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50 cents.[听力原文]New York now gets the only aerial cable cars in the United States that are part of an urban mass transit system.The new streetcars in the sky connect Manhattan with Roseville Island, a former little-used chunk of land in the middle of the East River that is now the site of an attractive residential complex.About 1,000 people already live in the New town on the island, and they welcomed the opening of the tramway—an aerial link 945 meters long. Red and White cars carry them aloft and deposit them just three and a half minutes later in Manhattan, where they can proceed to their jobs by bus or subway. The tramway fare is 50 cents.Once aboard, the passenger door slides shut and the cable car gently rises to its cruising height of 41 meters above ground for the journey at a speed of 26 kilometers an hour. Streets and shops begin to slip past underneath. At Roseville Island, the car slows to settle into the station.Each car carries 125 passengers. The tramway operates from 6 am to 2 am daily with cars running continuously in the morning and evening rush hours, and every 15 minutes at other times.Roseville Islanders would appear to have the best of city living—a pleasant, well-planned community with a sense of its own space around it, with magnificent views of Manhattan s famous skylines, yet just minutes from the city s busying streets.
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170.[听力原文]New York is one of the last large American cities to have some of its policemen on horseback. The New York police have 170 horses that they use in certain parts of the city.The horses are expensive to feed, but it is even more expensive to take care of them. Because the horses must walk on the streets, they need special horseshoes. In fact, they need more than 8,000 of them each year. Every police horse in New York gets new shoes every month. Keeping these shoes in good repair is the job of six blacksmiths. There are only about thirty-five of these blacksmiths in the whole United States.The cost of shoeing a horse is between twenty dollars and thirty-five dollars, and it takes a skilled blacksmith two to three horns to do the job.A blacksmith s job is not an easy one. He must be able to shape a shoe from a piece of plain metal and then fit it to the horse s hoof. The blacksmith must bend over all the time he is fitting the shoe and must hold the weight of the horse s leg while he works. Clearly, a blacksmith must be very strong. But even more important, he must be able to deal with horses— for before the blacksmith can begin his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg.One of the blacksmiths in New York is James Corbin, who came to this country from Ireland in 1948. He not only shoes horses for the police, he also works for a race track and for a group of horse owners who live near the city. Corbin became interested in blacksmithing because his father did it, and, as he puts it, It s a good way to make a living.
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