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Urbanization and Its Influence Over half the world’s people now live in cities．The latest“Global Report on Human Settlements”say

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问题 Urbanization and Its Influence
Over half the world’s people now live in cities．The latest“Global Report on Human Settlements”says a significant change took place last year．The report_________(1)this week from U．N．Habitat，a United Nations agency．
A century ago，_________(2)than five percent of all people lived in cities．_________(3)the middle of this century it could be seventy percent，or_________(4)six and a half billion people．
  Already three—fourths of people in_________(5)countries live in cities．Now most urban population_________(6)is in the developing world.
  Urbanization can lead to social and economic progress，but also put_________(7)on cities to provide housing and_________(8)．The new report says almost two hundred thousand people move________ (9)cities and towns each day．It says worsening inequalities，_________(1 0)by social divisions and differences in_________(11)，could result in violence and crime unless cities plan better．
Another issue is urban sprawl(无序扩展的城区)．This is where cities_________(12)quickly intorural areas，sometimes_________(13)a much faster rate than urban population growth．
  Sprawl is common in the United States．Americans move a lot．In a recent study，Art Hall atthe University of Kansas found that people are moving away from the_________(14)cities to smallerones．He sees a_________(15)toward“de—urbanization”across the nation．
(14)
选项 A、essential
B、primitive
C、prior
D、major
答案D
解析 在逆城市化的进程中，人们从大城市搬往小城市，四个单词中只有major表示“重要的、大的”。essential：基本的、本质的。primitive：原始的、粗糙的。prior和to搭配，表示“在……之前”。
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