英语四级改错精练(7)

　　When some nineteenth century New Yorkers said "Harlem",
　they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street.
　Toward the end of the century, however, a group
　of citizens in upper Manhattan-want perhaps, to shape a closer 1._________
　and more precise sense of community—designated a section that
　they wished to have known as Harlem. The chosen area was the
　Harlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the 2.________
　new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and
　lower blocks of the West Side.

　As the community became predominantly Black, the very
　word "Harlem" seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.________
　easy to forget that "Harlem" was originally the Dutch name
　"Harlem"; the community it described had been founded by 4.________
　people from Holland；and that for most of its three centuries—it
　was first settled in the sixteen hundreds—it had been preoccupied 5.________
　by White New Yorkers. "Harlem" became synonymous to 6.________
　Black life and Black style in Manhattan. Blacks living there
　used the word as though they had coined it on themselves—not 7.________
　only to designate their area of residence but to express their
　sense of the various qualities of its life and atmosphere. As the
　years passed, "Harlem" asserted an even larger meaning. In 8.________
　the words of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., the pastor of the
　Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem "became the symbol of liberty
　and the Promised Land to Negroes everywhere".