II. Cloze and Writing 30% 
(A) Instructions: Please fill in each blank with a proper word to make the article meaningful and fluent
    At this time the train station decided to shape up and take on the character of the steel and glass framedhigh-rises of the city. The station, as the transportation hub of the capital city, should have a metropolitan(1) a e, being savvy and sophisticated. With its burgeoning population of millions, the city found a mere sixtrain platforms woefully (2) i t. Those platforms were only (3) s e for a city of a few hundred thousandpeople. The old tracks, like the old roads downtown, should (4) into the memories of the prosperous city.    Everyone awaited the miracle of transportation to be created by the city. Expectations were high (5)the days were over when people had to pull cumbersome suitcases up the steps of highway crosswalks, (6) ddown underground walk-ways and climb staircases to platform areas. (7) B es used to appear on the shoulder,where bag straps had strained the blood vessels, and one still got only a (8) t for standing room. Only afterhours of rocking and (9) s ing did one get to lie flat in the comfortable bed in his hometown, swollen feetpropped up high on a couple pillows, sleeping away his (10) f e in the shape of a dead body.    One day, a certain gentleman came to the new train station after hosting guests for a fancy dinner . . .
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