* Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 30. MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French geographer Jean Gottman to describe the north-eastern United States in 1961. The term is used more widely now and is defined as an urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants dominated by a low-density housing. In 1995 there were 14 megacities. By ...
Tôi yêu Việt Nam | Chat Online | |
02/09 11:40:42 (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12) |
* Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 30.
MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY
A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French geographer Jean Gottman to describe the north-eastern United States in 1961. The term is used more widely now and is defined as an urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants dominated by a low-density housing. In 1995 there were 14 megacities. By 2020 there could be 30.
Megacities are the result of the process of urbanization. After cities grew into crowded urban centres, people who could afford to move into suburbs at the edge of the city. When the suburbs in turn became crowded, people moved into villages and dormitory towns outside the city, but within commuting distance. In this way, for the first time since industrialisation, the countryside began to gain population, whereas cities lost their inhabitants. In the 1980s St Louis and Detroit in the America lost between 35 and 47 per cent of their populations and London lost 15 per cent in the 20 years to 1971.
However, this movement away from cities does not mean that the city is dying. In fact it is spreading. From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments. When these metropolitan areas merge together, they form megacities which contain over 10 million people. The largest of these is in America, called Boswash - a region over 300 miles long from Boston in the north to Washington, DC in the south with more than 44 million people. There are emerging megalopolises in Britain centred around London and the south-east, in Germany in the industrial region of the Ruhr and Japan in the Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto region.
(adaptedfrom Archive IELTS (2013), Louis Harrison et al., Cengage Learning)
Areas merging together form __________.
Lựa chọn một trả lời để xem Đáp án chính xác Báo sai đáp án hoặc câu hỏi |
A. city spread 0 % | 0 phiếu |
B. megacity 0 % | 0 phiếu |
C. suburb movement 0 % | 0 phiếu |
D. village movement 0 % | 0 phiếu |
Tổng cộng: | 0 trả lời |
Tags: * Read the following passage and mark the letter A. B. C. or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 30.,MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY,(adaptedfrom Archive IELTS (2013). Louis Harrison et al.. Cengage Learning)
Trắc nghiệm liên quan
- * Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 30. MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French ... (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 30. MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French ... (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or O on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. It’s just not possible for the cat to have opened the fridge. (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or O on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. No one expect the graduate assistant understood the results of the experiments. (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions. Our grandmother might have phoned while we were out. (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or O on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. You need to study your vocabulary words. You can do well on the quiz. (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions. Now our parents are still alive. We should be grateful to them and thank them for what they have done ... (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or O on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. “Huy hasn’t finished his assignment, has he (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or O on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. Lan: Can we meet this Sunday to discuss our plan for the wildlife protection project? Nam: __________ (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
- * Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. “Some body forgot this hat. I wonder_________.” (Tiếng Anh - Lớp 12)
Trắc nghiệm mới nhất
- Calcium hydroxide là chất rắn màu trắng, ít tan trong nước. Phát biểu nào sau đây sai? (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Ứng dụng của silicon là (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Từ cát thạch anh (cát trắng) sản xuất ra (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Công đoạn chính để sản xuất đồ gốm theo thứ tự lần lượt là (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Phát biểu nào sau đây không đúng về silicon? (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Vì sao vôi tôi được sử dụng để xử lí SO2 trong khí thải? (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Nhỏ một vài giọt hydrochloric acid lên một viên đá vôi thu được hiện tượng nào sau đây? (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Để sản xuất thủy tinh loại thông thường, cần các nguyên liệu nào sau? (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Vôi tôi là tên gọi của hợp chất nào sau đây? (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)
- Quặng nào sau đây không có thành phần chủ yếu là oxide của kim loại? (Khoa học tự nhiên - Lớp 9)