QUESTIONS 6-10. COMPLETE THE NOTES. WRITE NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS ORA...
1,200 sq km of water. Because of this, San Francisco was once the major Pacific Coast
seaport of the United States. Today the city is an important center for finance, technology,
tourism, and culture.
B.
San Franciscans, and in some cases their counterparts in the Bay Area, have
successfully
undertaken
mammoth
construction
projects
such
as
the
San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit
system. Since at least the 1950s, San Franciscans have also earned a reputation for
tolerance of and respect for diversity.
C.
The most serious social problems facing the city are not unique to San Francisco, but
some have taken on greater dimensions in the city than they have elsewhere. One such
problem is homelessness. From 1988 to 1992, the plaza in front of city hall became an
encampment for homeless people, rendering other use impossible and raising public
health concerns. The problem of homelessness persists despite the efforts of city agencies
and private charities to provide shelter, health care, and drug, alcohol, and mental health
treatment. In the mid-and late 1990s mayors Frank Jordan and Willie Brown both sought
to discourage homeless people from living in public space in the downtown area and, in
Brown’s case, in Golden Gate Park. However, residents of other areas complained that
because of these projects, the displaced homeless had moved into their neighborhoods.
D.
In other areas the city has made some progress toward addressing social problems. As
was true across much of the nation, the crime rate in San Francisco dropped in the 1990s,
as did the rate of drug-related violence. In addition, some public housing projects in San
Francisco that were especially prone to violence and drug-related activity were razed and
rebuilt with designs considered less likely to encourage those activities. Other public
housing projects received stepped up security patrols.
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E.
Some social critics have pointed to an increasing economic and social polarization of
San Francisco’s population. Those who work in finance or high-tech fields are
increasingly affluent, pushing rents and home prices to among the highest levels in the
nation. At the same time, people who labor in the service sector often work for the
minimum wage, cannot share the affluent lifestyles around them, and are hard-pressed to
afford rising rents. This economic polarization coincides in part with ethnic and
educational patterns. Workers in the low-wage end of the service sector are likely to have
limited English proficiency and a high-school education or less; many workers in those
areas are also disproportionately African American and Hispanic. By contrast, those
people who work in the finance and high-tech sectors are more likely to be white or Asian
American and to have one or more college degrees.
Question 1-5: The five paragraphs of the Reading Passage are lettered A-E.
Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs A-E from the list of headings below.
NB There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.
List of headings