2007年12月英语六级短文改错16

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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 city is __1__

going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity __2__

which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of

Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of seventeenth- __3__

century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. __4__

Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico

City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5__

dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be __6__

numbered in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7__