The telecity is a city whose life, direction, and functioning are largely shaped by telecommunications. In the twenty first century, cities will be based more and more on an economy that is dependent on services and intellectual property. Telecommunications and information networks will define a city's architecture, shape, and character. Proximity in the telecity will be defined by the speed and bandwidth of networks as much as by geographical propinquity. In the age of the telecity, New York and Singapore may be closer than, say, New York and Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Telecities will supersede megacities for several reasons, including the drive toward clean air, reducing pollution, energy conservation, more jobs based on services, and coping with the high cost of urban property. Now we must add the need to cope with terrorist threats in a high-technology world.
Western mind-sets were clearly jolted in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and attacks in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and else where. But the risks posed by twentieth-century patterns of urbanization and architecture have ye to register fully with political figures and leaders of industry. The Pentagon, for example, has been rebuilt in situation rather than distributed to multiple locations and connected by secure landlines and broadband wireless systems. Likewise, the reconstruction of the World Trade Center complex still represents a massive concentration of humanity and infrastructure. This is a remarkably shortsighted and dangerous vision of the future.
The security risks, economic expenses, and environmental hazards of over-centralization are everywhere, and they do not stop with skyscrapers and large governmental structures. There are risks also at seaports and airports, in food and water supplies, at nuclear power plants and hydroelectric turbines at major dams, in transportation systems, and in information and communications systems.
This vulnerability applies not only to terrorist threats but also to human error, such as system-wide blackouts in North America in August 2003 and in Italy in September 2003, and natural disasters such as typhoons, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. Leaders and planners are only slowly becoming aware that overcentralized facilities are the most vulnerable to attack or catastrophic destruction.
There is also growing awareness that new broadband electronic systems now allow governments and corporations to safeguard their key assets and people in new and innovative ways. So far, corporations have been quickest to adjust to these new realities, and some governments have begun to adjust as well.
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A.The telecity is a TV manufacturing city.
B.The telecity is a city of the speed and bandwidth of networks.
C.Singapore is closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas is in telecity age.
D.Singapore is actually closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
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The only city on the western coast which has a population of more than one million is()
A . Darwin
B . Perth
C . the Gold Coast
D . Brisbane
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In a GLBP network, who is responsible for the arp request?()
A . AVF
B . AVG(active virtual gateway)
C . Active Router
D . Standby Router
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The carrier is the owner or Charterer who enters into a contract with().
A . the consignee
B . the cargo owner
C . the shipper
D . the consignor
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The person on a ship who is responsible for maintaining the engineering spaces in a clean and sanitary condition is the().
A . Master,or person in charge
B . Chief Engineer,or engineer in charge if no chief engineer is required
C . Senior mechanic,or mechanic on duty if no senior mechanic designated
D . Senior electrician,or electrician on duty if no senior electrician designated
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Canberra is a picturesque city on the banks of ( ).
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Who is the author of “A Psalm of Life”?
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Who is the writer of the novel “西游记” (A Journey to the West)?
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The
change of a city is ____ a change in its becoming more beautiful and fashionable.
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The government has announced that a modern city will be set up in _____ is still a wasteland now.
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The person who gives you a job is _ .
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智慧职教: Beijing,________________ is the capital of China,is a beautiful city.
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There is a universial official formula to decide the tiers of the cities.
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This is a river closely ___________ to the lives of the people of the city.
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______is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.
A.Sister Carrie
B.A Modern Instance
C.Daisy Miller
D.The Gilded Age
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Language is a city, to the building of _____ every human being brought a stone
A.that
B.it
C.this
D.which
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The city is surrounded by a mountain range.(英译中)
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Who was responsible for the building of the famous cathedral in the city?
A.The Roman colonisers.
B.The Saxons.
C.The Normans.
D.Alfred the Great.
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The person who is least likely to be a child-abusing parent is the one who____.
A.was raised in abusive family situations himself
B.creates a peaceful and supportive family environment for his children
C.is unemployed or socially isolated
D.is mentally ill
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Everyone who has visited the city agrees that it is_____with life.
A.vibrant
B.violent
C.energetic
D.full
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I am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we would prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. I have managed to convince myself that if it weren't for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village buried in the country. But how realistic is the dream?
Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population lives in massive tower blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a community tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your window is sky, or other blocks of flats. Children become aggressive and nervous—cooped up at home all day, with nowhere to play; their mothers feel isolated from the rest of the world. Strangely enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on tire same floor in tower blocks don't even say hello to each other.
Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally binds the inhabitants of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are cut off from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There's little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go on an expedition to the nearest large town. The city-dweller who leaves for the country is often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quietness.
What, then, is the answer? The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantage of being cut off; the city breeds a feeling of isolation, and constant noise batters the senses. But one of its main advantages is that you are at the centre of things; and that life doesn't come to an end at half past nine at night. Some people have found(or rather bought) a compromise between the two: they have expressed their preference for the "quiet life" by leaving the suburbs and moving to villages within commuting distance of large cities. They generally have about as much sensitivity as the plastic flowers they leave behind—they are polluted with strange ideas about change and improvement which they force on to the unwilling original inhabitants of the village.
What then of my dreams of leaning on a cottage gate and murmuring "morning" to the locals as they pass by? I'm keen on the idea, but you see there's my cat, Toby. I'm not at all sure that he would take to all that fresh air and exercise in the long grass. I mean, can you see him mixing with all those hearty males down the farm? No, he would rather have the electric imitation-coal fire any evening.
One of the disadvantages of living in high-rise buildings is that ______.
A.the parents may become violent and difficult to put up with
B.the residents may not have a good view from their windows
C.the residents may become indifferent to their neighbors
D.the children may become too frustrated to be controlled
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__________ tells the story of a rudderless but pretty small-town girl who comes to the big city Chicago filled with vague ambitions, who is used by men and uses them in turn to become a successful Broadway actress.
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Among the following poets, who is NOT a lake poet?()
A、Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B、Robert Southey
C、William Wordsworth
D、William Colins
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Louln City is nottll__________ trveler who hs never seen the desert before cn expect.th9.Louln City is nottll__________ trveler who hs never seen the desert before cn expect.tht B.wht C.which D.Where
A.that
B.what
C.which
D.Where
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In the United States, a(n) general is the chief lawyer in a city or government department()
A.senator
B.solicitor
C.councilor
D.inspector