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
| There are a great many careers in which
the increasing emphasis is on specialization. You find these careers in
engineering, in production, in statistical work, and in teaching. But there is
an increasing demand for people who are able to take in a great area at a
glance, people who perhaps do not know too much about any one field. There
is, in other words, a demand for people who are capable of seeing the forest
rather than the trees, of making general judgment. We can call these people
"generalists". And these "generalists" are particularly needed for
positions in administration, where it is their job to see that other people do
the work, where they have to plan for other people, to organize other people’s
work, to begin it and judge it. The specialist understands one field, his concern is with technique and tools. He is a "tr A. a person who can see the trees as well as the forest B. a person who is well-educated in humanities C. a person who is trained with skills in a particular field D. a person who gives directions 我来回答: 提交
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