【正文】 k hawkers, who, after supposedly being scaled back at the beginning of the modernization drive, still clog the sidewalks, selling absolutely everything—or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely everything but umbrellas.“The government was the government of the poor people,” one sardar told me.“Now they shake hands with the capitalists and try to get rid of poor people.”But others in Kolkata believe that rickshaws will simply be confined more strictly to certain neighborhoods, out of the view of World Bank traffic consultants and California investment delegations—or that they will be allowed to die out naturally as they’re supplanted by more modern Bhattacharjee, after all, is not the first high West Bengal official to say that rickshaws would be off the streets of Kolkata in a matter of statements have been made as far back as ban decreed by Bhattacharjee has been delayed by a court case and by a widely held belief that some retraining or social security settlement ought to be offered to rickshaw may also have been delayed by a quiet reluctance to give up something that has been part of the fabric of the city for more than a , a resident told me, “has difficulty letting go.” One day a city official handed me a report from the municipal government laying out options for how rickshaw pullers might be rehabilitated.“Which option has been chosen?” I asked, noting that the report was dated almost exactly a year before my visit.“That hasn’t been decided,” he said.“When will it be decided?”“That hasn’t been decided,” he to the passage, rickshaws are used in Kolkata mainly for the following EXCEPT foreign tourists around the transport to school store supplies and purchases people over short of the following statements best describes the rickshaw pullers from Bihar? e from a relatively poor are provided with decent living standards are very low in are often caught by policemen in the “For someone without land or education, that still beats trying to make a living in Bihar”(4 paragraph)means that even so, poor prefer to work and live in poor from Bihar fare better than back poor never try to make a living in poor never seem to resent their life in can infer from the passage that some educated and politically aware people mixed feelings towards support the ban on for humanitarian actions fro rickshaw quiet on the issue of banning of the following statements conveys the author’s sense of humor? A.“?not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor.”(2 paragraph)B.“?,.which sounds like a pretty good deal until you’ve visited a dera.”(4 paragraph), a resident told me, “ has difficulty letting go.”(7 paragraph).D.“?or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely everything but umbrellas.”(6 paragraph) dialogue between the author and the city official at the end of the passage seems to suggest uncertainty of the court’s inefficiency of the municipal difficulty of finding a good slowness in processing B Depending on whom you believe, the average American will, over a lifetime, wait in lines for two years(says National Public Radio)or five years(according to customerloyalty experts).The crucial word is average, as wealthy Americans routinely avoid lines the most democratic of institutions, lines are rapidly being the exclusive province of suckers(people who still believe in and practice waiting in lines).Poor suckers, resemble France before the Revolution: firstclass passengers enjoy “233。s first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is early as elementary school, we39。and, as he stood hesitating a moment, half dazed, there came, bowing, s sleek grave man, older than he was and far more distinguished than he could ever hope to be, who murmured deferentially: “ For one, sir? This way, please,” Shyly, yet proudly, Turgis followed “behind the thin marble front were concrete and steel” suggests that realistic mercialism existed behind the luxurious was a fundamental falseness in the style and the appeal of the caf233。 is pared to warm author’s attitude to the caf233。primitive39。不然，默契和平衡將被打破, 友好關(guān)系將不復(fù)存在。and no living creature was to be seen except that in the green churchyard there were cattle tranquilly reposing upon the graves, and particularly round about the grave of a child whom I had once tenderly loved, just as I had really seen them, a little before sunrise in the same summer, when that child ；那天是復(fù)活節(jié)，一個大清早上。9 mood。9 as important去掉as。PART VI WRITING The important role of a city’s local conditions in the urban design Recently there is a hot debate on a report that a foreign design pany invited by a littleknown mountainous area in Guiyang provided a design without paying too much attention to the city’s unique people appreciate the bold innovation of the design but others do not like my opinion, any urban design should take the city’s original cultural heritage into designers should suit their design to local conditions and try to take advantage of the local , a city’s regional characteristics or local cultural heritage are its symbol, its a mountainous area, too many unconventional, superfuturistic buildings will not be patible with the city’s these landscapes, it is just another so called modern city posed of concrete and Beijing for the past few years, Beijing has been removing a large number of such alleys traditionally called hutong, in order to make it bee a real international without these hutongs can this city still be called Beijing, an ancient capital? The disappearance of hutongs means the disappearance of a period of history, a cordial lifestyle, and even the disappearance of Beijing Beijing will lose its , it can help a city save a lot of money by suiting the design to local conditions and try to take advantage of the local is especially important to small cities, like this one in a mountainous area near all know Guiyang is a developing city