大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷798
词汇理解
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【C1】________the inherent instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the buses, railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more【C2】________ from city centers than they were in the pre-modern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay 【C3】________two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the【C4】________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【C5】________. The new accessibility of land around the periphery (外国) of almost every major city【C6】________an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl
Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but【C7】________, land around many cities. These【C8】________present a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass transportation: urban sprawl was【C9】________unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small investors 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 inhabitants were【C10】________, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it.
A) entertainment E) excesses I) vacant M) distant
B) comparatively F) accelerated J) gauge N) sparked
C) radius G) cardinal K) anticipated O) essentially
D) extinguished H) scarcely L) allowances
1.【C1】
F
解析：此处需填入谓语动词，与speeded up和sorted out并列，故也是过去式形式。文章第一句提到公共交通运输改变了美国社会结构，推断它对城市生活的不稳定性同样会加剧，故选accelerated“使加速”。
2.【C2】
M
解析：此处需填入more修饰的形容词或分词，且与空格后的from搭配，修饰settled regions(居住区)。distant from意为“远离……”，表示居住区远离市中心2至4倍。
3.【C3】
H
解析：空格位于动词与宾语之间，应填入副词。空格后的two miles和后句的extended ten miles形成对比，说明two miles之短，故填scarcely“仅仅”。
4.【C4】
C
解析：此处需填入名词。作句子主语。上文说波士顿的边界距离老商业中心2英里，此句强调“波士顿市界的范同扩了10英里”，故radius“半径；范围”符合语境。
5.【C5】
A
解析：此处需填入名词，与work和shopping并列，与live相对，故选entertainment“娱乐消遣”，说明有能力负担的人可能住在远离老城中心的地方，而仍然去市中心上班、购物和娱乐。
6.【C6】
N
解析：此处应填入动词，和后面的fueled(激起)同为句子的谓语动词，故为过去式。由宾语explosion(爆发)可推断sparked“激发，激起”合适，与并列谓语动词fueled同义。
7.【C7】
I
解析：此处需填入形容词或分词，与subdivided一起修饰land。上文提到很多土地还没有占用(never occupied)，由此选择vacant“空的”。说明许多城市周围总有细分后留下的大量空地。
8.【C8】
E
解析：此处需填入these修饰的复数名词。应是上一句所提及的内容的概括。excesses意为“过量”，可以涵盖surplus(剩余)的意思，故正确。
9.【C9】
O
解析：空格在was和表语unplanned之间，故应填入副词。冒号后的内容是上句得出的结论，即城市蔓延根本没有计划性，essentially“实质上，根本上”符合句意。而上下文没有对城市蔓延进行比较或对比，故排除comparatively。
10.【C10】
K
解析：空格在句末，前面为were，故应填入形容词或分词。空格所在的定语从句修饰land near or outside city borders(临近城市或市界外的土地)。这些地方的交通线路和中产阶层居民都还没有进入，所以抢在交通线路和中产阶层的居民进去之前购买和置备住宅用地，这样做可以创造需求及响应需求。故填入anticipated“先于……行动”。
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