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",
. ]1 w1 X0 F" l! n) a5 f　they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street.
　Toward the end of the century, however, a group
+ M2 f5 S/ G8 o% h5 I. n　of citizens in upper Manhattan-want perhaps, to shape a closer 1._________
6 q- i' I' g( v9 ?1 U# J" \　and more precise sense of community—designated a section that
# o* s2 p2 t- k; P( y　they wished to have known as Harlem. The chosen area was the
# m; g3 ~' o1 x( a4 H2 u　Harlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the 2.________
　new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and
　lower blocks of the West Side.
! o. b4 S7 }: s$ H% N; h' k- m　As the community became predominantly Black, the very
　word "Harlem" seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.________
　easy to forget that "Harlem" was originally the Dutch name
" w4 @1 q6 _" [. k# R　"Harlem"; the community it described had been founded by 4.________
' z" J$ _9 z; c: i+ ~" o　people from Holland；and that for most of its three centuries—it
　was first settled in the sixteen hundreds—it had been preoccupied 5.________
　by White New Yorkers. "Harlem" became synonymous to 6.________
　Black life and Black style in Manhattan. Blacks living there
& y/ b2 D0 o; [, [. F) x　used the word as though they had coined it on themselves—not 7.________
9 q# T  w: Q+ O( y　only to designate their area of residence but to express their
　sense of the various qualities of its life and atmosphere. As the
5 `& n/ k) C, A1 P! q6 A  X　years passed, "Harlem" asserted an even larger meaning. In 8.________
　the words of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., the pastor of the
　Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem "became the symbol of liberty
　and the Promised Land to Negroes everywhere".