完形填空。阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Thanks to a combination of young businessmen, large numbers of university students and revitalization (新生) efforts by the local and national governments, today’s Nanjing has an       1    of youthful exuberance (繁茂) that would have been    2   only a few decades ago.   3   , the city, a booming city of 6.5 million on the banks of the Yangtze River some 185 miles west of Shanghai, bears    4    resemblance to the former capital of China that suffered the worst cruelty and violence of World War II.