問題詳情
四、閱讀測驗 A hundred years ago, the largest city in the world was London, with a population of 6.5 million. Today it isdwarfed by Tokyo. With barely a quarter the population of London a century ago, the Tokyo metropolitan areahas since mushroomed to 35 million, propelling it to first place in the global city league table. Tokyo’sphenomenal growth is largely due to a single factor: migration from the countryside to the city. It is just one ofmany to have overtaken London, which with a population of 7.5 million today doesn’t even make the top 20. The rural-to-urban migration can now be seen in scores of cities around the globe. And it has brought us to apivotal moment in human history. In 1900, most people lived in the countryside, with a little over 10 percent ofthe world’s population living in cities. From next year, the UN Population Division predicts that for the first timein history, more people will live in cities than in the country, and the biggest growth will be in “megacities,” with10 million. The meteoric growth of megacities—there are now more than 25 in total—has brought with it hugeenvironmental and social problems. Cities occupy just two percent of the land surface of the Earth but consumethree-quarters of the resources that are used up each year, expelling greenhouse gases, billions of tons of solidwaste, and rivers of toxic sewage. Their inhabitants are making ruinous demands on soils and water supplies forfood and on forests for timber and paper. Returning the world’s population to the countryside is not an option. Dividing up the planet into plots ofland on which we could all survive self-sufficiently would create its own natural disasters, not to mention beinghighly unlikely to even happen. If we were to protect what is left of nature, and meet the demand to improve thequality of living for the world’s developing nations, finding a new form of city living seems to be the onlysolution by mobilizing collaborative efforts to address this urgent agenda.
【題組】46. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage above?
(A) A New Megacity Initiative: A Redistribution of Resources
(B) A New City on the Rise: Tapping into the Undeveloped
(C) Megacities Boom: Problems to be Solved
(D) London and Tokyo: Exemplary Cities
參考答案
答案：C
難度：適中0.536965
統計：A(39),B(44),C(138),D(36),E(0)