Question

（2011·江西卷）C

The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After immigrating form England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”, almost certainly the source of Howard’s name for his later building plan of towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs.

The nineteenth-century poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities. At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression(蕭條) and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life. Howard’s idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard’s idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside; far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price.

Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms but also some industrial institutions. As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach its planned limit-Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away. Thus, over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide rang of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city.

66. How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities?

   A. Through his observation of the country life.

   B. Through the combination of different ideas.

   C. By taking other people’s advice.

   D. By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago.

67. The underlined phrase“drawing on ”in Paragraph 1 probably means______.

   A. making use of                                        B. making comments on

   C. giving an explanation of                          D. giving a description of

68. According to Howard, garden cities should be built______.

   A. as far as possible from existing cities

   B. in the countryside where the land was cheap

   C. in the countryside where agriculture was developed

   D. near cities where employment opportunities already existed

69. What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph?

   A. Their number would continue to rise

   B. Each one would continue to become larger

   C. People would live and work in the same place

   D. Each one would contain a certain type of business

70. What could be the best title for the passage?

   A. City and Countryside                               B. The Invention of the Garden City

   C.A New City in Chicago                             D. A Famous Garden City in England

Answer 1

66題：

答案：D

考點：細節理解題

解析：通過文章第一段的第三句得出：芝加哥的花園城市幾乎成為了Howard 后來命名的來源。選項選擇D, 選項A,B,C未體現

67題

答案：A

考點：詞義理解題

解析：通過文章第一段敘述可知Howard在到達芝加哥后有了創建“花園城市“的靈感，回到倫敦后，他運用當時所流行的觀點把各種設計進行了結合，形成了他自己的獨特設計。選項選擇A

68題

答案：B

考點：細節理解題

解析：根據文章第二段的最后一句話可知：要遠離現有的城市帶以保證土地可以以最低的價位買到。解題關鍵在：to make sure 表示目的是，重點在后面。Bottom price 指最低價格，對應文章選項的土地便宜。答案選擇B. 選項A,C,D 都不是建造花園城市的關鍵要求。

69題

答案：A

考點：細節理解題

解析：根據文章第三句可知：當越來越多的人搬入花園城市，花園城市就會達到它的預期極限，然后，在不遠的地方又會建造另外一個花園城市。答案選擇:A. 

選項B, 每一個花園城市并不會一直擴大，到了一定程度，就會到達極限，另一個花園城市會再建造起來，該選項錯誤

選項C. 不同的花園城市建造起來，人們不會在同一個地點生活和上班。該選項錯誤

選項D 每一個花園城市都有帶有農業和一些工業企業，并不只帶有一種特定的經濟。從最后一段的第二句可以得出該選項錯誤。

70題

答案：B

考點：主旨大意題

解析：從文章通篇可知，文章講到的是由芝加哥花園城市的建立到倫敦花園城市的建立，再到文章二段，三段講到的花園城市建立需要的一些條件和建立的模式可知道文章重點是圍繞花園城市的創立來展開的。A選項與文章本身不符合，C選項芝加哥新城只是文章開頭的引入，后面通篇圍繞的都是花園城市展開，與文章本身不符合，D選項的英格蘭花園城市只是花園城市的一個典型代表，選項并沒有進行通篇描述這一個花園城市，而是轉入花園城市的總體建立條件和模式展開。故答案選擇B.