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74 74 教学材料 电随蛔聃 Unit 2 Arnwick was a city with 200,000 people. Readinq and vocabulary Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions. Use the words in the box to help you. coumryside field flat hospital job office rubbish village I Why do people move to cities? What arc the problems of big cities? 2 Read the passage and check your answers to Activity 1. G Could it be your town? Jo is fifteen and lives in Parkville. When Jos grandparents l,irs! came io Parkville, it was a quiet village. They had a small house, close to fields and hills. Parkville was near Arnwick. a city with 200,000 people. People from Parkville moved to Arnwick to find jobs, and they needed places to live. However, it was expensive to live in the cily centre, so the governmenl buill flats outside the centre. Soon, Parkville became pan of Arnwick. and Arnwick became a city with over a million people. Jo*s family lives in one of those flats It is very crowded, and rubbish is also a problem. The small local school in Parkville closed down five years ago. so Jo now has to go to a school in Arnwick with 2.000 pupils. It lakes an hour to get there by bus. There is a lot of traffic and pollution It is clear thai Arnwick needs more schools, buses and hospitals. 1( needs fnesh 1 clean water and better public services II ai needs more police to protect its people. Bu:| do all these things, it needs more money. However, can money help solve all h problems? Do we need more big cities h (his? In fact this is just a story. But it desert： what is happening all over the world Couk be your town some day? □ □□□□ □ □□□□ Check (V)the true sentences. I Parkville was a qukrt village. Amwick was a city with 20,000 people. Amwick nou has a population of more than one million. The local school in Parkville has 2.000 pupils. 5 Big cities need more money for public services. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box. flat local pollution rubbish service thousand Vany towns and cities have the same probl