towers have increased in the last decade, so, too, have calls to make them less deadly to birds. San Francisco adopted bird-safety standard for new building in July. The United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit industry group that encourages the creation of environmentally conscious buildings, will introduce a bird-safe
A. New York is a city of glass towers.
B. Glass tower are dangerous for migrating birds.
C. New York adopted new safety standards for buildings.
D. Glass towers are a new trend in the United States.
[单项选择]New York City’s first large electric sign, (which was) over six stories (high) and topped by a (forty-feet-long) green signboard, (appeared) on the side of a building in 1900.（）
A. which was
B. high
C. forty-feet-long
D. appeared
[填空题]New York City, the City of London and Shanghai have their chief commercial and administrative centre built close to the waterfront, which is also ______ Boston, Bombay, Singapore and Hong Kong.
[单项选择]Bilingual education in New York City was originally viewed as a transitional program that would teach foreign-born children in their native languages until they were fluent enough in English to enter the educational mainstream. But over the last 25 years, bilingual programs at many schools have become foreign-language ghettos from which many children never escape. The need to expose foreign-born students to more English during the school day--and to move them as quickly as possible into the mainstream-was underscored this week in a pair of reports, one from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s task force on bilingual education and one form Schools Chancellor Harold Levy.
The push to reform bilingual education has intensified across the country since the Silicon Valley millionaire Ron k. Unz championed a ballot initiative that ended bilingual education in California two years ago. Opponents of bilingual education want it replaced with the so-called immersion method, in which students are force
A. Supportive.
B. Negative.
C. Indifferent.
D. Objectiv
[单项选择]What’s the population of New York city
A. 7 million.
B. 8 million.
C. 9 million.
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New York City had a deeper harbor than other Atlantic seaports was one reason for its prosperity during the early 19th century.
[填空题]In 1905, in New York City, Gennaro Lombardi opened ______.
[填空题]The ability New York City had on the opening of the subway is that they could physically move 30,000 people from 125th Street to Wall Street in______.
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In the water around New York City there is a very small island called Liberty Island. On Liberty Island there is a special statue called the Statue of Liberty. It is one of the most famous sights in the world.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. The statue was made by a French sculptor named Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The inner support system was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the same man who made the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Liberty, of course, means freedom, and the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of U. S. independence from England. The statue was built in France, taken apart piece by piece, and then rebuilt in the United States. It was opened for the public on October 28, 1886.
The word "sights" in the first paragraph means （ ）
A. a small present
B. a kind of postcard
C. the power of seeing
D. something that you can see
