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Today there are three different kinds of New Yorkers: the people who act as if they were born here: the people who are here and
Today there are three different kinds of New Yorkers: the people who act as if they were born here: the people who are here and
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2018-05-18
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Today there are three different kinds of New Yorkers: the people who act as if they were born here: the people who are here and wish to be elsewhere: and the collection of virtual New Yorkers all over the world, who wish they were living in New York. These are the three states of mind and what they have in common are longing and illusion. In fact, it’ s a city of dreamers.
What makes New York special? New Yorkers are convinced of its specialness—but Toronto is more diverse, London is larger, Washington is more powerful. So why does New York think it’ s the capital of the world?
People often explain the problems in European cities by citing inequality. But New York today is one of the most unequal cities in America. In 2010, 1 percent of New Yorkers earned 45 percent of its income. That works out to an average of $3.7 million a year for the city’ s top 34,500 households. The average daily income of this group is greater than the average annual income of the city’ s bottom 10 percent.
So why would people still come to try their luck in this tough place? Is it opportunity or illusion that draws them?
They come because any newcomer can find a place in the hierarchy of New York. If you look at a New York City restaurant, for example, the cook might be French, the people washing dishes might be Mexican, the hostess might be Russian, the owner might be British. They are not all equal. They earn different rates. But they work together to get food to hungry people.
What New York demonstrates is this: immigration works. The city can use its immigrants, even the illegal ones. Though they broke the law by illegally crossing the borders, the city’ s economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported. Attracted here by the founding myth of the city, each immigrant is seeking to escape from history, personal and political. For him, New York is the city of the second chance.
The writer mentions the three kinds of New Yorkers to stress that______.
选项
A、they share the same longing
B、they are in pursuit of dreams
C、they are proud of their birthplace
D、they wish to live in another place
答案
B
解析
主旨题。根据第一段内容可知,当今有三种不同类型的纽约人:第一种表现得好像他们生来就在纽约;第二种虽然在纽约却希望生活在别处;第三种是来自全世界的一群希望生活在纽约的虚拟的纽约人。这是三种不同的心态,其共同点是憧憬和幻想。事实上,这是一座梦想家的城市。故选B。
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