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Imagine an immensely, speeded-up movie of Manhattan Island during the last hundred years. It would look less like a work of man than like some tremendous natural upheaval. It’s godless, it’s brutal, it’s violent - but one can’t laugh it off because in the energy, strength of will and mental grasp that have gone to make New York, materialism has transcended itself. Dorothy Wordsworth said about the view of London from Westminster Bridge, that “it was like one of Nature’s own grand spectacles.” Well, nature is violent and brutal, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
But New York, after all, was made by men. It took almost the same time to reach its present condition as it did to create the Gothic cathedral. At which point a very obvious reflection crosses one’s mind: that the cathedrals were built to the glory of God, while New York was built to the glory of Mammon - money, gain, the new god of the nineteenth century. So many of the same human ingredients have gone into its construction that at a distance it looks like a celestial city. At a distance. Come closer and it’s not so good.
The passage and its title indicate that the city of New York is ________.
根据第二段后半部分可知，“At a distance. Come closer and it’s not so good”，纽约城从远处看起来 好像天上之城，但走近会发现它没有那么美好。
Paragraph One likens the building of New York to ________.
根据第一段第二句可知，“It would look less like a work of man than like some tremendous natural upheaval”，纽约城的变化看起来更像是自然剧变，而不是人类的成果。
In the second paragraph, the writer suggests to the reader that ________.
根据第二段后半部分并结合全文可知，纽约城的生活质量并不如它的外表那么光鲜。
Which of the following is NOT suggested in the passage as being a feature of New York?
根据全文可知，文中没有提到纽约城在政治上的重要性。