Book review: triumph of the city

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题目与答案

1. Cities

   Problems with early cities

   • dirt

   • 1_____

   答案：disease

   原文定位：The early industrial cities were dirty, since they lacked efficient waste disposal systems, and diseases spread rapidly among the population

2. 10 The writer Henry David Thoreau discussed the ideas of the Romantic poets in his work.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：Not long after the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, the Romantic poets turned away from the smoke and factories of their cities to celebrate the air and light of untouched nature. In 19th-century America, the writer Henry David Thoreau retreated to the wilderness of Walden Pond to live the solitary, simple life

3. 11 Emperor Napoleon III was influenced by the complaints of poor people living in Paris.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：in the second half of the 19th century, the French emperor Napoleon III gave Baron Haussmann unrestricted power to turn the slum infested city of Paris into one of the wonders and delights of the modern world

4. 12 Strict planning regulations may be beneficial for a city’s development.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：This does not excuse them but they allow property prices to soar with unreasonable planning regulations. Instead, cities should build more houses and thereby hold property prices in check

5. 13 Glaeser argues that the location of commercial development at La Défense was a bad idea.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Glaeser defends their preservation but argues that in the 1950s the French made a mistake in developing a huge high-rise, commercial area of La Défense on the outskirts of the city

6. 2 but there were commercial and _____ reasons for improving them

   答案：political

   原文定位：But more importantly they were profitable, and there were enormous commercial incentives to make them work, as well as political ones

7. Urban poverty is not a major problem because poor people

   • 3 generally get _____

   答案：richer

   原文定位：The poor flock to cities in the hope of becoming richer (which, by and large, they did)

8. • 4 help to develop the _____

   答案：economy

   原文定位：They also invigorate the economy of the city

9. Cities do have some problems—e.g.

   • 5 the centre of Paris is becoming a _____

   • Mumbai is negatively affected by height restrictions of new buildings

   答案：museum

   原文定位：The heart of Paris, as many Parisians say, is turning into a museum because of attempts to preserve Baron Haussmann’s 19th century boulevards

10. In the U.S., the middle classes have moved to the suburbs due to

    • cheap petrol

    • 6 high _____ prices in inner cities

    答案：property

    原文定位：By under taxing petrol and imposing tight planning restrictions on inner cities, while forcing up the cost of property, it made flight to the suburbs more or less inevitable for the middle classes

11. Disadvantages of suburbs

    • 7 less personal _____

    答案：contact

    原文定位：Suburbanites mingle less, and lose the face-to-face contact that makes being in cities so much more economically powerful

12. • 8 increased _____ of resources such as heating—which damages the environment

    答案：consumption

    原文定位：Every aspect of life involves more consumption

13. 9 Glaeser believes that congestion and poverty in some modern cities indicate serious problems.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：FALSE

    原文定位：The crowds and pollution and noise that choke modern cities may horrify us. They shouldn’t, says Glaeser: they are signs of growth, energy, and aspiration