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(1)What a beautiful city. Lights blinking serenely, highways and rivers flow
(1)What a beautiful city. Lights blinking serenely, highways and rivers flow
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(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 contains a different figure of speech from others?
选项
A、Lights blinking serenely, highways and rivers flowing, bridges on guard like giant eagles.
B、The organizers are putting on an impressive dog-and-pony show in New York.
C、The organizers may have painted themselves into a corner by ignoring the prospect...
D、But this is one city that does not need the Summer Games to put itself on the map.
答案
A
解析
A把桥比喻成鹰,且有比喻词like,因此修辞手法为明喻(simile)。B、C、D三句都是暗喻(metaphor),B用马戏表演比喻缺乏实质内容的盛大表演;C用涂地板时将自己涂到角落比喻陷入困境;D用标上地图比喻偏僻的地方突然举世闻名。故本题应选A。
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