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2017年6月英语四级阅读理解100篇精析（16）
英语四级阅读理解分值占整个考试的35%，比重很大。英语四级备考中后期建议考生们每天进行英语四级阅读模拟练习，严格把控做题时间，下面是新东方网英语四级频道为大家整理的2017年6月英语四级阅读理解100篇精析。
Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American
city in three fundamental ways. It catalyzed physical expansion, itsorted out
people and land uses, and it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life.
By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the
omnibuses, horse railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled
regions outward two to four times more distant form city centers than they were
in the premodern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay scarcely
two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius
extended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far removed from
the old city center and still commute there for work, shopping, and
entertainment. The new accessibility of land around theperiphery of almost every
major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we
now know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new
residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago, most of them
located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted
outside the city limits but within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take
advantage of the possibilities of commuting, real estate developers added
800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty years –
lots that could have housed five to six million people.
Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge surplus of
subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. These excesses
underscore a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass
transportation: urban sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by
thousands of small investors who paid little heed to coordinated land use or to
future land users. Those who purchased and prepared land for residential
purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and
middle-class inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to
respond to it. Chicago is a prime example of this process. Real estate
subdivision there proceeded much faster than population growth.
1. With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly
concerned?
[A] Types of mass transportation.
[B] Instability of urban life.
[C] How supply and demand determine land use.
[D] The effect of mass transportation on urban expansion.
2. Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago?
[A] To demonstrate positive and negative effects of growth.
[B] To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation.
[C] To show mass transportation changed many cities.
[D] To contrast their rate of growth.
3. According to the passage, what was one disadvantage of residential
expansion?
[A] It was expensive.
[B] It happened too slowly.
[C] It was unplanned.
[D] It created a demand for public transportation.
4. The author mentions Chicago in the second paragraph as an example of a
city,
[A] that is large.
[B] that is used as a model for land development.
[C] where the development of land exceeded population growth.
[D] with an excellent mass transportation system.
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发表于 2017-5-4 18:32:11