5. Many people believe that New York is the most great city in America.
IV. Choose the correct option A, B, C or D for each blank to complete the passage.
What will the city of the future look like? This question has been asked so many times over the
(1) _______________ 500 years – and answered inconsequentially an equal number of times –
that we can be sure of one thing only: no one can predict (2) _______________ how cities will
look 50 or 500 years from now.
The reason is simple. Cities change continually. For over fifty years they have changed so
rapidly that the oldest (3) _______________ will remember a time when their city seemed to
belong not just to another era but to a different dimension.
This is true both of planned and unplanned cities. Planned cities such as New York and Paris,
which are closely (4) _______________ on a grid or diagram of streets and avenues, have
effectively burst at the seams this century, while unplanned cities such as London, Tokyo and
Los Angeles have grown just as dramatically. (5) _______________ their centres might remain
much as they were many years ago, their suburbs have spread like the tentacles of an octopus.
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