| st of xenophobia is not entirely absent. For Frankfurt—like Germany, like Europe—is strug??gling to define a shifting identity.
As the departed US soldiers suggest, this city is no longer part of a Cold War country living what Safer Seneca, a German intellectual of Turkish descent, has called a quasi a-national exis??tence under the umbrella of the West. Far from it, this is now the financial center of a strong Germany seeking to define and express a new national pride.
But Frankfurt is also the capital of a unique experiment in abolishing the nation-state through the voluntary abandonment of sovereignty involved in giving up national control of monetary poli??cy and adopting a common currency.
So the Continent's largest state, on reborn only in 1990, yet also one that is being abolished, veers, this way and that in its mood, one minute nostalgic for a proud Fatherland, the next in the vanguard of what Foreign Minister Joshua Fischer, himself a child of Frankfurt, calls a post-national era.
31. Frankfurt is referred to as aglobal citylike New York because of______________
[A] the foreign banks and businesses
[B] the number of foreigners in the city
[C] the 80,000 Muslims and mosques
[D] the refugees from former Yugoslavia
32. Quietly flows the Main River beneath that mock-New World skyline probably means that .
[A] The new central bank had a large inflow of funds
[B] The city life goes on quietly without racial conflicts
[C] The population moves quietly in the street of the city
[D] The foreigners come to the city like a flow of river
33. The word xenophobia probably means ____________ .
[A] fear of war [B] psychological nervousness
[C] hatred of foreigners [D] open, can-do spirit
34. With the end of the Cold War, Germany is expected to_____________ .
[A] remain under the umbrella of the U S
[B] assume a new national pride
[C] become the financial center of Europe
[D] have surges of rightist killings
35. The unique experiment of European Union requires Germany to_____________ .
[A] enter a post-national era
[B] return to the old proud Fatherland
[C] abandon sovereignty and government
[D] seek a shifting identity
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