大学英语六级改错试题及答案（6）

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which

are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.

Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found

new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1. __________

immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2. __________

which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns

on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there wereS3. __________

on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-

teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4. __________

written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico

City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,S5. __________

are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—theS6. __________

poor can still be numbered in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-

ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7. __________

promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural povertyS8. __________

and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9. __________

country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late,S10. __________

sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.

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