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【单选题】SuburbIf "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city, in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.Before that period the city was a small, highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot, and goods were conveyed by horse and cart.But the early factories, built in the 1830’’s and 1840’’s, were located 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 surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses around the older, main cities.As a defence against this encroachment, and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854 for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of PhiladelphiaCounty. Similar municipal maneuvers took place inChicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders.With the acceleration of industrial growth come acute, urban crowding and accompanying social stress-conditions began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful electric traction line was develope
D、Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban middle class, whose desires for homeownership in neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developing of single-family housing tracts. It can be inferred from the text that after 1890 most people traveled around cities by______.
A、automobile
B．cart

C、horse-drawn trolley

D、electric streetcar

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
从本文可以推出：1890年之后，大部分人围绕城市的旅行是通过D)市内电车进行的，而不是A)汽车、B)二轮马车、C)马拉车。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>