More and more of the world's population are living in towns or
cities. The speed at which cities are growing in the less developed
countries is (36)_____ Between l920 and I960 big cities in developed
countries (37)_____ two and a half times in size, but in other parts
of the world the growth was eight times their size.
The (38)_____ size of growth is bad enough, but there are now
very(39)___sign of trouble in the (40)______ of percentages of
people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry
IN grew as a result of the growth of industry. In Europe the
(41)_____ of people living in cities was always smaller than that of
the(42)_____ working in factories. N0w however,the (43)_____ is
almost always true in the newly industrialised world(44)_____
Without a in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth;
(45)_____ There has been little opportunity to build to bulid water
supplies or other factilities(46)_____ a growth in the number of
hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.
参考答案：36 alarming
37 increased
38 sheer
39 disturbing
40 comparison
41 proportion
42 workforce
43 reverse
44 The percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the
percentage working in industry
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