Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete the sentences.
Read the following passage and choose the best option for each numbered blank.
City icons play an important role in the efforts of cities to get remembered. The icons are the city ___(39)_______ that appear on postcards sent to family and friends. By seeing one shot of the Golden Gate Bridge in a television series or movie, we know immediately it is San Francisco.
Good city icons carry a meaning. They tell a story about the associated city. For example, the Eiffel Tower is definitely the most ___(40)_______ symbol of Paris. It has a simple form but it symbolizes what Paris is and wants to be: the world's most ___(41)_______ city. Love couples from all over the world go up to see the sunset over Paris.
Besides, Rome's Colosseum stands for the true ___(42)_______ of Rome: an ___(43)_______ city that relies on its ___(44)_______ importance. The Colosseum as an icon shows the current importance of historical values among Rome's ___(45)_______.
Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
Unlike life in the countryside which is often considered to be simple and traditional, life in the city is modern and complicated. People, from different regions move to the cities in the hope of having a better life for them and their children. The inhabitants in city work as secretaries, businessmen, teachers, government workers, factory workers and even street vendors or construction workers.
The high cost of living requires city dwellers, especially someone with low income, to work harder or to take a part-time job. For many people, an ordinary day starts as usual by setting up in the early morning to do exercise in public parks, preparing for a full day of working and studying, then travelling along crowded boulevards or narrow streets filled with motor scooters and returning home after a busy day. They usually live in large houses, or high-rise apartment blocks or even in a small rental room equipped with modem facilities, like the Internet, telephone, television, and so on. Industrialization and modernization as well as global integration have a big impact on lifestyle in the cities. The most noticeable impact is the Western style of clothes. The "ao dai" - Vietnamese traditional clothes are no longer regularly worn in Vietnamese women's daily life. Instead, jeans, T-shirts and fashionable clothes are widely preferred.