The Miguel Street is a slum that is unworthy of a place in literary works.

The visit to the slum areas brought home to me what poverty really means.

I spent the evening __________ in front of the TV. A: slug B: slumped C: slum D: slump

What is the feature of the Miguel Street?? It is a caste society like India|It mainly consists of the native laborers|It is a slum with indentured laborers|It is a place for artists

In this land of plenty, we must be ashamed of the ______ and suffering that still exists in the slum areas. A: poverty B: misery C: filth D: anguish

The word _______ means “a house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live”. A: shelter B: department C: loft D: slum

The past few decades in Birmingham have proved that slum clearance ______. A: will usually take longer than expected B: creates as many problems as it solves C: often raises racial issues D: always achieves its aims, if well planned

The fall of those slum houses has been embedded by Dickens with two layers of implications, ( ). A: the fall of the hypocritical capitalist humanism B: the rocketing development of capitalism C: the precarious state of existence of those disenfranchised groups D: the extremely dire financial conditions