The delay _______ processing the visa caused problems.
By the time I finish the final term exams, I _____ my first two years' study at university.
Of the two bridesmaids, Lisa was _____.
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Taking a trip to the foreign country is a good way to practice a second language, but it is too expensive for many people.
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Public speaking is quite a frightening experience for many people as it can produce a status of mind similar to panic.
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The amounts of oxygen and nitrogen in the air almost always remain stable, but the amount of water vapor vary considerably.
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Children learn primarily by directly experiencing the world around it.
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In 1823, the Post Office used steamboats to carry mails and parcels between post towns which no roads existed.
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"Let's go for a walk. We've been working all day," said Joanna.
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If I hadn’t had so much work to do I would have gone to the movies.
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The supermarket which is located at the corner of the street has an extensive range of teas.
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You could have been more tactful to her when you broke the news of her dismissal from work.
Since you were careful about the way you informed her, she wasn’t really hurt because of her dismissal from work.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer.
In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant considered New York's first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt's inviting facade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870's and early 1880's was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.
So while the city's newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints.
What is the passage mainly about?
It can be inferred that the majority of people who lived in New York's first apartments were _____.
The word “yield” in bold is closest in meaning to ____.
The word “it” in the second paragraph refers to _____.
Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1800s?