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Correct option is A. As used in line 68, "conducted" is closest in
meaning to carried out.
In lines 66-68, the author notes that American cities in 1974 each had a “downtown, where the commercial life of the metropolis was conducted.” In this context, the author is stating that these cities “conducted,” or carried out, business, the “commercial life,” in downtown areas.
Choices B, C, and D are incorrect because in this context, “conducted” does not mean supervised, regulated, or inhibited.
This question is based on passage which is adapted from Alan Ehrenhalt, The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City. ©2013 by Vintage, following is the passage -
"We are not witnessing the abandonment of the
suburbs, or a movement of millions of people back to
the city all at once. The 2010 census certainly did not
turn up evidence of a middle-class stampede to the
5 nation’s cities. The news was mixed: Some of the
larger cities on the East Coast tended to gain
population, albeit in small increments. Those in the
Midwest, including Chicago, tended to lose
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Virtually every city in the country had a downtown,
where the commercial life of the metropolis was
68 conducted; it had a factory district just beyond; it had
districts of working-class residences just beyond that;
70 and it had residential suburbs for the wealthy and the
upper middle class at the far end of the continuum.
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resources to move out; they are living in the suburbs
from day one."
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