Immigrants to New York used to be
greeted with signs like "Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply." But these days,
newcomers from Dublin are more likely to be mobbed by luxury property developers
trying to hawk them ＄1 million condos (a handful of new buildings in the city
are marketed mainly to rich Irish). Manhattan, like other posh areas of America,
is now full of homes meant for foreigners. One in five American real estate
agents sold a house to an expatriate last year. The reason is obvious: From Rio
to Riyad, dollar assets are a bargain.
The shift, which has been
coming for several years now and will be much discussed at the World Economic
Forum in Davos this week, is seismic. Since the end of World War Ⅱ, the dollar’s
unique role as the international currency has afforded Americans a tremendously
privileged place in the
A. 20% of them were sold to foreigners last year.
B. Many of them were built for foreign buyers.
C. They were mainly targeted at buyers from Dublin.
D. The prices are falling down sharply.
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Immigrants to New York used to be
greeted with signs like "Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply." But these days,
newcomers from Dublin are more likely to be mobbed by luxury property developers
trying to hawk them ＄1 million condos (a handful of new buildings in the city
are marketed mainly to rich Irish). Manhattan, like other posh areas of America,
is now full of homes meant for foreigners. One in five American real estate
agents sold a house to an expatriate last year. The reason is obvious: From Rio
to Riyad, dollar assets are a bargain.
The shift, which has been
coming for several years now and will be much discussed at the World Economic
Forum in Davos this week, is seismic. Since the end of World War Ⅱ, the dollar’s
unique role as the international currency has afforded Americans a tremendously
privileged place in the
A. promoting international travel.
B. encouraging consumption abroad.
C. increasing financial aids to poor countries.
D. earning a unique place in the world.
[单项选择]A) Tokyo. C) Los Angeles.
B) New York. D) Singapore.
[填空题]Several small earthquakes were predicted in New York State, in the______(east) part of the U. S. A.
[填空题]The book The Play of Power was published by New York St. Martin’s Press in 1996.
[填空题]The main center of the "hillbilly music" is New York.
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M: Excuse me, Is there an airline flying to New York this afternoon
W: Sorry, sir. I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.
M: If your computer is down, just write me a ticket.
W: Sorry, I can’t. The computer is the only one allowed doing so.
M: Hmm... Then what do all you people do
W: We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.
M: So when it goes down, you go down with it
W: That’s very good, sir.
M: How long will the computer be down
W: Sorry, I’ve got no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes; sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down, it won’t answer us.
M: Well, let’s forget the computer. Is there any other airline flying to New York within the next few hours
W: I wouldn’t know. Only the
A. To give the computer the information about his trip.
B. To know what is wrong with the computer.
C. To buy a ticket for New York.
[单项选择] {{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} No matter what you write,
your mother will always believe it’s about her. So said author Ann Beattie
a few years ago at a book talk in Connecticut. You could write about a family of
dogs living on Mars, Beattie went on, and your mother will be convinced that she
is the mother dog. (And who are we kidding, she probably is. )
Amy Tan is a writer who has fully embraced this concept. Her first novel,
The Joy Luck Club, plumbed the gulf between American daughters and their Chinese
mothers. Now, after the death of her own mother, Tan has returned to these
themes with a renewed poignancy and lyricism in The Bonesetters
Daughter. In recent magazine interviews and the novel’s
foreword, she makes it clear how much she has drawn from her own life. Like her
heroine, Ruth, Tan experienced yearly bouts of psychosomatic laryngitis--unable
to speak for days at a time. And like Ruth, Tan didn’t learn her mothers’ real A. their generation gap B. their cultural clash C. Luling’s superstitions D. Luling’s disease
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