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  3. What is suburbanization? If by "suburb" is meant an urban 【S1】______ that grows

What is suburbanization? If by "suburb" is meant an urban 【S1】______ that grows

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问题 What is suburbanization? If by "suburb" is meant an urban 【S1】______ that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the 【S2】______ of the industrial city in the second quarter of the 19th century. Before that period the city was a small highly 【S3】______ cluster in which people move about on foot and goods were 【S4】______ by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1830s and 1840s were 【S5】______ along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment.
    In time, the factories were 【S6】______ by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense 【S7】______ this encroachment and to enlarge their tax base, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia 【S8】______ most of Philadelphia County. Similar things 【S9】______ place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States 【S10】______ such status only by annexing the communities along their borders.

A located           B margin            C conveyed         D compact
E center            F emergence         G spacious         H surrounded
I abandoned         J plummet           K achieved         L took
M against           N for               O incorporated [br] 【S8】
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答案 O
解析 从上下文判断，这些郊区逐渐被“吞并”
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