申論題

    At this time the train station decided to shape up and take on the character of the steel and glass framed high-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 six train platforms woefully (2) i t. Those platforms were only (3) s e for a city of a few hundred thousand people. 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) d down 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 after hours of rocking and (9) s ing did one get to lie flat in the comfortable bed in his hometown, swollen feet propped 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 . . .