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City Challenges Worldwide, cities gain a million people a week. This kind of growth brings problems, and today many of the world’s largest cities face similar challenges: high housing costs, pollution, and crime(to name a few). What are some urban planners doing to fix these problems and improve people’s lives?
Hyderabad, India (population: more than five million) To improve residents’ lives, Hyderabad is planting trees and parks. The city is even creating “greener” buildings that use less water and less electricity for power. Adding green to a city has a number of advantages. For example, trees removes pollution from the air and make it cleaner. In Hyderabad,streets were gray and ugly a few years ago. Today, they are filled with trees and flowers, making the city cleaner and more colorful. Green areas also give people places to relax or exercise and walk. A study in the U.S. Showed something else interesting: the greener a neighborhood is, the less crime there is against people and property-especially buildings and cars.
Sao Paulo, Brazil(population:more than eighteen million) Many people work in the center of Sao Paulo, but they don’t live there. They’ve spread out to neighborhoods ouside the city, where housing is cheaper. Every day, these people travel into the city, and traffic is very heavy. Urban planners are using different strategies to address this issue. First, they are building better subways. Another goal is to make it cheaper for people to live in the downtown area. Doing this will shorten the distance people travel for work and reduce traffic and pollution in the city.
Reading Comprehension Choose the best answer for each question. 1. What is the main purpose of this passage? A. To show how two cities are improving people’s lives B. To describe the benefits of smaller cities C. To explain why more people are moving into cities D. To describe the life of an urban planner
2. Which reason for making a city greener is NOT stated in the passage? A. It makes a city cleaner. B. It helps people work better. C. It lowers crime rates. D. It makes it easier to exercise.
3. In line 8, what does the word greener mean? A. More brightly colored B. Better for the environment C. Taller D. More full of trees
4. According to the passage, what problem does Sao Paulo have? A. A lot of people don’t have jobs. B. Too many people live in the city center. C. A lot of people are moving out of the city. D. Too many people drive into the city every day.
5. In line 20, what does there refer to? A. Brazil B. In a city C. Outside Sao Paulo D. Central Sao Paulo
Background information In 1950, only one city in the world had more than ten million people-New York. By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. Many residents of large urban areas will face problems with housing, pollution (for example, of the air and water),and crime.
Vocabulary: fix 解決 fix the problem 解決問題 resident 居民 remove from 去除 property 貧窮 Sao Paulo 圣保羅
Word Partnership heavy traffic 交通擁擠 light traffic 通暢的交通 oncoming traffic 迎面而來的車輛 stuck in traffic 堵在路上
Comprehension key: 1 a 第一段最后一句點明文章主旨。 2 b 第二段，make a city cleaner, lower crime, easier to exercise都提到了。 3 b 4 c第三段they’ve spread out to neighborhoods outside the city, where house is cheaper可知。 5 d 第三段第一句的in the center of Sao Paulo可知。 |
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