28. How do people react to the category of social challenges?
【解析】选。预读选项可以推测此题是考查They对them的态度。在听问题时需要留意They和them分别指代的是什么。
Passage Two
Today well examine the role that private transportation ― namely, the automobile ― plays in city planning.
A number of sociologists blame the automobile for the decline of the downtown areas of major cities. In the 1950s and 1960s the automobile made it possible to work in the city and yet live in the suburbs many miles away. Shopping patterns changed; instead of going to downtown stores, people in the suburbs went to large shopping malls outside the city and closer to the home. Merchants in the city failed, and their stores closed.
Downtown shopping areas became deserted. In recent years theres been a rebirth of the downtown area, as many suburbanites have moved back to the city. Theyve done this, of course, to avoid highways blocked with commuters from the suburbs. Ive chosen this particular city planning problem―our dependence on private transportation ― to discuss in groups. Im hoping you will all come up with some novel solutions. Oh, and dont approach the problem from a purely sociological perspective; try to take into account environmental and economic issues as well.
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
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