Listening # Future Cities

The audio has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English.

FUTURE CITIES

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Answer the following question in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

  1. Name the computer game about city building?
  2. What is the percentage of world’s population that will be living in cities in 2050?
  3. Which term is used for an imaginary place where everything is perfect?
  4. Which term is used to refer to the way a city spread into an underdeveloped land around it?
  5. Which word is used to describe poor communities where houses are built of cheap materials?
  6. What is used to refer to the basic facilities a town or city needs?
  7. Which organization are John Rossant founder and chairman of?
  8. Which term is used to refer to something that is present everywhere?
  9. Which term is used to refer to something that can significantly affect the way things are?
  10. What percent of world’s population lives in cities in the present?

ANSWERS

  1. SimCity
  2. 70%
  3. Utopia
  4. Urban Sprawl
  5. Shanty towns
  6. Infrastructure
  7. New Cities Foundation
  8. Ubiquitous
  9. Game changer
  10. 54%
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