Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.
Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It speeded up physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the 1 instability of life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for 2 expansion, the buses, railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys 3 settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centres than they were in the pre-modern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay 4 two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius 5 ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far 6 from the old city centre and still 7 there for work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery (外围) of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as sprawl (城市蔓延).
Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge 8 of subdivided, but vacant, land around many cities. These excesses present a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass transportation: sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small 9 who paid little care to coordinated land use or to future land users.
Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and middle-class 10 were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it.
A. attracted
B. civilian
C. commute
D. dividend
E. extended
F. inhabitants
G. inherent
H. investors
I. pulled
J. removed
K. residential
L. scarcely
M. surplus
N. transport
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