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Centers of the Great European Cities The centers of the great cities of Europe are meeting places by tradition. People gather there to drink coffee and chat late into the night. A mixture of locals and tourists make for an exciting, metropolitan atmosphere. Squares, plazas (广场) and arcades (拱廊) form the heart of Europe’s cities. Venice in Italy has the Plazza San Marco a beautiful square surrounded by shops, churches, restaurants and cafés. In Barcelona, Spain, La Bosqueria is a lively market with hundreds of stalls selling all kinds of goods. London’s Covent Garden is filled with fruit and vegetable stalls by day and musicians, acrobats (杂技演员) and artists by night. The government buildings at the center of many cities often are architecturally impressive. In London, they serve as a beautiful backdrop (北) to the coffee tables that line the streets and the banks of the Thames. These vibrant (有活力的) hearts are the product of centuries of evolution, social historia
A. It is crowded with people.
B. It is located in London.
C. It is filled with stalls.
D. It is surrounded by shops, churches, restaurants and cafes.

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Centers of the Great European Cities The centers of the great cities of Europe are meeting places by tradition. People gather there to drink coffee and chat late into the night. A mixture of locals and tourists make for an exciting, metropolitan atmosphere. Squares, plazas (广场) and arcades (拱廊) form the heart of Europe’s cities. Venice in Italy has the Plazza San Marco a beautiful square surrounded by shops, churches, restaurants and cafés. In Barcelona, Spain, La Bosqueria is a lively market with hundreds of stalls selling all kinds of goods. London’s Covent Garden is filled with fruit and vegetable stalls by day and musicians, acrobats (杂技演员) and artists by night. The government buildings at the center of many cities often are architecturally impressive. In London, they serve as a beautiful backdrop (北) to the coffee tables that line the streets and the banks of the Thames. These vibrant (有活力的) hearts are the product of centuries of evolution, social historia
A. has many large squares
B. has many very magnificent sky-scrapers
C. draws tourists in large numbers every year
D. has a center where tourists meet their spouses

[单项选择]第1篇 Centers of the Great European Cities The centers of the great cities of Europe are meeting places by tradition. People gather there to drink coffee and chat late into the night. A mixture of locals and tourists make for an exciting, metropolitan atmosphere. Squares, plazas(广场)and arcades(拱廊) form the heart of Europe’s cities. Venice in Italy has the Plazza San Marco, a beautiful square surrounded by shops, churches, restaurants and’ cafes. In Barcelona, Spain, La Bosqueria is a lively market with hundreds of stalls selling all kinds of goods. London’s Covent Garden is filled with fruit and vegetable stalls by day and musicians, acrobats(杂技演员)and artists by night. The government buildings at the center of many cities often are architecturally impressive. In London, they serve as a beautiful backdrop (背景) to the coffee tables that line the streets and the banks of the Thames. These vibrant(有活力的) hearts are the product of centuries of evolution, social historia
A. has many large squares
B. has many very magnificent sky-scrapers
C. draws tourists in large numbers every year
D. has a center where tourists meet their spouses

[填空题]In almost all of the major Western European cities private car transport accounts for between 70 and ______ percent of passenger-kilometers.

[填空题]Most European cities today are a mixture of old and modern (build)______.

[填空题]·has few large cities despite its great size

[填空题]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 going to attract poor immigrants, who flood 62. ______
in, tilling with hopes of prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are 63. ______
backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge 64. ______
of seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. 65. ______
Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the 66. ______
enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of 67. ______
Mexico City today--the poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies two 68.