单选题
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Directions: You are going
to read a passage. Five sentences have been removed from it. Choose from the
sentences A-E the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you
do not need to use.
Questions 73-76 are based on the following passage.
The
most interesting architectural phenomenon of the 1970s was the enthusiasm for
refurbishing old buildings. Obviously, this was not an entirely new phenomenon.
{{U}}(73) {{/U}}. A few trial efforts, such as Ghirardelli Square in San
Francisco, proved their financial viability in the 1960s, but it was in the
1970s, with strong government support through tax incentives and rapid
depreciation, as well as growing interest in ecology issues, that recycling
became a major factor on the urban scene.
One of the most
comprehensive ventures was the restoration and transformation of Boston's
eighteenth century Faneuil Hall and the Quincy Market, designed in 1842. This
section had fallen on hard times, but beginning with the construction of a new
city hall immediately adjacent, {{U}}(74) {{/U}} under the design
leadership of Benjamin Thompson. He has provided a marvelous setting for dining,
shopping, professional offices, and simply walking.
Butler
Square, in Minneapolis, exemplifies major changes in its complex of offices,
commercial space, and {{U}}(75) {{/U}} designed in 1906 as a hardware
warehouse. The exciting interior timber structure of the building was
highlighted by cutting light courts through the interior and adding large
skylights.
San Antonio, Texas, {{U}}(76) {{/U}} . Rather
than bringing in the bulldozers, San Antonio's leaders rehabilitated existing
structures, while simultaneously cleaning up the San Antonio River, which
meanders through the business district.
Sentences:
A. offers an object lesson for
numerous other cities combating urban decay
B. What is new is
the wholesale interest in reusing the past, in recycling, in adaptive
rehabilitation.
C. During the 1970s, old buildings in many
cities were recycled for modem use.
D. public amenities carved
out of a massive pile
E. It has returned to life with the
intelligent reuse of these fine buildings.