首页
登录
职称英语
A Nice Place to Visit Having heard that Toronto was be
A Nice Place to Visit Having heard that Toronto was be
游客
2025-01-05
31
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 in 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 check 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 towr’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 seems to suggest that high divorce rate is related to ______.
选项
A、police and fire sirens
B、noises that keep people awake at night
C、true urbanity
D、sore eyes
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3899075.html
相关试题推荐
Insomespeechcommunity,twolanguagesareusedsidebysidewitheachhavinga
ANicePlacetoVisitHavingheardthatTorontowasbe
ANicePlacetoVisitHavingheardthatTorontowasbe
ANicePlacetoVisitHavingheardthatTorontowasbe
Socialcustomsandwaysofbehavingchange.Thingswhichwereconsideredimpo
Socialcustomsandwaysofbehavingchange.Thingswhichwereconsideredimpo
Socialcustomsandwaysofbehavingchange.Thingswhichwereconsideredimpo
Socialcustomsandwaysofbehavingchange.Thingswhichwereconsideredimpo
Socialcustomsandwaysofbehavingchange.Thingswhichwereconsideredimpo
Canada’slargestcityis______.A、Montreal.B、Toronto.C、Ottawa.D、Vancouver.B
随机试题
•Lookattheguidelinesbelowaboutstaffappraisal.•Choosethebestwordfrom
Singaporeiswellknownasamulti-racial,multi-culturalandmulti-religiousna
Teachersshoulddoalltheycanto__________ontheirstudentstodobetterrat
散剂优点不包括A、奏效快 B、制法简单 C、运输携带方便 D、剂量可随意增
某商品住宅开发项目土地取得费用为13000万元,规划建筑面积为50000㎡,除土
甲、乙类可燃气体的高大构架和设备群应设置水炮保护,其设置位置距保护对象不宜小于(
下列案件中,属于应向社会公布的重大税收违法失信案件的有()。A.纳税人虚开增值税
某工程设计有两个方案:甲方案功能评价系数0.85,成本系数0.92;乙方案功能评
该车间的平均利用系数约为()A.0.25;B0.35;C.0.
(2012年)环境空气质量二类功能区某环境空气现状监测点SO2日平均浓度监测结
最新回复
(
0
)