1、Those ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple, those T-shirts with a heart design proclaiming ―I love New York, are signs, patheticin their desperation, of how the mighty has fallen.
A、Possible
B、annoying
C、pitiful
D、passionate
2、New York was never a good conventioncity.
A、conscience
B、contention
C、 consciousness
D、meeting
3、To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lose is to live in jostling proximityto the frustrated majority.
A、distance
B、appropriateness
C、closeness
D、approximation
4、Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroachingcement and petrol fumes.
A、invading
B、inducing
C、poisonous
D、encompassing
5、A testing of oneself, a fear of giving in to the most banaland marketable of one’s talents, still draws many of the young to New York.
A、boring
B、excellent
C、extraordinary
D、ordinary
6、In both these roles it ratifiesmore than it creates.
A、opposes
B、critizes
C、produces
D、approves
7、New Yorkis a wounded city, declining in its amenities.
A、agreements
B、facilities
C、gadgets
D、equipment
8、So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquiland luxurious, that shut out the world.
A、serene
B、crowed
C、noisy
D、transparent
9、To him New York- despite its faults, which her will impatiently concede(―so what else is new? — is the spoiler of all other American cities.
A、admit
B、condescend
C、conceal
D、contend
10、The place constantly exasperates, at times exhilarates .
A、excites
B、denies
C、annoys
D、regrets
