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The fact that most Americans live in urban areas does not mean that they reside in the center of large cities. In fact, more Americans live in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas than in the cities themselves.
The Bureau of the Census regards any area with more than 2,500 people as an urban area, and does not consider boundaries of cities and suburbs.
According to the Bureau, the political boundaries are less significant than the social and economic relationships and the transportation and communication systems that integrate a localE.The term used by the Bureau for an integrated metropolis is an MSA, which stands for Metropolitan Statistical AreA.In general, an MSA is any area that contains a city and its surrounding suburbs and has a total population of 50,000 or morE.
At the present time, the Bureau reports more than 280 MSAs, which together account for 75 percent of the US population. In addition, the Bureau recognizes 18 megapolises, that is, continuous adjacent metropolitan areas. One of the most obvious megapolises includes a chain of hundreds of cities and suburbs across 10 states on the East Coast from Massachusetts to Virginia, including Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.In the Eastern Corridor; as it is called, a population of 45 million inhabitants is concentrateD.Another megapolis that is growing rapidly is the California coast from San Francisco through Los Angeles to San Diego.
Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Metropolitan Statistical Areas
B.Types of Population Centers
C.The Bureau of the Census
D.Megapolises

A.C.
B.
Which
C.Metropolitan
D.Types
E.The

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B
解析:主旨题型。 A和D都是文章叙述的一部分,c是进行统计的机构,因而应选B。
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'What does the middleman do but add to the price of goods in the shops?' Such remarks are aimed at the intermediate operations between manufacturers and final customers. This practice usually attracts a lot of attention from the public and the press and the operation most talked about is what is often called wholesaling.The wholesaler buys goods in large quantities from the manufacturers and sells them in smaller parcels to retailers, and for this service his selling price to the retailer is raised several percent higher. But his job is made more difficult by retail demand not necessarily running level with manufacturers' production. Because he adjusts or regulates the flow of goods by holding stock until required, he frees the manufacturer, to some extent, from the effect on production of changing demand and having to bear the whole risk.The manufacturer can then keep up a steady production flow, and the retailer has no need to hold heavy stocks, who can call on the wholesaler for supplies any timE.This wholesale function is like that of a valve in a water pipE.The middleman also bears part of the risk that would otherwise fall on the manufacturer and also the retailer.The wholesaler provides a purely commercial service, for which he is too well rewardeD.But the point that is missed by many people is that the wholesaler is not just someone adding to the cost of goods. It is true one could eliminate the wholesaler but one would still be left with his function: that of making sure that goods find their way to the people who want them.'Middleman' in the passage almost equals to all the following in meaning EXCEPT______.A.go-betweenB.intermediaryC.manufacturerD.wholesaler
A.'Middleman'
B.
A.go-between
B.intermediary
C.manufacturer