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[单项选择] A few years ago an Italian friend of mine traveled by train from Boston to Providence. She had only been in America for a couple weeks and hadn’’t seen much of the country yet. She arrived looking astonished. "It’’s so ugly!"
People from other rich countries can scarcely imagine the squalor (肮脏) Of the man-made bits of America. In travel books they show you mostly natural environments: the Grand Canyon, Whitewater rafting, horses in a field. If you see pictures with man-made things in them, it will be either a view of the New York skyline shot from a discreet distance, or a carefully cropped image of a seacoast town in Maine. How can it be, visitors must wonder. How can the richest country in the world look like this
Oddly enough, it may not be a coincidence. Americans are good at some things and bad at others. We’’re good at making movies and software, and bad at making cars and cities. And I think we may be good at what we’’re good at for the same reason we’’re bad at
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
[单项选择]Although a few years ago the fundamental facts about the Milky Way seemed fairly well ______ now even its mass and its radius have come into ______.
A. determined...resolution
B. ignored...danger
C. problematic...prominence
D. diminished...disrepute
E. established...question