Great Britain is one of the most important commercial and trading centers in the world. Britain buys more goods than she sells; her imports exceed her exports. Not being a great agricultural country, England has to obtain her food supplies largely from abroad. She also bas to import many raw materials, such as wool from Australia; timber from Sweden and Finland; cot ton, petroleum and tobacco from the United States. Wine and fruit are imported rom France. Italy, Spain, and the Dominions; dairy produce from Denmark and Holland, and so on.
One of the most extensive industries in England is the textile industry; immense quantities of cotton and woolen goods and artificial silk are produced and exported. English leather goods are also in great demand in other countries.
Great Britain is noted for its coal-mines and for iron and steel goods, and it supplies many countries with certain classes of machinery. Another leading industry in this country is ship building. The
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 1.（） going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity 2.（）which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of seventeenth-3.（）century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale.4.（）Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very 5.（）dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today — the poor can still be 6.（）numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies 7.（）two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants 8.（）from rural poverty and brings it fl
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