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Part 4: Listen and fill ONE WORD in the blank. You will listen THREE TIMES.
The topic of my lecture tonight is suburban sprawl. That's the movement of people from the center of the city to the (21) ........ -the smaller towns around the city.
Everyone knows that cities are centers of (22) ...... . Almost any city will have a university, a concert hall, (23) .......... , and maybe even an opera company. In addition, there is usually plenty of (24) ....... in cities. But even with all of these positive aspects, more and more people are (25) ........ from the city to the suburbs.
People move to the suburbs for many reasons. The most important reason is (26 ........ . Many people think that the suburbs are (27) ...... than the city. Also, many people believe that people who live in the suburbs are (28) ......... than city people.
However, there are disadvantages to life in the suburbs. For one thing, people who move to the suburbs often have (29) ........ free time, because they spend more time driving to and from work. Some people spend two or three hours a day in their cars. Also, the suburbs are not always (30) ........ . In some suburbs, there is as much crime as there is in cities.
