A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor S1. __________ immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity S2. __________ which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were S3. __________ on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine- teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions S4. __________ written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, S5. __________ are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the S6. __________ poor can still be numbered in millions. The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper- ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a S7. __________ promised land, that attracts immigrants S8. __________ and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the S9. __________ country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, S10. __________ sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.
答案：S1. 在new前面加不定冠词a S2. 将filling 改为filled S3. just as thought改为just as S4. 将This改为What S5. 将was改为were S6. 将dissimilar改为similar S7. 将lies改为lie S8. 将that改为which S9. 将it改为them S10. 将late改为later
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