2011年12月英语六级听力真题 短文(2)
日期:2013-05-16 17:27

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Passage Two
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. What does the speaker say about the natives of New York?
31. What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?
32. What do we learn about the settlers of New York?

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重点单词
  • spatn. 贝卵,蚝卵,蚝仔 n. 鞋罩 n. 小争吵,轻打声
  • cornn. 谷物,小麦,玉米 v. 形成(颗粒状),腌,(用谷
  • dwarfn. 矮子,侏儒 vt. 使矮小 vi. 变小
  • commutern. 通勤者,每日往返上班者
  • continuityn. 连续性
  • turbulence动荡 n. 喧嚣,狂暴,骚乱,湍流
  • questn. 探索,寻求 v. 寻找,搜索
  • intenseadj. 强烈的,剧烈的,热烈的
  • dedicationn. 奉献,献词,献堂礼
  • manuscriptadj. 手抄的 n. 手稿,原稿