Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
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 S1___
city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, S2___
filling with hopes of prosperity which are then often
disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of S3___
Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of
seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century S4___
Paris. This is new is the scale.
Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor S5___
of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found S6___
there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today -
the 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 promised land, S7___
that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings it flooding S8___
into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Garden of Eden, S9__
which, a few generations late, sends them flooding out again to S10___
the suburbs.
2002年6月大學英語六級短文改錯參考答案
S1. new a new
S2. filling filled
S3. though if
S4. This What
S5. was were
S6. dissimilar similar
S7. lies lie
S8. that which
S9. it them
S10. late later
