首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It speeded up physica
Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It speeded up physica
admin
2012-11-30
60
问题
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【C1】______ the inherent instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the buses,【C2】______ , commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more【C3】______ from city centers than they were in the pre-modern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay【C4】______ two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the【C5】______ ex tended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far removed from the old city center and still【C6】______ there for work, shopping, and【C7】______ The new accessibility of land around the periphery (外围) of almost every, major city【C8】______ an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now【C9】______ as urban sprawl (城市蔓延). Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new【C10】______ lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago,【C11】 ______ of them located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted outside the city limits【C12】______ within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take【C13】______ of the possibilities of commuting, real estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty years—lots that could have housed five to six million people.
Of course, many were never【C14】______ ; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. These【C15】______ pre sent a feature of residential expansion【C16】______ to the growth of mass transportation: urban sprawl was【C17】______ unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small investors 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【C18】______ transit lines and middle-class inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demand【C19】______ much as to respond to it. Chicago is a prime example of this【C20】______ . Real estate subdivision there proceeded much faster than population growth.
【C4】
选项
A、scarcely
B、almost
C、nearly
D、even
答案
A
解析
语义关系题。空格后面的two miles和后句的ten miles形成对比,突出two miles之少,故填scarcely“仅仅,几乎不”。其他三个干扰项表示的程度不及scarcely。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/slb7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Somepeoplethinkthatrhymeandmetre______thepoet’sfreeexpressionwhichseemstobeveryimportantinpoem.
ThetruthisthatradiohasnotbeenbytelevisionandInternet.Infact,radioisaspopularasithaseverbeen.
Allyoungmenarerequiredtodotwoyearsof______militaryservice.
Newspaperstendto______theirinfluenceonthewaypeoplevote.
Thedesignofthisarchitectureshowsagreatdealof________Wehaveneverseenabuildingofsuchatypebefore.
Amidweakjobandhousingmarkets,consumersaresavingmoreandspendinglessthantheyhaveindecades,andindustryProfessio
A、Studentsreceivecreditforworkexperience.B、TheProfessorvideotapesclasslecturesforreview.C、Classesareheldatvario
A、Theyareindesperateneedoffinancialassistance.B、Theyhopetodomiracleswithlimitedresources.C、Theywanttoborrowa
A、Itpublishesmagazines.B、Itisengagedinproductdesign.C、Itsponsorstradefairs.D、Itrunssalespromotioncampaigns.D由对
A、Awhale.B、Asnail.C、Asnake.D、Ahuman.C
随机试题
血证出血部位与脏腑的关系,下列哪项是错误的
关于胰岛素降低血糖的生理作用正确的是
患者,女性,25岁。失恋后服大量巴比妥钠后出现双侧瞳孔缩小,急需洗胃、导泻。选择洗胃液与导泻液分别为
(2009年单项选择第14题)甲公司与乙公司于2006年4月10日达成了买卖l0套电力设备的合同,约定5月甲公司发货。4月23日双方签字,4月25日甲方盖章,4月28日乙方盖章。甲公司与乙公司的买卖合同成立时间为()。
下列债券不可上市流通的是()。
补写出下列名篇名句中的空缺部分。叶子本是并肩密密地挨着,___________。(朱自清《荷塘月色》)
简要分析《骆驼祥子》中,造成祥子的悲剧原因。
“我国的工业过去集中在沿海。所谓沿海,是指辽宁、河北、北京、天津、河南东部、山东、安徽、江苏、上海、浙江、福建、广东、广西。我国全部轻工业和重工业,都有约70%在沿海,只有30%在内地。这是历史上形成的一种不合理的状况。沿海的工业基地必须充分利用,但是,为
[A]EachNewYear’sDaylotsofpeoplemakeplanstodomoreexerciseorgiveupsmoking.ButbyJanuary2ndmanyofthemhaven
有三个关系R、S和T如下:则由关系R和S得到关系T的操作是
最新回复
(
0
)