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  3. In November 1965, New York was blacked out by an electricity failure. The authorities promised that it would not happen again. P

In November 1965, New York was blacked out by an electricity failure. The authorities promised that it would not happen again. P

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问题    In November 1965, New York was blacked out by an electricity failure. The authorities promised that it would not happen again. Pessimists were certain that it would occur again within five years at the latest. In July 1997,there was a repeat performance which produced varying degrees of chaos throughout the city of eight million people. In 1965,the failure occurred in the cool autumn and at a time of comparative prosperity. In 1997,tha disaster was much more serious because it came when unemployment was high and the city was suffering from one of its worst heat waves.
   In 1965, there was little crime or looting during the darkness, and fewer than a hundred people were arrested. In 1997, hundreds of stores were broken into and looted. Looters smashed shop windows and helped themselves to jewelry, clothes or television sets. Nearly 4 000 people were arrested but far more disappeared into the darkness of the night. The number of policemen available was quite inadequate and they wisely refrained from using their guns against mobs which far outnumbered them and included armed men.
   Hospitals had to treat hundreds of people cut by glass from shop windows. Banks and most businesses remained closed the next day. The blackout started at 9:30 p.m., when lightning hit and knocked out vital cables. Many stores were thus caught by surprise.
   The vast majority of New Yorkers, however, were not involved in looting. They helped strangers, distributed candles and batteries, and tried to survive in a nightmare world without traffic lights, refrigerators, elevators, water and electrical power. For twenty-four hours, New York realized how helpless it was without electricity.
In what way was the blackout of 1997 not really a repeat performance?
选项 A、There was much more disorder.
B、This time the electricity supply failed.
C、It was quite unexpected.
D、It did not occur within five years of 1965.
答案A
解析 分析推理题。在第一段第四句指出1997年的停电事故后，文章其他部分都是在对比两次停电事故的异同。由该段最后一句中的much more serious及后面三段引用的数字可以看出1997年的停电事故引发了更多的动荡，因此选[A] 。其余三项都是事实，但都不是两次事故的差异所在。
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