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To the residents of the island, each section is a hometown. Those who live in the West 70s, 80s, and 90s -- the Upper West Side, though streets run above 200 at the northern tip -- know their neighbourhoods as a cosmopolitan mixture of languages, occupations, and income levels. It is the origin of much of the chaos of the party. On the Upper East Side, east of Central Park, is a different mixture, generally more affluent.
The Chelsea area of the West 20s, with its tenements, renovated brownstones, and huge cooperatives built by labour unions, has a more sedate pace than the East Village and Soho (derived from "south of Houston Street" ), comprising much of the old Lower East Side and containing the city's major concentration of struggling writers and artists. Greenwich Village, the old centre of bohemian life, has become a favourite dwelling place for affluent professionals and successful authors and artists. Harlem means more than just tenements, housing projects, and black politics. It means a vibrant street life ranging from sports to stoop seminars, and it is spiced with luxury apartment houses with doormen, inhabited almost entirely by blacks. Yorkville, in the East 80s, retains pockets of Czech, Hungarian, and German cultures in a clash of old tenements and towering luxury apartment houses. The neighhourhood taverns of the Irish proliferate through Inwood at the northernmost part of the island, where the borough of Manhattan spills over the Harlem River to encompass an enclave of a few square blocks within mainland Bronx. In Inwood lie manhattan's few remaining forested acres, and on open recreation areas the Irish keep alive their national sports of hurling and Gaelic football -- much as courts are maintained for bocciball games in Little Italy many miles to the south. On Morningside Heights around Columbia University, the civilities of the academic world overlook the bleak stretches of Harlem below and to the east and north.
Even fantastic Lower Manhattan, from the Battery, with its ferry slips at the island's tip, to City Halls, has begun taking on the atmosphere of a neighbourhood. Apartment houses have gone up in the vicinity of City Hall, and the overwhelming skyscraper jungle around Wall Street, which is home to hundreds of financial and insurance institutions and some of the nation's largest hanks, exerts international power.
Which of the following statements about Harlem is TRUE？
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His candidate also "will meet the highest standards of intellect, character and ability and will pledge to faithfully interpret the Constitution and laws of our country," the president said.
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SECTION B INTERVIEW
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the interview.
听力原文：Woman: What's the first thing you're going to do, Peter, when you take over the business from your father next year？
Man: Pay much more attention to market research. I've already got my eye on a good man for the job. Father has invested a lot of money in technical research but I still can't make him see how important market research is.
Woman: I've never really understood market research. What is it exactly？
Man: It's simply finding out what customers want. It's no longer any good making the same old product in a new year and saying: "This is what you ought to want. It's well made. It's British. So come and buy it!" That used to be the tendency not so long ago, but nobody thinks like that today. We can't 'afford to. We've got too many competitors.
Woman: Is it going to be a hard struggle then？
Man: Yes, because we--the British, I mean--earn our living by exporting manufactured goods. The trouble is, we can't export without importing raw materials, and we have to buy these with dollars, marks and francs and so on. Then we have to try and sell our products in world markets.
Woman: It seems to me that things will never get any better.
Man: They'll get better if we can increase our productivity, in other words, produce more goods per worker. This will mean that we'll be able to sell more abroad and keep more for ourselves at home. It's this "growth" that so many people are looking for.
Woman: But I thought our economy was growing.
Man: It is, but not as fast as that of many other countries, and that's what matters.
Woman: Why is our growth so poor？
Man: Because we 'all want bigger profits and higher wages and shorter working hours. But to get all these things we need to be more efficient. To begin with, we ought to invest more money in new machinery. Some of our factories are still using machinery that's at least fifty years ago, and in some industries the management is pretty old-fashioned too. Then there are the trade unions--they've got to bring themselves up-to-date. There are far too many unions, and no really effective way of stopping the absurd disagreements they so often have. Besides, the unions have no real control over their members now. About 60% of all our strikes these days start unofficially, even if some of them are made official later. To put it bluntly, unless we increase our efficiency all round, we' 11 never increase our productivity.
Woman: I'm not surprised that factory workers want shorter hours. How would you like to beat panels or turn screws hour 'after hour every day？
Man: I wouldn't. I'd get bored, and I'd think only of my weekly wage packet.
Woman: So naturally our workers are always on strike ! They're bored, and they want more money to spend in their time!
Man: It's a mistake to blame everything on strikes. Actually we have fewer strikes than many other countries. We lost far more working hours through illness and through workers just taking a day off--like all industrial countries. No, what worries me is that there are far too many unnecessarys disagreements between workers, trade unions and management. We haven't yet learned to work together as a team.
Woman: Is that why so many of our industries are dying？
Man: What do you mean "so many of our industries"？ And what do you mean "dying"？
Woman: That's the word you used the other day about coal-mining, and the cotton textile industry.
Man: Why do people get so upset about these industries？ I suppose it's because they used to be our pride and strength. Well, they're not any more, and as far as I am concerned, the sooner people realize it the better. Then,
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
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Police Capt. Muthanna Khaled Ali, the provincial capital, said the gas station blast in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, killed 54 and wounded at least 82 others.
In Baghdad, the Interior Ministry put the casualty count at 51 dead and 82 wounded, but the report was believed based on a preliminary count.
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The blast brought about heavy casualty______.
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