填空题

White neighborhoods are becoming darker in (1) ______ and more expensive. (1) ______
Analysts say that soaring house prices and booming car sales are being fueled
by an (2) ______ mobile black middle class (2) ______
emerging from the ashes of (3) ______ (3) ______
Blacks, who make up about 75 percent of South Africa’s 46.6 million people,
are moving from the (4)______ of the economy into the mainstream (4) ______
thanks to policies aimed at redressing decades of injustice.
Statistics compiled by the independent Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
show that the black middle class has (5) ______ to 7.8 percent of the total
population in 2000 from 3.3 percent in 1994. (5) ______
"The development of a black middle class was deliberately stunted under segregation
and apartheid," said the HSRC’s Roger Southall.
Although official figures are not (6) ______ , (6) ______
analysts say the black middle class is behind the retail sales boom and strong
house price growth.
Before 1994, blacks were (7) ______ by legislation from owning properties in
suburbs exclusively reserved for whites and had limited access to bank credit. (7) ______
But the face of the former white suburbs has changed as blacks (8) ______ move
from the townships in search of security and better municipal services. (8) ______
Living in posh suburbs is seen by many as a status symbol.’
"The black middle class is (9) ______ strongly to the growth of the property
market and other sectors of the economy," says Jacques du Toit, an economist at
banking gr oup Absa. (9) ______
House prices rose by an (10) ______ of 30.3 percent in real terms in 2004, (10) ______
the highest since 1967, and business is also booming for auto traders, with a
growing number of sales attributed to black buyers.