[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.

[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]New York City surpassed the other Atlantic seaports in partly because it developed the best transportation links with the interior of the country.（　）
A. part
B. partial
C. partner
D. parting

[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]On New Year’s Eve, New York City holds an outdoor ______ which attracts a crowd of a million or more people.
A. incident
B. event
C. case
D. affair

[单项选择]What’s the population of New York city
A. 7 million.
B. 8 million.
C. 9 million.

[单项选择]In New York City（）has highly restrictive guidelines for（）police may use their guns, the number of people shot by local cops soared in the past three years from 68 to 108
A. there, where
B. there, when
C. it, where
D. which, when

[判断题]

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 ______.

[单项选择]From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or finishing wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have dramatically altered appearances and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.
The reasons for this activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere—space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.
Probably nowhere in the country is this more tree than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art,
A. only collects paintings by American artists
B. has sold many paintings to foreign collectors
C. has a larger collection of paintings than other museums
D. only exhibits a portion of its collection of paintings