______THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS THEY HAVE MENTIONED IN THE MEETING, HE...

10. ______the negative effects they have mentioned in the meeting, he boss till wants to carry out the plan.

A. Despit

B. However

C. Although

D. Bad as

III.

READING

Choose the best answers to fill in the blanks.

What will the city of the future look like? This question has been asked so many times over the last 500

years – and answered inconsequently an equal number of times – that we can be sure of (1) ______ thing

only: no one can predict accurately (2) ______ cities will 50 or 500 years from now.

The reason is simple. Cities change continually. For over fifty years they have changed (3) ______ rapidly

that the oldest residents will remember a time (4) ______ their city seemed to belong not just to another era

(5) ______ to a different dimension.

This is true both of planned and unplanned cities. Planned cities such as New York and Paris, (6) ______

are closely organized on a girl or diagram of streets and avenues, have effectively burst at the seams this

century, (7) ______ unplanned cities such as London, Tokyo and Los Angeles have grow just as

dramatically. (8) _____ their centers might remain much as they were many years ago, their suburbs have

spread (9) ______ the tentacles of an octopus.

Some economists argue that expansion is a sign of healthy economy, now that expanding cities (10) ______

international investment.