2011年考研英語備考：英語閱讀專項特訓(7)[1]

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The tragic impact of modern city on the human being has killed his sense of aesthetics. The material benefits of an affluent society have diverted his attention from his city and its cultural potential to the products of science and technology: washing machines, central beating, automatic cookers, television sets, computers and fitted carpets. He is, at the moment, drunk with democracy, well-to-do, and has never had it so good.

　　He is reluctant to walk. Statistical data reveal that the distance he is prepared to walk from his parking place to his shopping centre is very short. As there are no adequate offstreet parking facilities, the cities are littered with kerbparked cars, and parking meters rear themselves everywhere. Congestion has become the predominant factor in his environment, and statistics suggest that two cars per household system may soon make matters worse.

　　In the meantime, insult is added to injury by “land value”. The value of land results from its use

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