A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing
# N. O5 W5 ` \* k \ new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their
0 ~$ b1 A3 j% e- u$ @: J& W original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is __1__' e8 X- J! x0 v2 N+ i6 q* X, y
going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2__
: K" d) B" [7 \! W prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the
2 A) Y: p! v2 w8 y" P edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3__
$ i) h# b- P3 M+ _+ n7 V8 \" V seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4__
' A$ U: f1 i1 N3 |) m the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of
, S1 k) a2 p ?9 T5 E) l Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5__
7 M- W b/ Q3 ?5 l g ? dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6__( M# C. l6 T4 o# \9 V' z, T
in millions.
+ @: {( V# C% t: A% @; \ The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7__
- ^% F% A3 R! F8 }/ k6 q two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8__
8 D* @$ @! ~3 a8 ^0 c$ ?$ N from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9__
; |7 `) f0 W" A1 x8 @1 y/ d country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10__# @; d# Q1 @7 d0 E& b
-ing out again to the suburbs.! q; n; C4 [2 ]4 K }' k6 T
参考答案及解析:
# T; R2 i3 B+ {3 F 1. 在new one前加a. [1 |( C; j- F7 e( K9 S$ l
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。# C0 X2 K' }2 F* m" I2 B- L
2. 将filling改为filled
( U- Y6 v) h- H- C6 P 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。
0 l* ` y/ ?5 C: d) Q; } 3. 去掉though/ ]$ X0 O9 ~& F' c* g Z
4. 将this改为what: M% w9 g$ R# _$ |9 E! 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:0 W+ c1 A+ b: D! v
What I like in a good author is not what he says,but what he whispers。
7 |! i" D: P% c. B2 y3 n: R- L4 [1 D 5. 将was改为were- m0 ~; H7 W- u8 y7 L* N; I
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。. k- a |% ^7 E* s
6. 将dissimilar 改为 similar% @' f) e# F- y, M' ]
这里要表示的是“共同,相似”之处。; o, G: Z3 T0 I; ^2 f
7.将lies 改为lie$ @( B+ A# L# t7 y0 A# ?# P* M1 K
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 N$ z2 q! Q- `9 [; v6 H4 H 8. 将that改为which7 `$ e$ D/ X5 t
这里是一个非限制性定语从句,因此不可用that,而要用which。
& f4 Y' q. E5 f" m6 C; s. M; \ 9. 将it改为them% t' L0 _1 Q" l1 S
复数名词immigrants的代词,所以要用复数形式。& ]% i! A; K, Y5 G; h7 f/ F
10. 将late改为later |