Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.A) attracted E) extended I) pulled M) surplusB) civilian F) inhabitants J) removed N) transportC) commute G) inherent K) residential O) vigorouslyD) dividend H) investors L) scarcelyMass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It speeded up physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the _______ 26 _______ instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for _______ 27 _______ expansion, the buses, railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys _______ 28 _______ settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centres than they were in the pre-modern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay _______ 29 _______ two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius _______ 30 _______ ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far _______ 31 _______ from the old city centre and still _______ 32 _______ there for work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery (外圈) of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl (城市蔓延).Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge _______ 33 _______ of subdivided, but vacant, land around many cities. These excesses present a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass transportation: Urban sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small _______ 34 _______ who paid little care to coordinated land use or to future land users.Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and middle-class _______ 35 _______ were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it.
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
A) attracted E) extended I) pulled M) surplus
B) civilian F) inhabitants J) removed N) transport
C) commute G) inherent K) residential O) vigorously
D) dividend H) investors L) scarcely
Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It speeded up physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the _______ 26 _______ instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for _______ 27 _______ expansion, the buses, railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys _______ 28 _______ settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centres than they were in the pre-modern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay _______ 29 _______ two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius _______ 30 _______ ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far _______ 31 _______ from the old city centre and still _______ 32 _______ there for work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery (外圈) of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl (城市蔓延).
Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge _______ 33 _______ of subdivided, but vacant, land around many cities. These excesses present a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass transportation: Urban sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small _______ 34 _______ who paid little care to coordinated land use or to future land users.
Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and middle-class _______ 35 _______ were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it.