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新托福专业备考社区 2001年1月第三篇 Questions 18-28 Cities develop as a result of functions that they can perform. Some functions result Comment 1: 有些城 directly from the ingenuity of the citizenry, but most functions result from the needs of 市职能直接来源于市 民们的创造，但大多 the local area and of the surrounding hinterland (the region that supplies goods to the 数的城市职能来源于 city and to which the city furnishes services and other goods). Geographers often make 该地区内部和内地贸 5) a distinction between the situation and the site of a city. Situation refers to the general 易区的需求（此处所 position in relation to the surrounding region, whereas site involves physical 说内地贸易区是指给 城市供应日杂商品的 characteristics of the specific location. Situation is normally much more important to 周边腹地还有城市为 the continuing prosperity of a city. if a city is well situated in regard to its hinterland, its 其提供服务以及除了 development is much more likely to continue. Chicago, for example, possesses an almost 日杂之外的其他商品 10) unparalleled situation: it is located at the southern end of a huge lake that forces east-west 的内地贸易区）。 transportation lines to be compressed into its vicinity, and at a meeting of significant land and water transport routes. It also overlooks what is one of the world’s finest large farming regions. These factors ensured that Chicago would become a great city regardless of the disadvantageous characteristics of the available s