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【单选题】The fact that mostAmericans live in urban areas does not mean that they reside in the center of large cities. In fact, moreAmericans live in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas than in the cities themselves.TheBureau of theCensus regards any area with more than 2,500 people as an urban area, and does not consider boundaries of cities and suburbs. According to theBureau, the political boundaries are less significant than the social and economic relationships and the transportation and communication systems mat integrate a locale. The term used by theBureau for an integrated metropolis is an MSA, which stands for Metropolitan StatisticalAre
A、In general, an MS
A、is any area that contains a city and its surrounding suburbs and has a total population of 50,000 or more. At the present time, theBureau reports more than 280 MSAs, which together account for 75 percent of the US population. In addition, theBureau recognizes 18 megapolises, that is, continuous adjacent metropolitan areas. One of the most obvious megapolises includes a chain of hundreds of cities and suburbs across 10 states on theEastCoast from Massachusetts to Virginia, includingBoston, New York, and Washington,D、
C、In theEasternCorridor, as it is called, a population of 45 million inhabitants is concentrateD、Another megapolis that is growing rapidly is theCalifornia coast from San Francisco through LosAngeles to SanDiego. According to the passage, where do mostAmericans live
A、In the center of cities.

B、In the suburbs surrounding large cities.

C、In rural areas.
D．In small towns.

网考网参考答案：B
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细节题型。答案出自第一段的第二句话…more Americans live in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas than in the cities themselves．metropolitan的意思是“大城市的”。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>