单选题 In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.
The {{U}}ghost towns{{/U}} of China, Ireland and Spain—full of large empty house estates— may be a phenomenon that is on its way to Africa. Built for people who never move in, they leave those who did with a worthless property they cannot sell.
Perched in an isolated spot some 30 km (18 miles) outside Angola's capital, Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba is a brand-new mixed residential development of 750 eight-storey apartment buildings, a dozen schools and more than 100 retail units.
Designed to house up to half a million people when complete, Kilamba has been built by the state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) in under three years at a reported cost of $3.5 bn (￡2.2 bn).
Spanning 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres), the development is the largest of several new "satellite cities" being constructed by Chinese firms around Angola, and it is believed to be one of the largest new-built projects on the continent.
The jewel in Angola's post-war reconstruction crown, Kilamba is the star of glossy government promotional videos which show smiling families enjoying a new style of living away from the dust and contusion of central Luanda where millions live in sprawling slums. But the people in these films are only actors, and despite all the hype, nearly a year since the first batch of 2,800 apartments went on sale, only 220 have been sold.
When you visit Kilamba, you cannot help but wonder if even a third of those buyers have moved in yet. The place is eerily quiet, voices bouncing off all the fresh concrete and wide-open tarred roads. There are hardly any cars and even fewer people, just dozens of repetitive rows of multi-coloured apartment buildings, their shutters sealed and their balconies empty. Only a handful of the commercial units are occupied, mostly by utility companies, but there are no actual shops on site, and so—with the exception of a new hypermarket located at one entrance—there is nowhere to buy food.
After driving around for nearly 15 minutes and seeing no-one apart from Chinese laborers, many of whom appear to live in containers next to the site, I came across a tiny pocket of life at a school. It opened six months ago, bussing in its pupils from outlying areas because there are no children living on site to attend. One student, a 17-year-old called Sebastiao Antonio—who spends nearly three hours a day in traffic getting to and from classes from his home 15 km away—told me how much he liked the city. "I really like this place—it's got car parking, places for us to have games like football, basketball and handball," he said. "It's very quiet, much calmer than the other city, there's no criminality." But when I asked if he and his family would move there, he just laughed. "No way, we can't afford this. It's impossible. And there is no work for my parents here," he said. His sentiments were echoed by Jack Franciso, 32, who started work at Kilamba as a street sweeper four months ago. "Yes, it's a nice place for sure," he said. But then he sighed: "To live here, you need a lot of money. People like us don't have money like that to be able to live here." And therein lies the problem. Apartments at Kilamba are being advertised online costing between $120,000 and $200,000—well out of reach of the estimated two-thirds of Angolans who live on less than $2 a day. However, Paulo Cascao, general Manager at Delta Imobiliaria, the real estate agency handling the sales, told the BBC that the problem was not the price, but difficulty in accessing bank credit. "The prices are correct for the quality of the apartments and for all the conditions that the city can offer," he said. "The sales are going slowly due to the difficulty in obtaining mortgages."
A new legal flame work has recently been introduced to allow local banks to give mortgages, but for the majority of Angolans, even the few with well-paid office jobs, just finding enough cash for a deposit would be a struggle.
"The government needs to start giving priority to building low-cost housing because great majority of the population live in shacks with no water, electricity or sanitation," Elias Isaac, country director at the Angolan Office of the Open Society Initiative for South African (OSISA), told the BBC.
"There is no middle class in Angola, just the very poor and the very rich, and so there is no one to buy these sorts of houses."

单选题 The phrase "ghost town" in Paragraph 1 means a town ______.

A. which abounds with ghost stories
B. which suffered disasters
C. full of large empty house estates
D. which is densely populated

单选题 Which of the following statements is NOT true about Kilamba?

A. Kilamba is the jewel in Angola's post-war reconstruction crown.
B. Kilamba is a new mixed residential development with a dozen schools and 100 retail units.
C. Kilamba has been built by CITIC at a reported cost of $3.5 bn.
D. Of the 750 eight-storey apartment buildings only 220 apartments have been sold.

单选题 Kilamba became a "ghost town" because ______.

A. few people want to buy the houses there
B. the prices for the houses are too high
C. it is difficult to get mortgages
D. it is difficult to find a shop there

单选题 What's the author's attitude in writing the article?

A. Ironic.
B. Neutral.
C. Prejudiced.
D. Critical.

单选题 Which of the following would be the title of the passage?

A. Angola's Chinese-built Ghost Town
B. Kilamba—Jewel in Angola's Post-war Reconstruction Crown
C. Obtaining House Mortgages in Kilamba
D. Low Cost Buildings for the Very Poor in Luanda