填空题

Increasing numbers of people have migrated from the countryside and moved into towns and cities over the (77) . Most are in the Third World, where they are (78) accommodate because facilities are at their most inadequate and meager resources are most stretched. In spite of (79) living conditions, the vast numbers of people moving into cities constitute the biggest (80) ever. While governments can take action to improve the conditions of squatters, the real solution is to (81) the process of urbanization. But to do this governments need to change the ways in which they (82) their development funds on the urban areas. If their priorities (83) , rural productivity could be increased and this would help develop the national economy. In the end, however, the rural population also lacks the (84) that their urban countrymen can exert on governments.

• A. dreadful
• B. hardest to
• C. elated
• D. slow down
• E. boost
• F. last two centuries
• G. mass migration
• H. authority
• I. previous century
• J. market
  K. were reversed
  L. were abandoned
  M. concentrate
  N. power