Read the passage through carefully before making you . choices . Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter . Please write down the corresponding letter for each . item in the blanks . You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once A) attracted E) extended 1) pulled M) surplus B) civilian F) inhabitants J) removed N) transport C) commute G) inherent K)residential O) vigorously D) dividend H) investors L) scarcely Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American citv in three fundamental wavs. It sneeded up phvsical exnansion it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the__26___’instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for__27_____expansion,the buses, railways, commuter trains,and electric trolleys__28___settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centres than they were in the pre-modern era.In1850,for example,the borders of Boston lay__29_____two miles from the old business district;by the turn of the century the radius___30__ten miles.Now those who could afford it could live far __31____from the old city centre and still__32___there for work,shopping,andentertainment.The new accessibility of land around the periphery (外围)of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl(城市蔓延).Of course, many were never occupied; there was always ahuge_33____of subdivided,but vacant, land around many cities. These excesses present 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 __34_____who paid little care 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__35____ were anticipated, did so to create denand as much as to respond to it.

Directions : In this section there is a passage with ten blanks You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word Lank before the passage . Read the passage through carefully before making you . choices . Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter . Please write down the corresponding letter for each . item in the blanks . You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once 

A) attracted E) extended 1) pulled M) surplus 

B) civilian F) inhabitants J) removed N) transport 

C) commute G) inherent K)residential O) vigorously 

D) dividend H) investors L) scarcely 

Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American citv in three fundamental wavs. It sneeded up phvsical exnansion it sorted out people and  land  uses, and it accelerated the__26___’instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for__27_____

expansion,the buses, railways, commuter trains,and electric trolleys__28___settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centres than they were in the pre-modern era.In1850,for example,the borders of Boston lay__29_____two miles from the old business district;by the turn of the century the radius___30__ten miles.Now those who could afford it could live far __31____from the old  city  centre and still__32___there for work,shopping,andentertainment.The new accessibility of land around the periphery (外围)of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl(城市蔓延).

Of course, many were never occupied; there was always ahuge_33____of subdivided,but vacant, land around many cities. These excesses present 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 __34_____who paid little care 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__35____ were anticipated, did so to create denand as much as to respond to it.