首页
登录
职称英语
(1)What a beautiful city. Lights blinking serenely, highways and rivers flow
(1)What a beautiful city. Lights blinking serenely, highways and rivers flow
游客
2023-12-03
49
管理
问题
(1)What a beautiful city. Lights blinking serenely, highways and rivers flowing, bridges on guard like giant eagles. And playgrounds, playgrounds everywhere. New York City is already on the map—specifically, the huge permanent Panorama that takes up an entire gallery at the Queens Museum, displaying all 895,000 buildings in the five boroughs.
(2)The organizers of the NYC2012 bid took the Olympic evaluation committee to the Panorama yesterday to demonstrate what this city would look like during a Summer Games—with just a nip here, a tuck mere and, oh, by the way, a humongous stadium that would bring Western civilization and a bigger cash flow to the West Side of Manhattan. Yesterday these very able organizers trotted out fabled athletes like Billie Jean King, Grete Waitz, Bill Bradley, Nadia Comaneci, Bart Connor, Bob Beamon, Janet Evans and Eamonn Coghlan, who all testified that New York would be a grand host in 2012 and an even better playground in the years afterward.
(3)Even with vital needs for more schools, more hospitals, it is hard not to be tantalized by more sports facilities when King tells how her apprenticeship on the public courts of Long Beach, Calif., led directly to her glories at the United States Open in Forest Hills and Flushing Meadows. It is hard not to feel the international dynamics of the Olympics when Bradley relates how he used his minimal Russian to trash-talk a Soviet player at the 1964 Summer Games, before he became a member of the championship Knicks of melancholy and ancient memory. It is hard not to be pulled into the sporting energy of New York when Waitz recalls her first New York marathon, how she plodded through the quiet streets of Queens before crossing the Queensboro Bridge. "I’m dying," she said, recalling that wall of sound in Manhattan, which made her think, "Are they talking to me?" They were indeed talking to her, urging her to run faster. King and Bradley agreed that there was something in the New York air—maybe the legendary New York echo, the one that talks back—that makes people run faster, leap higher, think quicker.
(4)Does any of this mean New York needs to be the host of the 2012 Summer Games? The organizers are putting on an impressive dog-and-pony show in New York. Central Park always looks good in snow, but this time it balances out the gaudy and temporary stunt of the bright-orange "Gates". Not needing gimmicks, New York already has the heady confidence of a city deeply involved in its sports teams. The International Olympic Committee’s scouts are inspecting the city, but most New Yorkers care more about whether Jason Giambi and Mike Piazza get their power back.
(5)The evaluation committee was taken out to Queens yesterday morning to visit the National Tennis Center. Despite the snowstorm Sunday night, the parking lots and walkways at the center were dry. "I had my five kids out there shoveling at 4 in the morning, paid them $1 an hour," said Jay Kriegel, the executive director of NYC2012, who was, perhaps, joking. The NYC2012 people even organized a sortie to Madison Square Garden, the proposed site of Olympic basketball in 2012. The Garden is run by the Dolan Cablevision people, who are fighting the three-in-one stadium plan, but the visit was gracious on all sides. Bradley, the former three-term senator from New Jersey, was at the Garden, where he used to push Jack Marin of the Baltimore Bullets and get free for backdoor layups. This time he shot baskets with the evaluation commission. There is apparently no I.O.C. law against that.
(6)The organizers are planning to build pools and Whitewater canoe courses and equestrian centers that would theoretically benefit New Yorkers for generations. They make a very good presentation about the lasting value of the Games to any host city. "The I.O.C. does not want white elephants," King said. To guarantee a lasting impact, the NYC2012 people have organized a Legacy Foundation, which started with a $75 million endowment. Andrew Kimball, the director of operations for NYC2012, addressed the evaluation committee and said legacy "is a critical issue for them."
(7)The drawback is that this entire bid is hinged upon NYC2012’s insistence on building a multipurpose center with a retractable dome that would serve as convention center, indoor arena and Jets football stadium. "In fact, we are creating an entirely new neighborhood in New York City," Kriegel said while overlooking the low-slung railroad yards and warehouses alongside the Hudson River.
(8)The organizers may have painted themselves into a corner by ignoring the prospect of an Olympic stadium on cheaper, more accessible open space in Queens. New York can always use better sports facilities. But this is one city that does not need the Summer Games to put itself on the map. [br] Which of the following conclusions can we draw from the passage?
选项
A、The athletes selected by the NYC2012 are all native New Yorkers.
B、New York authority attaches more importance to sports than education.
C、IOC’s evaluation committee plays a crucial role in the eventual result.
D、The host city of Olympics can be provided financial support by the IOC.
答案
C
解析
本文描述了纽约奥申委做出种种努力迎接国际奥委会评估团的考察,陈述理由并展示实力,据此可以推出评估团对于最终的结果起着关键作用,因此C是正确推断。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3240521.html
相关试题推荐
这风景美得我无法形容。Thesceneryisbeautifulbeyondmyexpression.
TheWestLakeissobeautifulplacethatitattractsthousandsoftouristsevery
(1)Whatabeautifulcity.Lightsblinkingserenely,highwaysandriversflow
(1)Whatabeautifulcity.Lightsblinkingserenely,highwaysandriversflow
(1)Whatabeautifulcity.Lightsblinkingserenely,highwaysandriversflow
(1)Whatabeautifulcity.Lightsblinkingserenely,highwaysandriversflow
PASSAGETHREE[br]WhyareflashinglightsandringbellsusedinLasVegas?Toc
PASSAGETHREE[br]Whatfeaturedelightstheauthormost?Thetalenttodecorate
Whatwouldtheholidaysbewithoutlotsoftinytwinklinglights?Lesscolor
Whatwouldtheholidaysbewithoutlotsoftinytwinklinglights?Lesscolor
随机试题
【B1】[br]【B10】A、includedB、involvedC、revolvedD、inclinedB词义辨析题。四个选项:include意为
应与小儿腹股沟斜疝鉴别的疾病有A.睾丸鞘膜积液 B.睾丸下降不全 C.上述疾
商业银行的信贷风险处置按照阶段划分,可以分为预控性处置与实质性处置。( )
银行应建立客户追踪制度,其追踪活动包括()。A.向客户提供信息 B.约见产品专
输液过程中导致静脉痉挛的原因是A、液体注入皮下组织 B、针头阻塞 C、患者肢
全国人大常委会有权“决定”的人员不包括下列哪项:A、国务院秘书长 B、中央军委
注射青霉素引起过敏性休克,血压下降,是由血管活性物质引起的生物学效应,这种休克的
下列关于履历分析技术中对履历的要求的说法,正确的有( )。A.真实 B.成本
A.2 B.3 C.0 D.不存在
根据《安全生产许可证条例》,企业取得安全生产许可证,应当具备的安全生产条件有()
最新回复
(
0
)