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  3. It might appear to any casual visitor who may have taken a few rides about town in a taxicab that all New Yorkers are filled wit

It might appear to any casual visitor who may have taken a few rides about town in a taxicab that all New Yorkers are filled wit

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问题     It might appear to any casual visitor who may have taken a few rides about town in a taxicab that all New Yorkers are filled with a loudmouthed ill will towards each other. The fact of the matter is, though, that however cold and cruel things seem on the surface, there has never been a society of people in all history with so much compassion for its fellow man. It clothes, feeds, and houses 15 percent of its own because 1. 26 million people in New York are unable to do it for themselves. You couldn’t call that cold or cruel.
    Everyone must have seen pictures at least of the great number of poor people who live in New York. And it seems strange, in view of this, that so many people come here seeking their fortune. But if anything about the city’s population is more expressive than the great number of poor people, it’s the great number of rich people. There’s no need to search for buried treasure in New York. The great American dream is out in the open for everyone to see and to reach for. It must be because even those people who can never realistically believe they’ll get rich themselves can still dream about it. And they respond to the hope of getting what they see others having. Their hope alone seems to be enough to sustain them. The woman going into Tiffany’s to buy another diamond pin can pass within ten feet of a man without money enough for lunch. They are oblivious to (不在意) each other. He feels no envy; she no remorse.
    There’s a disregard for the past in New York that dismays even a lot of New Yorkers. It’s true that no one pays much attention to antiquity. The immigrants who came here came for something new, and what New York used to be means nothing to them. Their heritage is somewhere else.
    Old million-dollar buildings are constantly being torn down and replaced by new fifty-million-dollar ones. In London, Rome, Paris, much of the land has only been built on once in all their long history. In relatively new New York, some lots have already been built on four times.
    Because strangers only see New Yorkers in move, they leave with the impression that the city is in one great mindless rush to nowhere. They complain that it’s moving too fast, but they don’t notice that it’s getting there first. For better and for worse, New York has been where the rest of the country is going.
The author’s purpose in writing this text is to______.
选项 A、criticize New York
B、praise New York
C、introduce New York to visitors
D、express sympathy with New Yorkers
答案B
解析 主旨题。作者在文章中既讲了纽约的缺点，也讲了它的优点。可是通读全文可知，作者每当列出纽约的一个缺点之后，马上都有一个用“however”或“but”引导的转折，然后说所谓的这些缺点，只不过是游客、陌生人等不了解纽约的人留下的表面印象，事实上纽约与他们的印象正好相反，如：具有同情心、美国梦人人平等、追求新东西、运动最快、领先地位等，这些在作者看来都是优点，而非缺点。所以作者在此旨在为纽约辩护，即在夸赞纽约，故选B。
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