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新题型 打印本页 一、新题型 1.Directions In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1-5, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The tragic impact of the modern city on the human being has killed his sense of aesthetics；the material benefits of an affluent society have diverted his attention from his city and its culture potentials to the products of solence and technology, washing machines，central heating，automatic cookers，television sets, computers and fitted carpets．He is，at the moment，drunk with democracy，well-to-do, a car driver, and has never had it so good． He is reluctant to walk. Statistics reveal that the distance he is prepared to walk from his parking Place to his shopping center is very short．(1)______________________. Congestion has become the predominant factor in his environment, and statistics suggest that two caps per household system may soon make matters worse． (2)____________．“Putting land to its highest and best use” becomes the principal economic standard in urban growth．This speculative approach and the pressure of increasing population leads to the “vertical” growth of cities with the result that people are forced to adjust themselves to congestion in order to maintain these relatively artificial land values. Paradoxically the remedy for removing congestion is to create more of it． Partial decentralization，or rather，pseudo-decentralization，in the form of large development units away from the traditional town centers，only shifts the disease round the anatomy of the town：if it is not combined with the remodeling of the town’s transportation system，it does not cure it．(3)__________________. It is within our power to build better cities and revive the civic pride of their citizens，but we shall have to stop operating on the fringe of the problem. We sha