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What is the biggest city in the world? That is, __1__ city has the largest population? This seems like __2__ question to answer, but actually it isn't.
It's actually rather difficult to say which cities __3__ the largest. There are two reasons for this difficulty. First of all, it isn't easy to determine a city's boundaries, that is, where a city ends. Nowadays, nearly all cities have a large __4__ area around them. So when we talk about the population of a city, we often mean the population of the whole metropolitan area around the city. That means that it's difficult to determine what the population of a city is because it's difficult to define what a city is.
The second reason that it is difficult to __5__ the population of different cities is this: it is almost impossible to get __6__ about the population of all cities for the same year. For example, we might get an estimate of New York's population in 1979 and an __7__ of Mexico City's population in 1981. So we really can't compare the numbers because the information is for __8__ different years. And the population of cities changes rather quickly, especially in some cases. For example, the population of Beijing, China may increase by 5% each year, so the population figure will change rather quickly.
So we can say that these are our two __9__ for comparing the populations of cities: one, it's difficult to determine the __10__ of a city, and two, it is difficult to get accurate information.
1. A. what B. which C. where D. how
2. A. a difficult B. a troublesome C. easy D. an easy
3. A. are B. were C. is D. was
4. A. city B. urban C. suburban D. countryside ring.
5. A. compile B. compare C. conduct D. conclusion
6. A. informations B. knowledge C. background D. information
7. A. estimated B. count C. calculate D. estimate
8. A. one B. two C. three D. four
9. A. questions B. answers C. solutions D. problems
10. A. limits B. end C. limit D. edge
参考答案:
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. D
5. B compile 收集、编辑
The police have compiled a list of suspects.
conduct 领导、控制
6. D information 是不可数名词。
7. D 8. B
9. D question和problem的中文意思均为“问题”,但question指需要对方回答的问题
10. A limit: 表示界限、界线时,常用复数。
end: 末端、尽头。 edge: 边缘。
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