[单项选择]________ gave New York its nickname.
A. Artists
B. Tour guides
C. Grocers
D. Musicians

[单项选择]________ gave New York its nickname.
A. Artists
B. Tour guides
C. Grocers
D. Musicians

[单项选择]Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It’s usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. They are easy to see, because they are bright yellow and carry large TAXI signs. Taxis do not go outside the city. However they will go to the airport. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a tip of 15 percent of the fare’s value.
The quickest way to travel in New York is usually by
A. taxi.
B. bus.
C. subway.
D. bicycl

[单项选择]For the writers who first gave feudalism its name, the existence of feudalism presupposed the existence of a noble class. Yet there cannot be a noble class, properly speaking, unless both the titles that indicate superior noble status and the inheritance of such titles are sanctioned by law. Although feudalism existed in Europe as early as the eighth century, it was not until the twelfth century, when many feudal institutions were in decline, that the hereditary transfer of legally recognized titles of nobility first appeared.
The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following claims
A. To say that feudalism by definition requires the existence of a nobility is to employ a definition that distorts history.
B. Prior to the twelfth century, the institution of European feudalism functioned without the presence of a dominant class.
C. The fact that a societal group has a distinct legal status is not in itself sufficient to allow that group to be properly considered a social class.
D. The decline of feudalism in Europe was the only cause of the rise of a European nobility.
E. (E) The prior existence of feudal institutions is a prerequisite for the emergence of a nobility, as defined in the strictest sense of the term.

[填空题]They flew to New York. They ______ to New York

[单项选择]New York is searching for new ways to fight persistent poverty. To encourage families to participate in these programs, the mayor hopes to recruit private donors to provide parents with a cash incentive to make the right choices for their children, making sure they stay in school and sending them to visit health care providers.
The idea is based on a highly successful Mexican antipoverty program, set up in 1997 and known as Oportunidades, which is now being tried by at least 25 other countries. The purpose of this program is to promote education, improve health care, health maintenance, and better nutrition among Mexico’s rural families living in extreme poverty. The program provides education grants, nutritional supplements, education on hygiene(卫生) and nutrition, and cash transfers for food to mothers in participating villages.
Today the program covers one in four Mexican families, helping virtually all the poor families in the country. Families are sent a bimonthly ch
A. The government in New York.
B. Rich families.
C. Private donors.
D. The mayor in New York.

[单项选择]
New York State education officials released a new set of graduation statistics on Monday that show fewer than half of students in the state are leaving high school prepared for college and well-paying careers.
The new statistics, part of a push to redispose (重新部署 ) state standards with college performance, show that only 23 percent of students in New York City graduated ready for college or careers in 2009, not counting special-education students. That is well under half the current graduation rate of 64 percent, a number often promoted by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as evidence that his education policies are working.
But New York City is still doing better than the state’s other large urban districts. In Buffalo, Rochester. Syracuse and Yonkers, less than 17 percent of students met the proposed standards, including just 5 percent in Rochester.
The Board of Regents, which sets t
A. improve the education quality of local high schools
B. help more local students graduate from high schools
C. rearrange state standards with college performance
D. prove the efficiency of the local education policies

[单项选择] Amsterdam -- New York
Twice Weekly
Comfortable by Airbus-310 in First, Business or Economy Class
A. There are one flight every two weeks.
B. Two kinds of classes are available.
C. There are two flights every week.