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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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2010-07-24
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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. The underground system of telephone cables, power lines, steam pipes, gas pipes is reason enough to abandon the island to the gods and the 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 author imply when he says that "millions of gallons of water must be consumed" ?
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The population is very large
解析
简答题中多数问题所涉及的是细节问题,即根据文章中某一段或某几句提问。在回答问题前,我们先得找到所提问的部分。通过浏览上下文确定答案部分。切记,确定答题部分后,不要轻易照抄原文。特别当问句是要求我们答出隐含的意思时,完全照搬是行不通的。如回答本问题时,我们显然不能直接答出"the residents brush the teeth"。问句中的imply一词表明此问题不能从字面来理解的。刷牙都要用掉数百万加仑的水,这说明纽约的人口有多么的多。
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大学英语四级
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