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. [单项选择]A. New York. B. Liverpool. C. Los Angeles. D. London.
[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.
[单项选择]
M: Excuse me, Is there an airline flying to New York this afternoon [单项选择]
Thousands of writers in Los Angeles and New York went on strike this week, risking their incomes and careers. They want more money for their work when it is used online than Hollywood studios are willing to pay. Because the strike is over matters of principle, not just dollars and cents, it could last for months. The immediate effect was to shut down late-night talk shows, including "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". 我来回答: 提交
|