A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing 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 1.（） going to attract poor 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 on the edge of seventeenth-3.（）century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale.4.（）Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very 5.（）dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today — the poor can still be 6.（）numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies 7.（）two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants 8.（）from rural poverty and brings it fl
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing 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 1.（） going to attract poor 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 on the edge of seventeenth-3.（）century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale.4.（）Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very 5.（）dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today — the poor can still be 6.（）numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies 7.（）two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants 8.（）from rural poverty and brings it fl
| There are stock markets in large cities
in many countries. Stock markets in Pads, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and New York
are among the largest and most well-known. The stock market, also called stock
exchange, is a place where people can buy or sell shares of a factory or a
Company. And each share means certain ownership of a factory or a
company. Different people go to stock markets. Some are rich, who want to get more money than they have. Others are not rich, who buy stocks and try to become rich. Still others buy stocks as part of their plan to save money. Of course, investing money in the stock market is not the safest way to make money. No one can tell exactly whether the shares will be doing well. The factory or the company may do badly. Then the stocks will go down, and investors will lose money. The stock may go up or down for a number A. can buy the company or the factory B. can sell the company or the factory C. will become the owner of the company or the factory D. are one of the owners of the company or the factory [单项选择]Passage Six
|
