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TOEFL全真试题（2-2）(2) |
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11. According to the passage, why does water travel through plants in unbroken columns?
(A) Root pressure moves the water very rapidly.
(B) The attraction between water molecules is strong.
(C) The living cell of plants push the water molecules together.
(D) Atmospheric pressure supports the columns.
12. Why does the author mention steel wire in line 24?
(A) To illustrate another means of pulling water
(B) To demonstrate why wood is a good building material
(C) To indicate the size of a column of winter
(D) To emphasize the strength of cohesive forces in water
13. Where in the passage does the author give an example of a plant with low root pressure?
(A.) Lines 3-5
(B) Lines 6-8
(C) Lines 11-12
(D) Lines 13-14
Questions 14-22
Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city
in three fundamental ways. It catalyzed physical expansion, it sorted out people and land
uses, and it accelerated the inherent instability of urbon life. By opening vast areas of
unoccupied land for residential expansion, the omnibuses, horse railways, commuter
trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more
distant from city centers than they were in the premodern era. In 1850, for example, the
borders of Boston lay scarcely two miles from the old business district by the turn of
the century the radius extended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far
removed from the old city center and still commute there for work, shopping, and
entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every
major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fulled what we now
know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new
residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago, most of them. located in
outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted outside the city
limits but within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take advantage of the possibilities
of commuting, real estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the
Chicago region in just thirty years-lots that could have housed five to six million
people.
Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge surplus of
subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. There excesses
underscore a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass
transportation urban sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by
thousands of small investors who paid little heed to coordinated land use or to future
land users. Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes,
particularly and near or outside city borders where transit lines and middle-class
inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it.
Chicago is a prime example of this process. Real estate subdivision there proceeded
much faster than population growth.
14. With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?
(A) Types of mass transportation
(B) Instability of urban life
(C) How supply and demand determine land use
(D) The effects of mass trans- city portation on urban expansion
15. The author mentions all of the following as effects of mass transportation on cities EXCEPT
(A) growth in city area
(B) separation of commercial and residential districts
(C) changes in life in the inner city
(D) increasing standards of living.
16. The word "vast" in line 4 is closest in meaning to
(A) large
(B) basic
(C) new
(D) urban
17. The word "sparked" in line 12 is closest in meaning to
(A) brought about
(B) surrounded
(C) sent out
(D) followed
18. Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago?
(A)To demonstrate positive and negative effects of growth
(B) To show that mass transit changed many cities
(C) To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation
(D) To contrast their rates of growth
19. The word "potential" in line 18 is closest in meaning to
(A) certain
(B) popular
(C) improved
(D) possible
20.The word "many" in line 21 refers to
(A) people
(B) lots-
(C) years
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