[单项选择]The scheme for rebuilding the city center （）, owing to the refusal of a Council to sanction the expenditure of the money it would have required.
A. fell down
B. fell out
C. fell off
D. fell flat

[单项选择]The scheme for rebuilding the city center（）owing to the refusal of a Council to sanction the expenditure of the money it would have required．
A. fell down
B. fell off
C. fell out
D. fell flat

[单项选择]Pedestrian zones reduce city center pollution.（　）
A. Traffic reductions have improved city center air quality.
B. Larger roads have reduced city center traffic jams.
C. Cycle areas have improved the flow of city center traffic.

[单项选择]（）they reached the center of the city, they stopped the car at a bar.
A. Before a mile or so when
B. Further than a mile or so
C. For a mile or so after
D. A mile or so before

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What is good about living close to the city center（）

A. Traveling by bus or car.
B. Living in an expensive way.
C. Enjoying city life.
D. Finding places to live in.

[单项选择]For many years the city has been a business center with hotel accomodation mainly for businessmen together with other ______ travellers and completely inadequate for the swarms of short-stay tourists landing in the city.
A. affluent
B. agonistic
C. afferent
D. amicable

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The way we live is mostly down to accidents of history. So what if we thought it through properly
In just a few thousand years, we humans have created a remarkable civilisation: cities, transport networks, governments, vast economies full of specialised labour and a host of cultural labels. It all just about works, but it’s hardly a model of rational design--instead, people in each generation have done the best they could with what they inherited from their predecessors. As a result, we’ve ended up trapped in what, in review, look like mistakes. What sensible engineer, for example,would build a sprawling, low-density megalopolis (巨大城市) like Los Angeles on purpose
Suppose we could try again. Imagine that Civilisation 1.0 evaporated tomorrow, leaving us with unlimited manpower, a willing populace and--most important--all the knowledge we’ve ac
A. The world we live in has too many accidents.
B. The remarkable civilizations were all works of the past.
C. The civilization we built is not a rational design.
D. The cities today have too much population.

[填空题]What scheme does Jatinder talk about

[填空题]I am very doubtful whether the proposed scheme would be ______ (advantage) to us.

[单项选择]The scheme was so impracticable that I refused even （　）.
A. to consider supporting it
B. considering to support it
C. to considering to support it
D. considering supporting it