A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing
- g- l! `( y; t6 ] new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their
( B l. I' d8 Z0 ~: ]3 f original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is __1__
4 b- k* C3 P x' A going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2__7 u( w2 V4 @# q6 g9 }# u% F4 o
prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the; W- H0 v+ @4 n4 W
edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3__
; H" d- V5 m# v8 ] seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4__% S P; r" ` @$ S: Y
the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of
6 L+ d+ `8 c/ k% J4 N7 \/ r Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5__
7 q4 {3 e. p- G8 g( C( C; i) ]' }* G dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6__
! \8 P+ m% d! b1 s9 e3 ^# | in millions.3 k; I: q- l+ J: I5 l4 }
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7__3 d5 d5 W c+ M5 q4 u
two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8__. k9 Z5 X: O: g+ i/ y; b
from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9__: e0 k- R. N' o' L% N* j
country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10__% p; q3 n5 V9 e! M+ P- R: M
-ing out again to the suburbs.
! U. x3 v( Q- e! \! k6 V; n 参考答案及解析:* L6 E% C! O- _$ [( O) ~( q
1. 在new one前加a8 i) w. M! ?/ s B% y
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。7 D/ P8 q) P7 Y% b. z
2. 将filling改为filled* W' k: @- ]2 P: _6 F
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。
* _5 t' b8 A& X3 v! X& N1 M 3. 去掉though# T! y K6 I" _' Y
4. 将this改为what
. q8 o5 k6 w$ J: u$ p 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:
" @6 _" L9 _" B9 W. q1 _ What I like in a good author is not what he says,but what he whispers。
% G- a# j9 O! M/ ]5 o 5. 将was改为were+ K* X& r; a- h3 h
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。+ |& @2 M" A4 ^8 B* t4 p
6. 将dissimilar 改为 similar/ B6 [5 H2 E0 g- }# R, V
这里要表示的是“共同,相似”之处。
D5 @+ X& B( i/ q V- Q- |. t 7.将lies 改为lie. a8 x$ H) U+ i! ^/ d
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。& d B- ~& B5 ]9 O; U5 ?5 g5 ?
8. 将that改为which
1 m8 k) \2 n5 H" |7 G 这里是一个非限制性定语从句,因此不可用that,而要用which。5 A/ g) v8 |$ a1 p; c% L. ]
9. 将it改为them
8 J) B! h3 [, [3 r 复数名词immigrants的代词,所以要用复数形式。
7 a |0 `# h" F6 F- \* ? 10. 将late改为later |