d. had often been misunderstood by some nations 9. It is clear in the passage that the disagreement over the concept of natural law _____ .
a. was actually of no significance in many parts of the world
b. meant that the term ''natural rights'' was no longer acceptable c. forced Margaret Fuller to introduce the term ''human rights''
d. undermined the work of the United Nations
The shopping centre emerged in the early 1920s in the suburbs that surrounded American cities.
Suburbs of that time were residential and depended on the traditional city centres for shopping.
The first suburban commercial centres had three certain features: they consisted of a number of
stores built and managed by a single developer; they were usually located at an important
intersection, and they provided plenty of free, off street parking. These shopping centres were
like small-town shopping districts, both in their architecture, which was carefully traditional,
and in their position, which integrated them into the surrounding neighbourhood. The stores
faced the street and the parking places were usually in the rear.
10. One can understand from the passage that before the introduction of shopping centres those
living in the residential suburban areas _____ .
a. were anxious to keep commercial activities there to a minimum
b. usually preferred to go to nearby small towns in order to do their shopping
c. found parking a great problem when they went downtown to shop
d. had to go into the centre of the city to do their shopping 11. It is clear in the passage that a popular location for the early shopping centres in the United
States was _____ .
a. the very heart of a big city with roads directly serving all the suburbs
b. one near an important road junction with space enough to provide adequate perking facilities c. the villages bordering on the suburbs of a town since they too would benefit from the
facilities
d. a suitable point midway between two or three suburban areas
12. We learn from the passage that the new shopping villages were like small-town shopping
areas _____ .
a. since many architects felt these could hardly be integrated effectively into suburban
conditions
b. although the stories faced onto the parking lots, not the streets