更多"If by 'suburb' (1) an urban margi"的相关试题:
[单项选择]If by "suburb" (1) an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small (2) compact cluster in which people moved (3) on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1840’s were located along waterways and near railheads at the (4) of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people (5) by the prospect of employment. (6) , the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a (7) against this encroachment and to (8) their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County. Similar (9) maneuvers took
A. is meant
B. was meant
C. is meaning
D. was meaning