首页
登录
职称英语
A Nice Place to Visit Having heard that Toronto was
A Nice Place to Visit Having heard that Toronto was
游客
2023-12-08
6
管理
问题
A Nice Place to Visit
Having heard that Toronto was becoming one of the continent’s noblest cities, we flew from New York to investigate. New Yorkers proud of their city’s reputation and concerned about challenges to its stature have little to worry about.
After three days in residence, our delegation noted an absence of shrieking police and fire sirens at 3 A.M. — or any other hour, for that matter. We spoke to the city authorities about this. What kind of city was it, we asked, that expected its citizens to sleep all night and rise refreshed in the morning? Where was the incentive to awaken gummy-eyed and exhausted, ready to scream at the first person one saw m the morning? How could Toronto possibly hope to maintain a robust urban divorce rate?
Our criticism went unheeded, such is the torpor with which Toronto pursues true urbanity. The fact appears to be that Toronto has very little grasp of what is required of a great city.
Consider the garbage picture. It seems never to have occurred to anybody in Toronto that garbage exists to be heaved into the streets. One can drive for miles without seeing so much as a banana peel in the gutter or a discarded newspaper whirling in the wind.
Nor has Toronto learned about dogs. A cheek with the authorities confirmed that, yes, there are indeed dogs resident in Toronto, but one would never realize it by walking the sidewalks. Our delegation was shocked by the presumption of a town’ s calling itself a city, much less a great city, when it obviously knows nothing of either garbage or dogs.
The subway, on which Toronto prides itself, was a laughable imitation of the real thing. The subway, cars were not only spotlessly clean, but also fully illuminated, So were the stations. To New Yorkers, it was embarrassing, and we hadn’t the heart to tell the subway authorities that they were light-years away from greatness.
We did, however, tell them about spray paints and how effectively a few hundred children equipped with spray-paint cans could at least give their subway the big-city look,
It seems doubtful they are ready to take such hints. There is a disturbing distaste for vandalism in Toronto which will make it hard for the city to enter wholeheartedly into the vigour of the late twentieth century.
A board fence surrounding a huge excavation for a new high-rise building in the downtown district offers depressing evidence of Toronto’s lack of big-city impulse. Embedded in the fence at intervals of about fifty feet are loudspeakers that play recorded music for passing pedestrians.
Not a single one of these loudspeakers has been mutilated. What’s worse, not a single one has been stolen.
It was good to get back to the Big Apple. My coat pocket was bulging, with candy wrappers from Toronto and — such is the lingering power of Toronto — it took me two or three hours back in New York before it seemed natural again to toss them into the street. [br] The author wrote this article______.
选项
A、to criticise Toronto
B、to ridicule Toronto
C、to praise New York
D、to satirize New York
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3256466.html
相关试题推荐
OnJuly7th,IwastravelinginLondon.Iwashavingbreakfastatahotelve
OnJuly7th,IwastravelinginLondon.Iwashavingbreakfastatahotelve
OnJuly7th,IwastravelinginLondon.Iwashavingbreakfastatahotelve
Havingstayedinthearmyfor3years,heisusedtogetupearlyinthemorning
Womenweremorelikelythanmentoreporthavingunderstandingsaboutsafer
Womenweremorelikelythanmentoreporthavingunderstandingsaboutsafer
Womenweremorelikelythanmentoreporthavingunderstandingsaboutsafer
Womenweremorelikelythanmentoreporthavingunderstandingsaboutsafer
Womenweremorelikelythanmentoreporthavingunderstandingsaboutsafer
HavingresidedinNewMexicoformanyyears,painterGeorgiaO’Keefeemployssuc
随机试题
Rumorshaveswirledforyearsaboutthemysticalphone,whichFacebookintro
Largecompaniesneedawaytoreachthesavingsofthepublicatlarge.Ther
根据我国相关法律的规定,下列有关农村土地承包经营权的表述不正确的是( )。A.
根据室间隔缺损的血流动力学改变,首先引起增大的心腔是A.左心房 B.左心室
起于胞中的三条经脉是( )。A.冲、任、带 B.任、督、带 C.冲、任、督
以下不是药事组织管理的特征的是A:以维护公众的健康为根本目的B:形成基本的药事
变压器投入运行后现场温度计指示的温度、控制室温度显示装置、监控系统的温度三者基本
喘证寒饮伏肺,复感外寒而引发者宜选用何方A.麻黄汤 B.小青龙汤 C.麻杏甘
公安后勤保障工作的主要内容有( )A.经费保障 B.装备保障 C.生活保障
2018年年初某银行次级类贷款余额为1000亿元,其中在2018年年末转为可疑类
最新回复
(
0
)