A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing; \; G! `7 u' L' U$ m( b
new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their
|4 c1 ^9 D8 z+ C9 f D: w original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is __1__
$ }6 c* H# O- n' e3 V going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2__4 o' `9 p% M8 C. N
prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the/ Q- V1 P5 k2 s9 O- [1 _
edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3__
3 Q3 f2 F8 w; q, ~/ [2 d, \! V( Q seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4__
6 u( g! m- Y' G3 O7 \8 C6 R the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of
2 @9 h' M0 p+ Q& F8 P" H Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5__
6 r5 E9 J P% I dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6__1 Y, D0 w" {) ^& X8 e; ^6 k, K4 @
in millions.
) p& B# |4 r* J# H The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7__' ?* `& y$ P3 r. @3 h8 ]
two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8__
, I% i4 X, j) \/ ^ A from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9__
$ {3 R3 W( T7 m$ s/ i# s country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10__7 q3 \4 n" m- {/ @- Z% z
-ing out again to the suburbs.
) X4 ^8 w/ |; S: j% V7 X3 F 参考答案及解析:- l- M: O; b9 ?& d. A8 \
1. 在new one前加a
4 p9 v! z+ G M6 z* U- [ 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。
; Z, y6 y) J9 [ 2. 将filling改为filled
8 ~4 F8 `4 m: H' G* ?# s 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。& [4 l' @* ^* O; w/ h3 x
3. 去掉though
* A. V7 p- V R* V5 M 4. 将this改为what8 y! @8 e6 H1 x% M& N j
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:
' L4 a5 l9 L# Y9 l$ k/ B6 X) f, O2 h2 | What I like in a good author is not what he says,but what he whispers。( {- r# K; m S0 L) s8 w% z" ?
5. 将was改为were
# \2 J, I7 A3 V# A/ u/ z 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。
$ u. j, x3 R0 |. R- g! Y0 B 6. 将dissimilar 改为 similar
! Z( ~3 U% k( z" | 这里要表示的是“共同,相似”之处。8 n$ ^1 x$ w3 l+ [
7.将lies 改为lie
8 x$ j' \# v- q8 W c$ j 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。
- j- \1 Y: ~! F9 _ 8. 将that改为which/ X' ^$ _3 J: H& w. {
这里是一个非限制性定语从句,因此不可用that,而要用which。
, b, c. W- I( I9 t 9. 将it改为them3 U6 `5 i$ X; i7 d% M3 I
复数名词immigrants的代词,所以要用复数形式。; R6 c8 {1 F' C/ ]
10. 将late改为later |