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Since Michael Bloomberg became mayor of New York City in 2002, crime—already falling— has gone down by another 35%. Welfare roll

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问题     Since Michael Bloomberg became mayor of New York City in 2002, crime—already falling— has gone down by another 35%. Welfare rolls have fallen by 24%. He has helped to build 130,000 affordable housing units, with more on the way. His 311 call system, a municipal customer-service line, has received 120m calls since 2003. There have been missteps, like his appointment of Cathie Black to head the school system; she lasted a rocky four months on the job. And he never managed to implement congestion charging. Still, most New Yorkers were pleased to see him elected to a third term. Unusually, other cities are finding him useful too.
    His education reforms, which included the opening of 111 charter schools, have become a model for other districts. He co-chairs Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and last year he was appointed chairman of the C40, a group of world cities that are committed to slowing climate change.
    His charity organisation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, is also making an impact on cities. On July 14th it announced a $24m initiative to fund "Innovation Delivery Teams" to help mayor’s solve particular local problems. The idea grew out of a mayors’ summit hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies in March, which highlighted the need for municipal innovation when budgets are tight. Mayors all over the country are struggling with a lack of risk capital and overstretched personnel. Five cities, Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and Louisville—all with strong and fairly new mayors—will each receive $1.4m- $2m a year over the next three years, to spend on staffing the innovation teams.
    Atlanta wants to introduce the 311 system and to tackle homelessness. Memphis wants to reduce handgun violence and to encourage small businesses in certain districts. New Orleans hopes to reduce its horrific homicide rate, and to reduce waiting time for city services. Rahm Emanuel in Chicago is also keen to reduce time wasted. The sooner permits get processed, the quicker, say, a small business can open up and start making money. The Bloomberg funding will also help Mr. Emanuel get an energy-efficiency programme going.
    Greg Fischer in Louisville, Kentucky, who came to office six months ago, wants to pep up the performance of city agencies. His other priority is a partnership with Lexington, long a rival, to devise a new strategy for regional exports. The two cities want to become more globally competitive in advanced car manufacturing. The Brookings Institution is helping them with an economic plan; the Bloomberg money will help the plan get off the ground.
    Bruce Katz of Brookings says cities can no longer afford to compete with each other, but must work together in order to thrive economically. The mayor of New York is giving that philosophy a good push forward.
According to Bruce Katz, the new relation between Louisville and Lexington implies that
选项 A、cooperation leads to a positive development while competition leads to destruction.
B、competition is no longer the value cherished by American culture.
C、competition once contributed to the development of cities but now the opposite is true.
D、cooperation instead of competition can benefit cities in economic development.
答案D
解析 事实细节题。根据题干关键词Bruce Katz定位到第六段第一句。根据第五段可知，Louis—ville和Lexington两座城市曾长期保持敌对关系，在第六段第一句中Bruce Katz对此评论说，城市间再也经不起相互竞争了。要想实现经济上的繁荣，必须联合起来共同努力。因此[D]“合作而非竞争能使城市在经济发展方面受益”正确。原文虽对城市间合作给予了充分肯定，但并未说竞争就会造成毁灭，因此排除[A]；关于竞争，第六段认为竞争代价太大，城市已无力担负，但并未说竞争再也不是美国文化珍视的价值观了，故排除[B]；[C]“竞争曾对城市发展做出贡献，但现在却起了相反作用”属于主观臆断，故排除。
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