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  3. Today, unplanned development, urban disinvestments(负投资), and a deteriorating

Today, unplanned development, urban disinvestments(负投资), and a deteriorating

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问题     Today, unplanned development, urban disinvestments(负投资), and a deteriorating quality of life have come to be known simply 【S1】______ "sprawl(无序扩展)." A poll released in February of this year by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism found that sprawl now ranks equally with crime as the number one local issue concerning American people. This genuine and quite understandable worry reflects the reality 【S2】______ in many areas of our country sprawl paves over the countryside, drains the vitality from our cities, and hurts our quality of life.
    A recent inventory(目录)from the Department of Agriculture found that the 【S3】______ of open land converted to development has more than doubled on an annual ’basis in the last five years. Today, more than 1.2 million hectares of our farms, forests, and open spaces are converted to 【S4】______ each year.
    The rate of developing open space far 【S5】______ the rate of population increase. For example, since 1950 the population of the St. Louis region increased 【S6】______ 35 percent, but just between 1950 and 1990, as the population moved outward, the amount of developed land increased by 355 percent.
    The same development that is eating up open space is also sucking 【S7】______ out of the cities. Between 1994 and 1997, a study that looked at seven metropolitan areas in Ohio found there were 10 jobs created in the suburbs for every one in the cities. As jobs leave the cities, it becomes harder and harder for 【S8】______ to find good jobs and for government to provide services.
    As we spread farther out, Americans must travel 【S9】______ distances between home, work, shopping, and recreation. As a result, families depend on cars for more and more of their daily travel. While the U.S. population has been increasing about 1 percent a year, vehicle miles traveled have risen 3.2 percent a year—more than three times the rate of population growth.
    Americans living in suburbs also pay for sprawl—in time, money, and frustration. In 1999, a major traffic 【S10】______ found that nationally, the amount of time Americans waste in gridlock nearly doubled in the last decade. The report estimates that each year Americans waste more than 25,000 million liters of gasoline sitting in traffic, and that the cost of congestion(拥塞) now exceeds $72,000 million a year.

          Word Bank:
A. amount           I. number
B. for              J. that
C. exceeds          K. smaller
D. as               L. by
E. citizens         M. survey
F. development      N. residents
G. reaches          O. greater
H. jobs
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答案 D
解析 be known经常和介词for或as搭配，构成短语。be known for意思为“以……而闻名”，be known as意思为“被叫做……”，根据句子的上下文应当选择介词as。
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