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Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
More and more of the word’s population are living in towns or cities. The speed at which cities are growing in the less developed countries is（36）______. Between 1920 and 1960 big cities in developed countries（37）______ two and a half times in size, but in other parts of the world the growth was eight times their size.
They（38）______ size of growth is bad enough, but there are now also very（39）______ signs of trouble in the（40）______ of percentages of people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry. During the nineteenth century cities grew as a result of the growth of industry. In Europe the（41） ______ of people living in cities was always smaller than that of the （42） working in factories. Now, however, the（43）______ is almost always true in the newly industrialized world:（44）________________________________________________________________.
Without a base of people working in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth;（45）________________________________________________________________. There has been little opportunity to
build water supplies or other facilities. （46） ________________________________________________________________ a growth in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.
