Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. About 12 million people - 10 percent of Japan’s (Question 41) ____ -live in Tokyo, while about 36 million live in the Greater Tokyo Area, making it the center region of the world’s (Question 42) ____ most populous metropolitan area. It is (Question 43) ___ one of the world’s major global cities. Tokyo is the nation’s political, (Question 44) ___, and cultural center. Tokyo went on to (Question 45) ___ two major catastrophes and has recovered remarkably (Question 46) ___ both. One was the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, and the other was World War II. The firebombings in 1945 were (Question 47) ____ as devastating as the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Large areas of the city were flattened. Tokyo’s subway and commuter rail network have become the busiest in the world (Question 48) ____ more and more people moved to the area. It is a major international finance center and (Question 49) ____ of the headquarters of several of the world’s largest investment banks and insurance companies, and serves (Question 50) __ a hub for Japan’s transportation, publishing, and broadcasting industries. Question 41:
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