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【单选题】In one sense, we can trace all the problems of theAmerican city back (91) a single starting point: weAmericans don’t like our cities very much.
That is, on the (92) of it, absurD、After all, more than three-fourths of us now live in cities, and more are (93) to them every year. We are told that the problems of our cities are (94) more attention in Washington, and scholarship has discovered a whole new (95) in urban studies.
(96) , it is historically true: in theAmerican psychology, the city has been a basically suspect institution, (97) with the corruption ofEurope, totally lacking that sense of spaciousness and innocence of the (98) and the rural landscape.
I don’t pretend to be a scholar on the history of the city inAmerican life.But my thirteen years in public (99) , first as an officer of the U. S.Department of Justice, then asCongressman, and now as Mayor of the biggest city inAmerica have taught me (100) too well the fact that a strong antiurban attitude (101) consistently through the mainstream ofAmerican thinking. Much of the (102) behind the settlement ofAmerica was in reaction (103) the conditions inEuropean industrial centers and much of the theory (104) the basis of freedom inAmerica was linked directly to the availability of land and the perfectibility of man outside the corrupt influences of the city.
What has this to do with the predicament of the modern city I think it has (105) to do with it. For the fact is that the United States (106) the federal government, which has historically established our national priorities, has simply never thought that theAmerican city was "worthy" of (107) —at least not to the (108) of expending any basic resources on it.
Antipathy to the city predates theAmerican experience. When industrialization (109) theEuropean working man into the major cities of the continent, books and pamphlets appeared (110) the city as a source of crime, corruption, filth, disease, vice, licentiousness, subversion, and high prices.

A、many
B．much
C．lots
D．great

网考网参考答案：B
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