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CLOZE TEST (15 minutes, 15 points) Faster than ever before, the human world is becoming an urban world. By the millions they come, the ambitious and the down-trodden of the world drawn by the strange magnetism of urban __46___. For centuries the progress of civilization has been _47____ by the rigid growth of cities. Now the world is __48___ to pass a milestone: more people will live in urban areas than in the countryside. Explosive population growth_ 49____ a torrent of migration from the countryside are creating cities that dwarf the great capitals of the past. By the __50___ of the century, there will be fifty-one “megacities” with populations of ten million or more. Of these, eighteen will be in __51___ countries, including some of the poorest nations in the world. Mexico City already __52___ twenty million people and Calcutta twelve million. According to the World Bank, __53___ of Africas cities are growing by 10% a year, the swiftest __54___ of urbanization ever recorded. Is the trend good or bad? Can the cities cope? No one knows __55___. Without question, urbanization has produced __56___ so ghastly that they are difficult to comprehend. In Cairo, children who __57___ might be in kindergarten can be found digging through clots of ox waste, looking for ___58__ kernels of corn to eat. Young, homeless thieves in Papua New Guineas Port Moresby may not __59___ their last names or the names of the villages where they were born. In the inner cities of America, newspapers regularly report on newborn babies __60___ into garbage bins by drug-addicted mothers. 46. A. way B. life C. area D. people 47. A. defined B. estimated C. created D. expected 48. A. about B. up C. like D. already 49. A. of B. like C. and D. or 50. A. change B. wake C. beginning D. turn 51. A. developing B. developed C. develop D. development 52. A. makes B. has C. comes D. lives 53. A. none