英语四级考试辅导：改错精练（7）

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　　When some nineteenth century New Yorkers said "Harlem",
　they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street.
2 a* j& @. \" G* {$ u* b　Toward the end of the century, however, a group
　of citizens in upper Manhattan-want perhaps, to shape a closer 1._________
　and more precise sense of community—designated a section that
! E% \7 s4 l8 g) Y0 q% s8 d3 s　they wished to have known as Harlem. The chosen area was the
　Harlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the 2.________
　new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and
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　As the community became predominantly Black, the very
! g- O- C0 @% J/ G3 M, ~% S# j7 ~　word "Harlem" seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.________
　easy to forget that "Harlem" was originally the Dutch name
5 [& ], l: k, ]. o9 j+ Q　"Harlem"; the community it described had been founded by 4.________
　people from Holland；and that for most of its three centuries—it
　was first settled in the sixteen hundreds—it had been preoccupied 5.________
8 R' V. U# c1 P7 }  @1 y　by White New Yorkers. "Harlem" became synonymous to 6.________
　Black life and Black style in Manhattan. Blacks living there
5 J# H  b5 V# i( ]* |& W$ a　used the word as though they had coined it on themselves—not 7.________
　only to designate their area of residence but to express their
7 A# E+ d! \! p" [　sense of the various qualities of its life and atmosphere. As the
　years passed, "Harlem" asserted an even larger meaning. In 8.________
) z7 P1 n3 |' @& z' l7 l  V　the words of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., the pastor of the
; f9 C9 J/ o, H) W3 P) Z$ {　Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem "became the symbol of liberty
　and the Promised Land to Negroes everywhere".
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