A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing5 E! W4 q& M4 O: X+ K
new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their
( V" ?$ v, |) _$ r) t9 v original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is __1__
6 n2 [; }1 x9 a+ [; @0 c going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2__! v P3 W! o0 ?- c6 t
prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the' r6 k4 l. @- H9 y
edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3__
# v/ B) p; q' P$ f5 W, ]2 V seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4__1 N" }4 N" H% [* U+ H2 W' ~$ e# I
the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of
# X7 L$ E4 A- \7 r Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5__
2 s6 {7 o+ z( { dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6__
4 J; |1 Z& Y9 q$ e in millions.
, p; b. x4 _1 i) m; R1 w# c' A The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7__$ J/ z7 [: E) V" g7 C! x* u
two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8__
: O2 t8 W- ^9 T from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9__5 V( d; u( w; u" @, ^
country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10__! v0 a5 n6 i- ]3 b& L+ l* _
-ing out again to the suburbs.
* F; ~5 o0 f5 v5 X 参考答案及解析:
: }0 V) `8 g( x5 f$ }) W& q$ r- w" e 1. 在new one前加a
( J6 D' t- z5 ^ 这里one指代上下文中的可数名词purpose,因此该词前要有限定词。. T. U* {* A, m, T
2. 将filling改为filled. e8 U- T8 g; N# t$ X$ g
在这里,非谓语动词fill与句子的who(poor immigrants)之间是逻辑动宾关系,因此要使用过去分词来表示被动意义。" F& @" _# f& w @* `. z. c
3. 去掉though
7 g- w! a9 E$ _: |0 u& B) }* m 4. 将this改为what7 ~* \/ I- \- Y3 m2 g) n+ N7 m; r3 B0 _
根据句子结构,我们可以看出这里需要一个关系代词,它既能引导主语从句,同时也可以在从句中作主语,这个关系代词就是what。如:0 v' C- h) @; H ~; j2 [4 Q, c8 E
What I like in a good author is not what he says,but what he whispers。. S. H, }, a( o& L
5. 将was改为were
0 g2 k% {) H& M. h6 V that引导定语从句,其先行词是descriptions…and the enormous contrasts,因此谓语动词be要用复数。$ Y: T! i5 k* n: o+ \
6. 将dissimilar 改为 similar
, L0 h) t( f+ g6 t' X, E 这里要表示的是“共同,相似”之处。
1 {3 o: U O4 R- ^$ l! f 7.将lies 改为lie
7 {1 W* E2 e t6 }; E- O, I behind it lie two myths 是个倒装句,主语为two myths,可见谓语动词要使用复数。6 R. X7 \+ b9 {, @+ o4 q5 |8 g; u
8. 将that改为which% Z% W4 Y% K3 X
这里是一个非限制性定语从句,因此不可用that,而要用which。
# C6 I9 u' e7 l6 a( |4 Y3 W 9. 将it改为them6 ]; A; S* O6 k! o1 r8 N) ^- W% r
复数名词immigrants的代词,所以要用复数形式。
8 _( Q8 X; w9 X- o+ | 10. 将late改为later |