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[单项选择]Cities across the country have not learned a thing from tearing down too many historic houses in a massive urban renovation in the last two decades. Sadly, big metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai are setting bad examples.
The recent decision to dismantle a former residence of Lu Xun in Beijing, one of China’s greatest writers and thinkers, has sparked huge public outcry. This is an emergency that calls for immediate government intervention.
In his downtown Beijing courtyard house, known as siheyuan in Chinese, Lu Xun wrote several well-known novelettes, such as Madman’s Diaries and The True Story of Ah Q. These short stories, which are still included in high school textbooks, have influenced more than a generation of Chinese.
The fact that few Chinese writers have had the same impact on the nation as Lu Xun in the last 80 years would make any of his former residences worthy of government protection. This was the very place where his popular stories were autho
A. a government official
B. a city planner
C. an environmentalist
D. a historic houses protector
[单项选择]Rich or poor, American Indians in Cities across the country are facing startling health challenges unlike those of any other urban population, according to a new study of federal data.
Even as urban American Indians move up the income ladder, researchers found rates of binge drinking and tobacco use in the community are staying the same—or sometimes even increasing— in cities from New York to Helena, Mont. "When Indian folks drink, it appears to have nothing to do with how much money they have, and that’s not true for any other racial group," said Maile Taualii, scientific director at the Seattle-based Urban Indian Health Institute, which announced the findings March 5. " There seems to be a sense of hopelessness, a sense that diabetes, alcoholism and other health problems are inevitable in the community. "
More than half of all American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Untied States live in cities. And for years—decades in some places—Native people have been receiving healt
A. Both countryside and urban Indian Americans experience health threat.
B. Among other races in America, people with higher income drink and smoke less.
C. Most American Indians live in their tribes.
D. Bush government attaches more importance to the health of’ Indian Americans.
[填空题]Among all the cities across China, ______ embraces this new world with the unimaginable enthusiasm.
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Different
While the cities of China have undergone modernization evident in the rising towers and bright lights that have awakened the sleeping country, the countryside remains largely the same.
Rectangular rows of rice fields litter the long lanes of water designed to provide the constant supply of water that is vital to producing the crop. The experience is not unlike driving through the American Midwest, only rice not corn dominates the landscape.
Four years ago, when I last took this trip, the roads were dust and telephone wires did not run parallel to the highway. Bare roads have been replaced by sleek, newly paved highways running from Shanghai to Nanking, to my smaller, home city, Wuhu. Unlike the changes I had heard of and expected in Shanghai, Wuhu was much more of a surprise. The small city where I was born had grown up as I have. There are large high-rise buildings, each ringed with smaller buildings around it,
A. cities but not countryside of China
B. both cities and countryside of China
C. countryside but not in large cities
D. everywhere
[单项选择]Some cities have planned their transportation systems for car owners. That is what Los Angeles did. Los Angeles decided to build highways for cars rather than spending money on public transportation.
This decision was suitable for Los Angeles. The city grew outward instead of upward. Los Angeles never built many tall apartment buildings. Instead, people lived in houses with gardens.
In Los Angeles, most people drive cars to work. And every car has to have a parking space. So many buildings where people work also have parking lots.
Los Angeles also became a city without a Central Business District (CBD). If a city has a CBD, crowds of people rush into it every day to work. If people drive to work, they need lots of road space.
So Los Angeles developed several business districts and built homes and other buildings in between the districts. This required more roads and parking spaces.
Some people defend this growth pattern. They say Los Angeles is the city of the
