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  3. A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some c

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some c

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问题     A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are
nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some
cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new one. (1)______
And any large or rich city is going to attract poor immigrants,
who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity which are then often (2)______
disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay
or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of seventeenth- (3)______
century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is (4)______
the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of
the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts were to be (5)______
found there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City to- (6)______
day — the poor can still be numbered in millions.
    The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,
but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised (7)______
land, what attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings (8)______
it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Gar- (9)______
den of Eden, which, a few generations latter, sends them flooding (10)_____
out again to the suburbs.
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答案new one→a new one
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