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1. B. Urban renewal is the process of improving the environmental
and living quality of decaying inner city through comprehensive
urban planning. Urban areas will not expand in this way.
2. C
3. D
4. B. (1) and (4) are factors encouraging suburbanisation in Hong
Kong.
5. C. Urban areas have more job opportunities than rural areas,
and the buildings in urban areas are usually high-rise.
6. C
7. A
8. A
9. B
10. B
11. A
12. D
13. A
14. C
15. A. Building of high-rise buildings is vertical expansion.
16. A
17. D
18. B
19. A
20. C; A; B
21. D
22. A
23. B
24. D
25. C
26. C
27. B. There are more job opportunities in the urban area than the
suburb, therefore (2) is incorrect.
28. B
29. D
30. D
31. D
32. C
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33. A. The accessibility of farmland near urban area and main road
is high, therefore land price is high. Farmers may abandon their
farmland and sell it to land developers to gain profit.
34. D
35. C
36. A
37. C
38. A; B
39. B
40. C
41. A; C
42. C. The photos show illegal land use of open container storage.
43. B; C
44. C, C
45. C
46. A. Liverpool is an inner city of the UK. Many urban problems
can be found in it.
47. C. (2) Industrial estate would create pollution, so it is not a
favourable factor; B. (3) The construction of low-density residential
area in Nam Sang Wai is a process of urban encroachment.
48. B
49. D; B; B
50. C
51. B; C
52. C. Land can be fully utilised through urban redevelopment.
After pulling down old buildings, modern residential buildings can
be built on the site with more housing units.
53. C
54. D
55. B
56. D
57. D
58. D
59. B
60. A
61. D
62. A
63. D
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64. C
65. A
66. C; A
67. D
68. D
69. D
70. C. The level of water and air pollution of City C is the lowest.
71. C
72. A. LPG is a non-renewable energy. Although LPG is cleaner
and cheaper than diesel and petrol, it is expensive to convert the
cars. Thus this power is still not widely used.
73. B; D
74. B
75. D
76. D
77. D. The glass walls on green buildings should be low heat-
transmitting so as to lower the power usage on air conditioner.
78. C
79. B
80. C
81. B
82. A
83. A
84. D
85. A; D; B
86. B
