In no city of China _____ little about the ec...

In no city of China ______ little about the economic development.

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In no city of China _____ little about the economic development．

A．the government cares　　　　 　　　　 B．does the government care

C．doesn’t the government care　　 D．the government doesn’t care

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In no city of China _____ little about the economic development．

A．the government cares                    B．does the government care

C．doesn’t the government care             D．the government doesn’t care

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In no city of China________little about the economic development.

A．the government cares                                   B．does the government care

C．doesn’t the government care                      D．the government doesn’t care

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In no place of China ________little about the economic development nowadays.

A．the local government cares           B．does the local government care

C．doesn’t the local government care    D．cares the local government

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Of the most popular films in China this year, ________ was produced in this city

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Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It catalyzed physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the omnibuses, horse railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more distant form city centers than they were in the premodern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay scarcely two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius extended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far removed from the old city center and still commute there for work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago, most of them located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted outside the city limits but within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take advantage 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 occupied; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. These excesses underscore 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 investors who paid little heed 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 inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it. Chicago is a prime example of this process. Real estate subdivision there proceeded much faster than population growth.

1.With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?

[A] Types of mass transportation.

[B] Instability of urban life.

[C] How supply and demand determine land use.

[D] The effect of mass transportation on urban expansion.

2.Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago?

[A] To demonstrate positive and negative effects of growth.

[B] To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation.

[C] To show mass transportation changed many cities.

[D] To contrast their rate of growth.

3.According to the passage, what was one disadvantage of residential expansion?

[A] It was expensive.

[B] It happened too slowly.

[C] It was unplanned.

[D] It created a demand for public transportation.

4.The author mentions Chicago in the second paragraph as an example of a city,

[A] that is large.

[B] that is used as a model for land development.

[C] where the development of land exceeded population growth.

[D] with an excellent mass transportation system.

Vocabulary

1.revise                  改变

2.fabric                  结构

3.catalyze                  催化，加速

4.sort out                  把……分门别类，拣选

5.omnibus                  公共汽车/马车

6.trolley                  （美）有轨电车，（英）无轨电车

7.periphery            周围，边缘

8.sprawl                  建筑物无计划延伸，蔓延，四面八方散开

9.lot                  小片土地

10.underscore            强调，在下面划横线

11.transit lines            运输线路

12.subdivision            （出售的）小块土地，再划分小区

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The project, intended to ___ the economic development of the west of China, has brought in benefits to the local people.

A. reflect      B. promote    C. attract   D. construct

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_____ the different cultures, values and levels of economic development in China and the West, both sides should respect the diversity of their development paths.

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New York City is a world capital in every sense of the word—it's a cultural and economic powerhouse, and arguably the most influential city on the planet. But it wasn't always this way, as the following cities once dominated the world around them.

Djenne­Djenno

In the flood lands of the Niger delta people have been building houses and other structures with clay for centuries. The town of Djenne­Djenno is made entirely out of clay. It was inhabited as far back as 250 BC, and became an important link in the trans­Saharan gold trade(跨撒哈拉黄金交易). Constructed on hills called “toguere”， the city managed to escape the marshy(沼泽的) landscape and annual floods produced by the rainy season. Djenne­Djenno is believed to be one of the earliest settlements in the sub­Saharan region, and is considered by some to be “the typical African City”.

Archeological evidence shows us a continuous human presence in the area up until the 14th century AD, when people moved to the nearby town of Djenne, founded in the 11th century. Further evidence points out that even before the city's construction, the Bozo people were growing wild rice in the region. In the 13th century AD, with King Koumboro's conversion to Islam, its palace transformed into a mosque.

Carthage

Legend has it that Carthage was founded by Queen Dido of the Phoenicians. She fled the city of Tyre located in present­day Lebanon in order to escape the hatred of her brother Pygmalion, who was her rival to the throne. Along with a group of settlers, she traveled a great distance by sea and landed in North Africa, where she met King Iarbas. He offered to give them land in order to build a settlement, but no bigger than the surface covered by the hide(牛皮) of an ox. They cleverly cut the hide into thin strips and were able to enclose a fairly large area of land. On this land, the mighty city of Carthage was built.

These stories are most likely just that, but the fact that the Phoenicians built the city around 760 BC is true. Located in such a good position—in the middle of the Mediterranean, close to Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, and a pretty good distance from Egypt—helped make Carthage a leading trade center and military power. The population soon reached half a million citizens and, in order to house them all, buildings were all built five or six stories tall. Carthage was the first city in ancient times to have a centralized sewage system, linking all buildings within the city walls. The most notable of structures among the ruins was the “Thophet”， which is believed to be an altar(圣坛) for child sacrifice.

Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the Aztec Empire. It was built on an island surrounded by Lake Texcoco deep inside the jungles of Central America. By the time the Spanish conquerors were aware of its existence, the population was around 200，000. This was a city very different from what the Europeans were used to. Founded in 1325 AD, the Aztec capital was joined to the mainland by three causeways(堤道). It was laid out in straight street grids and had enormous pyramids at its center, which were surrounded by the skulls of the dead and ceremonial sculptures.

1.What do we know about the ancient cities?

A. Tenochtitlan was the first city to link all buildings within the city walls using a centralized sewage system.

B. Carthage was considered to have played an important role in the trans­Saharan gold trade.

C. There was no doubt that Carthage was founded by Queen Dido of the Phoenicians.

D. According to some people, the city Djenne­Djenno is “a typical African city”.

2.The passage is most probably taken from ________.

A. a news report B. a science fiction C. a history book D. a research paper

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