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  3. It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is unbelievable. Every time the residents brush their teeth, million

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is unbelievable. Every time the residents brush their teeth, million

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问题     It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is unbelievable. Every time the residents brush their teeth, millions of gallons of water must be consumed. When a young man in Manhattan writes a letter to his girl in Brooklyn, the love message gets blown to her through a pneumatic (充气的) tube-- pfft--just like that. The underground system of telephone cables, power lines, steam pipes, gas pipes is reason enough to abandon the island to the gods and tile beetles. Every time a cut is made on the street, the noisy surgeons expose ganglia (神经中枢)that are twisted beyond belief.
    By rights New York should have destroyed itself long ago, from terror or fire or failure of some vital supply lines in its circulatory system or from some deep complex short circuit. Long ago the city should have experienced an insoluble traffic confusion at some impassable bottle-neck. It should have died of hunger when food lines failed for a few days. It should have been wiped out by widespread diseases starting  in its dirty blocks or carried in by ships’ rats. It should have been swallowed by the sea that licks at it on every side. The workers in its innumerable cells should have gone mad, from the fearful darkness of smoke-fog that drifted over every few days from the Jersey, darkening all light at noon and leaving the high offices suspended, men groping (摸索) and depressed, and the sense of world’s end. It should have been touched in the head by the August heat and become crazy.
What does the passage mainly talk about?
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答案New York’s survival is miraculous
解析 本文首段第一句就说明了该短文的主题。在回答有关主题句时，首先得确定文章的主题句。主题句通常起简明扼要地概括一篇文章的中心思想的作用。因此，在回答此类问题时，第一步应该是参考主题句。可摘抄主题句或用自己的语言说明主题句的主要意思。
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