第十四篇：Heartbeat of America

第十四篇：Heartbeat of America1New York一the Statue of Liberty1, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue2 and the many theaters on Broadway3. This is America's cultural capital. It is also her biggest city, with a population of nearly 8 million. In the summer it is hot, hot, hot and in the winter it can be very cold. Still there are hundreds of things to do and see all the year round.2MAnhittan is the real center of the city. When people say New York City", they usually mean Manhattan. Most of the interesting shops, buildings and museums are here. In addition, Manhattan is the scene of New York's busy night life. In 1605, the first Europeans came to Manhattan from Hollland. They bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glassnecklaces worth about $26 today.3Wall Street in Manhattan is the financial heart of the USA. It. is also the most important banking center in the world. It is a street of "skyscrapers". These are those incredible, highbuildings, which Americans invented, and built faster and higher than anyone else. Perhaps the two most spectacular skyscrapers in New York are the two towers Of the New York World Trade Center4. When the sun sets, their 110 floors shine like pure gold.4Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It's usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. Thesubway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. Taxis do not go outside the city. However, they will go to the airports. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a tip of 15 percent of the fare's value.5Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New York's concrete desert. It is surprisingly big, with lakes and woods, as well as organized recreation areas. New Yorkers loveCentral Park, and they use it all the time. In the winter, they goice-skating, and in the summer roller-skating. They play ball, ride horses and have picnics. They go bicycling and boating. There is even a children's zoo, with wild birds and anithls.6Along the east side of Central Park runs Fifth Avenue, once called"Millionaire's Row." In the 19th century, the richest men in Anerica built their magnificent homes here. It is still the most fashionable street in the city .with famous denartment stores.7Broadway is the street where you will tmd New York's best-known theaters. But away from the bright lights and elegant clothes of Broadway are many smaller theaters. Their plays arecalled"off-Broad-way" and are often more unusual than the Broadway shows. As well as many theaters, New York has a famous opera nouse. tins is meMetropontan5，wnere internanonai stars sing from September until April. Carnegie Hall6 is the city's more popular concert hall. But night life in New York offers more than classical music and theater. There are hundreds of nightclubs where people go to eat and dance."词汇：heartbeat /'ha: tbi: t/n．心搏necklace /'neklis/ n．项链worth /wə:θ/ adj．有……价值的incredible /in'kredəbl / adj．难以置信的fare /feə/ n．车费oasis /əu'eisis/ n．绿洲roller-skating /'rəuləskeitiŋ/ n．滑旱冰注释：1．the Statue of Liberty：自由女神塑像2．Fifth Avenue：第五大道，纽约的高档购物街3．Broadway：百老汇4．the New York World Trade Center：纽约世界贸易中心5．Metropolitan：大都会歌剧院6．Carnegie Hall：卡内基音乐厅练习：1．Paragraph 3 _________.2．Paragraph 4 _________.3．Paragraph 5 _________.4．Paragraph 6 _________.5．The island of Manhattan was bought by the Hollanders from the native Americans _________.6．Central Park is a good place where the New Yorkers can go and _________.7．Fifth Avenue is the place _________.8．For those play-lovers who are interested, in what is unusual, the small theaters might be attractive _________.2014年职称英语教材综合类概括大意与完成句子第十四篇：Heartbeat of America答案与题解：l．A 本段讲的是有关华尔街的情况，华尔街是美国的金融中心。

2．C这一段介绍了纽约的交通设施，如地铁、公共汽车和出租车，以及乘坐时应注意的地方。

3．F第五段集中介绍了中央公园。

4．D这一段不长，简单地介绍了纽约的第五大街，这是富人的购物天堂。

5．F原句在语法上已经完整，填入的部分是有关价格的，当时荷兰人买下曼哈顿的价钱在今天看来仅是个微不足道的小数。

表示价格用介词for，这里for的后面跟的是what引导的名词性从句。

6．A这里填入的是和动词go并列的成分，在所给的六个选项中符合条件的只有A和D，但从意义上看应该填入的是A。

7．E place提示了后面很有可能是一个用where引导的定语从句，在六个选项中有两个用where开始的从句，但B的意义显然不符，故应选E。

8．C句中的more attractive提示了后面很可能有用than引导的从句。