【填空题】

Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (^) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.

      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 going to attract poor
immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity 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-century London or early nineteenth-century
Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions written by            ______
eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the
enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very             ______
dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today - the poor can still______
be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,
but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised    ______
land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings        ______
it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the country as a     ______
Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them           ______
flooding out again to the suburbs.