2013年6月大学英语六级改错真题模拟(12)
2013年6月大学英语六级改错真题模拟(12)
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which |
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are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. |
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Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found |
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new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor |
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immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity |
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which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns |
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on the edge of |
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on the edge of seventeenth-century |
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teenth-century |
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written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of |
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City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, |
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are very dissimilar to descriptions of |
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poor can still be numbered in millions. |
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The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper- |
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ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a |
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promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty |
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and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the |
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country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, |
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sends them flooding out again to the suburbs. |
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S1. new à a new S2. filling à filled
S3. though à if S4. This à What
S5. was à were S6. dissimilar à similar
S7. lies à lie S8. that à which
S9. it à them S10. late à later