上海交通大学博士入学考试英语(回忆版:附阅读答案）其大作文题目为:大学是硬件重要还是有名学者重要？作文波及内容为：Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should spend more money in improving facilities （e。g。 libraries and computer labs) than hiring famous teachers.作文字数规定为：300 字左右。passage 6Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways。 It catalyzed physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses ， and it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion ， the omnibuses， horse railways， commuter trains， and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more distant form city centers than they were in the premodern era。 In 1850， for example， the borders of Boston lay scarcely two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius extended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far removed from the old city center and still commute there for work， shopping， and entertainment。 The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920 ， for example ， some 250 ， 000 new residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago， most of them located in outlying areas。 Over the same period， another 550，000 were plotted outside the city limits but within the metropolitan area 。 Anxious to take advantage of the possibilities of commuting， real estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty ...
