Unit 9: Vocabulary related to cities in the future

Choose a word that best completes the following sentence:

Songdo is unique, offering city __________ something they have never had access to before.

• inhabitants

• inhabits

• habits

• habitats

The city officials are ________ that the downtown will continue to be a green population center.

• optimists

• optimistic

• pessimits

• pessimistic

The information will be collected through the _________.

• detects

• detective

• detectors

• dêtctively

Cities need to make full use of land in order to achieve urban ________.

• sustainable

• sustain

• sustainably

• sustainability

Some of the other problems predicted for the near future include limited and diminishing arable land, deforestation, __________, and degradation of land and water.

• urbanization

• urbanize

• urban

• urbanizing

The rapid growth of the population has caused daunting problems for city planners, such as __________ roads.

• overcrowded

• crowded

• overloaded

• loaded

New York City is expected to increase its ________ energy capacity by 50% by 2050.

• renew

• renewably

• renewable

• renewer

It's urgent to upgrade the city's transport ___________ because almost all the roads get flooded after heavy rain.

• infrastructural

• infrastructured

• structure

• infrastructure

City dwellers can enjoy better health care than people living in the _________,

• countryside

• country

• city

• county

As we move toward 2050, we are facing the consequences of ______ urbanization and population growth.

• promoting

• moving

• accelerating

• improving