问题
单项选择题
Passage One
| 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 iii 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 1ot of New Yorkers. It’s true that no one pays much attention to antiquity. The immigrants who came here came for some thing 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. |
It is implied in the second paragraph that_____.
A．there are more rich people than poor people in New York city
B．it’s easy to get rich in New York because the American dream is out in the open for everyone
C．in New York, the poor resent the rich, and the rich feel remorse about their wealth
D．the rich and poor both have a place and seem to get along in New York
答案
参考答案：D
解析：推断题。从第二段最后两句：一位在名店中购买钻石胸针的妇女，可能在lo英尺之内与一个没钱吃午饭的人擦肩而过，可他们对彼此都不在意，他不感到妒忌，她也不感到怜悯，可判断 D为正确答案。穷人和富人的数量没有比较，故A不正确；虽然每个人都可以做美国梦，但在纽约致富并不是件容易的事，故B也不正确；而C与文章意思相反。