首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
(1)"The world isn’t flat," writes Edward Glaeser, "it’s paved." At any rate, most of the places where people prefer to dwell are
(1)"The world isn’t flat," writes Edward Glaeser, "it’s paved." At any rate, most of the places where people prefer to dwell are
admin
2019-03-25
24
问题
(1)"The world isn’t flat," writes Edward Glaeser, "it’s paved." At any rate, most of the places where people prefer to dwell are paved. More than half of humanity now lives in cities, and every month 5 million people move from the countryside to a city somewhere in the developing world.
(2)For Mr Glaeser, a Harvard economist who grew up in Manhattan, this is a happy prospect. He calls cities "our species’ greatest invention": proximity makes people more inventive, as bright minds feed off one another, more productive, as scale gives rise to finer degrees of specialisation; and kinder to the planet, as city-dwellers are more likely to go by foot, bus or train than the car-slaves of suburbia and the sticks. He builds a strong case, too, for town-dwelling, drawing on his own research as well as that of other observers of urban life. And although liberally sprinkled with statistics, Triumph of the City is no dry work. Mr Glaeser writes lucidly and spares his readers the equations of his trade.
(3)What makes some cities succeed? Successful places have in common the ability to attract people and to enable them to collaborate. Yet Mr Glaeser also says they are not like Tolstoy’s happy families: those that thrive, thrive in their own ways. Thus Tokyo is a national seat of political and financial power. Singapore embodies a peculiar mix of the free market, state-led industrialisation and paternalism. The well-educated citizenries of Boston, Milan, Minneapolis and New York have found new sources of prosperity when old ones ran out.
(4)Mr Glaeser is likely to raise hackles in three areas. The first is urban poverty in the developing world. He can see the misery of a slum in Kolkata, Lagos or Rio de Janeiro as easily as anyone else, but believes that "there’s a lot to like about urban poverty" because it beats the rural kind. Cities attract the poor with the promise of a better lot than the countryside offers. About three-quarters of Lagos’s people have access to safe drinking water, the Nigerian average is less than 30%. Rural West Bengal’s poverty rate is twice Kolkata’s.
(5)The second is the height of buildings. Mr Glaeser likes them tall—and it’s not just the Manhattanite in him speaking. He likes low-rise neighbourhoods, too, but points out that restrictions on height are also restrictions on the supply of space, which push up the prices of housing and offices. That suits those who own property already, but hurts those who might otherwise move in, and hence perhaps the city as a whole.
(6)So Mr Glaeser wonders whether central Paris might have benefited from a few skyscrapers. He certainly believes that his hometown should preserve fewer old buildings. And he thinks that cities in developing countries should build up rather than out. New downtown developments in Mumbai, he says, should rise to at least 40 storeys.
(7)The third, related, area is sprawl, which is promoted, especially in America, by flawed policies nationally and locally. Living out of town may feel green, but it isn’t. Americans live too far apart, drive too much and walk too little. The tax-deductibility of mortgage interest encourages people to buy houses rather than rent flats, buy bigger properties rather than smaller ones and therefore to spread out. Minimum plot sizes keep folk out of, say, Marin County, California. He says that spreading Houston has "done a better job of providing affordable housing than all of the progressive reformers on America’s East and West coasts."
(8)Cities need wise government above all else, and they get it too rarely. That is one reason why, from Paris in 1789 to Cairo in 2011, they are sources of political upheaval as well as economic advance. The reader may wonder if Mumbai really would be better off as a city of high-rise slums rather than low-rise ones.
The sentence in the first paragraph "The world isn’t flat... it’s paved." implies that _____.
选项
A、the world is a round settled planet
B、cities are built by human beings
C、urban life is better than suburban life
D、people prefer to dwell in the countryside
答案
B
解析
根据第1段第2、3句可知,大部分人类喜爱居住的地方都是人类铺起来的。故选项B正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/jdvMFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
TheImportanceofLiteratureI.DefinitionofLiterature—Theword"literature"datesbackto【T1】_____【T1】______—Inconnectio
FourStepsofLearningaForeignLanguageTheeffortsspentinhighschoollearningaforeignlanguagewerealmostfutile.Fortu
FourStepsofLearningaForeignLanguageTheeffortsspentinhighschoollearningaforeignlanguagewerealmostfutile.Fortu
目前,对各种消费的需求量已大大增加。
PASSAGEONEWhatdoesPara.2tellusabouttherestaurantbusinessontheAlentejocoastthroughouttheyear?
TheUnitedStatesisconsideredamultilingualcountrybutithasneveremployedanofficiallanguagepolicy.EventhoughEngl
PASSAGEONEWhat’stheauthor’spurposeofwritingthisarticle?
A、Perfect.B、Businesslike.C、Friendly.D、Acceptable.A根据句(7)可知,主持人向Lida读了投诉信后,Lida评价说,这封投诉信非常完美。因此答案为[A]。
A、Addtheborrowertoyourcreditcards.B、Dipintoyourownsavings.C、Workhardtoearnmoremoney.D、Politelyexplainthesit
A、Howtostopwastingtime.B、Howtodealwithchores.C、Howtofindthingsmisplaced.D、Howtoshoponline.A主持人在对话的开头就提到了本次访谈的
随机试题
根据启闭机结构形式分类,型号“QP-口×口-口/口”表示的是()启闭机。
严重感染导致脓毒症时,可引起哪些器官的功能障碍()
缺牙间隙小,承受力不大,基牙有足够的支持力和固位力可选()
下列哪些可以包括进死亡人的遗产中()。
进口贸易中,应由国内进口商负责租船订舱、支付运费的贸易术语有()。
某教师公寓于1997年12月建成并投入使用,钢筋混凝土剪力墙结构,地上二十八层,地下一层,建筑高度为85.40m,总建筑面积约18472m2。其中地下一层为设备用房、停车库;地上一层为消防控制室、办公室及商业用房;地上二至四层主要为居住用房,部分用于办公;
外汇储备规模过量的影响包括()。Ⅰ.加大本币的基础货币发行,增加货币供给量Ⅱ.可能加剧外资导入型通货膨胀Ⅲ.带来本币升值压力Ⅳ.金融危机
研究表明,遗忘进程是不均衡的,表现为()。
在编制资产负债表时,下列项目中应当填列在“其他流动资产”或“其他流动负债”中的有()
结合材料回答问题:近年来,各种劣质食品的报道几乎隔三岔五地出现,食品安全问题成为民众心目中的一个大隐忧。当前食品市场存在很多问题,导向发生偏差,出现“投利者得利,老实人吃亏”的“逆淘汰”,而“对违法者的宽恕,就是对守法者的打击”。 近日国家食品药品监
最新回复
(
0
)