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"Avoid the rush hour" must be the slogan of large cities the world over. If it is, it’s a (36) no one takes the least notice of. Twice a day, with (37) regularity, the pot boils over. Wherever you look, it’s people, people, people. The trains which leave or arrive every few minutes are packed: an endless (38) of human sardine tins. The streets are so (39) , there is hardly room to move on the (40) . The queues for buses reach (41) proportions. It takes ages for a bus to get to you because the traffic on the roads has (42) come to a (43) . Large modern cities are too big to control. They condition the lifestyle of the people .who inhabit them. (44) . They lose touch with the land and rhythm of nature. (45) . A few flowers in a public park (if you have the time to visit it) may remind you that it is spring or summer. (46) . Beyond that, what is going on in nature seems totally irrelevant.