2013年12月英语六级改错训练（3）
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which arenothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.
Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found
new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor 1.____
immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity 2.____
which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns
on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were 3.____
on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early
nineteenth century Paris. This is new is in the scale. Descriptions 4.____
written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico
City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, 5.____
are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the 6.____
poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic
prosperity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a 7.____
promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty 8.____
and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the 9.____
country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, 10.____
sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.
【参考答案】
1. 把 And 改为 But
2. 把 filling 改为 filled
3. 把 there 改为 they
4. 把 This 改为 What
5. 把 was 改为 are
6. 把 dissimilar 改为 similar
7. 把 lies 改为 in
8. 把 that 改为 which
9. 把 it 改为 them
10. 把 late 改为 later
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