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  3. Capital City and Smithsville are two fairly large towns in the Midwest near Chicago. Neither is as well known as Chicago. (1)___

Capital City and Smithsville are two fairly large towns in the Midwest near Chicago. Neither is as well known as Chicago. (1)___

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问题     Capital City and Smithsville are two fairly large towns in the Midwest near Chicago. Neither is as well known as Chicago. (1)_____ the inhabitants of both are equally proud of their (2)_____ hometown.
    People in Capital City love its quiet narrow (3)_____ streets and its many small neighborhood parks, the boast (4)_____ their hometown has no ugly slums, a low rate (5)_____ crime, and very little heavy traffic. Because it is the seat of the state legislature, Capital City has many stately old buildings—(6)_____ the lawyer’s club in the park by the lake, and the country museum (7)_____ its pioneer farm exhibits.
    Smithsville, (8)_____,is a bustling, thriving, industrial center. It too has a lake, but (9)_____ that of Capital City, its lake is the center of the city’s industrial development. (10)_____ trees and park benches, Smithsville’s lake is surrounded by factories and smoking chimneys. Smithsville is also (11)_____ its quieter neighbour in its style of (12)_____. The tall modern office buildings downtown, the new shopping center in the suburbs, and the wide crowded streets seem (13)_____ to Smithsville’s residents than the old-fashioned neighbourhoods (14)_____.
    When people from the more rural city (15)_____ from a visit to Smithsville, they always say, "I’m glad to be home again. That lake makes me (16)_____. It’s a fine place to visit, (17)_____ I wouldn’t want to live (18)_____". (19)_____ a visit to Capital City, citizens of Smithsville say (20)_____ the same.

选项 A、Besides
B、Taken into account
C、Instead of
D、As for
答案C
解析 instead of表示一种替代关系，可译为"不是…，没有…"，本句意为：没有树和公园的板凳。Smithsville的湖是被工厂和冒烟的烟囱包围着的。
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