Questions 61 to 70 are based on the following passage.
【真题来源：2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第一套）Part Ⅲ，Section B，第36-45题】
A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own
A) Getting around a city is one thing — and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another. One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.
In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next. Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses “rapid, long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.”
B) “The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century. the 20th century a highway, car, truck century一and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,” Kasarda says. Songdo, a city built from scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasarda's prime examples. It has existed for just a few years.“ From the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,”says Kasada. “The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District. And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport.”
C) Songdo is a stone's throw from South Korea's Incheon Airport, its main international hub (枢纽). But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the future. Just building a place as an “international business district” doesn't mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived (构想) this city of the future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. “I am a visionary,” he says. Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo. It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There's a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.
D) Chances are you've actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea. “Gangnam Style” refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in Songdo.“I don't know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo,” says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London's Bartlett School of Planning, “Part of the reason to shoot there is that it's new and nice.”
E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world. But hat's not how it has turned out. Songdo's reputation is as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality is more complicated. A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the center of the main road, there's a long line of flags of the world. On the corner, there's a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven--all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.
F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers -- even in the middle of the day. when it's 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the schools are great. And that's the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city 一more popular as a residential area than a business one. It's not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined. “It's a great place to live. And it's becoming a great place to work,” says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company's offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats. Shimmering (闪烁的) glass towers line the canal's edge.
G) “What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here,” he says. “There needs to be strong economic incentives.” The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park. It doesn't feel all that futuristic. There's a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings are environmentally friendly. Everybody's television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.
H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents, Songdo feels hollow. “I'm, like, in prison for weekdays. That's what we call it in the workplace,” says a woman in her 20s. She doesn't want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job. She goes back to Seoul every weekend. “I say I'm prison-breaking on Friday nights.” But she has to make the prison break in her own car. There's no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away.
I) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated. too. Park says he built South Korea a luxury vehicle, “like Mercedes or BMW. It's a good car now. But we're waiting for a good driver to accelerate.” But there are lots of other good cars out there, too. The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies
J) Songdo's backers contend that it's still early, and business space is filling up—about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied. Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle. “There have been a lot of utopian (乌托邦的) cities in history. And the reason we don't know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely.” In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.
Songdo's popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息popularity、more...than…、quality of life和business。文中论及松岛受欢迎的相关内容出现在F段。该段提到，松岛已经成为一个受欢迎的韩国城市——但作为住宅区比作为商业区更受欢迎。由此可知，松岛受欢迎更多地在于它的生活质量，而不是它的商业吸引力。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中popularity对应原文中的popular，quality of life对应原文中的residential area，而business attraction对应原文中的business one，故答案为F。
The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息conceived、feels disappointed和fallen short of his expectations。文中论及构想松岛的人感到失望的相关内容出现在I段。该段提到，朴延洙，第一个构想松岛的人，也感到沮丧。他说他为韩国制造了一辆豪华汽车，但是要等一个好司机来为它提速。由此可知，朴延洙感到失望，因为松岛没有达到他的预期。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中conceived对应原文中的imagined，feels disappointed对应原文中的feels frustrated，故答案为I。
A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息a scene、South Korean、music video、shot和Songdo。文中论及音乐视频的相关内容出现在D段。该段提到，松岛出现在韩国有史以来最著名的音乐视频《江南Style》中，有一个场景在地铁里，那实际上是在松岛拍摄的。由此可知，音乐视频中有一个场景是在松岛拍摄的。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中，shot对应原文中的filmed，a scene、music video和Songdo为原词复现，故答案为D。
Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息financial stimulus、 businesses和set up shop。文中论及松岛财政刺激的相关内容出现在G段。该段提到，要想让企业也来这里（松岛），就需要强有力的经济激励。由此可知，松岛仍然缺乏对企业在那里营业的财政刺激。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中financial stimulus对应原文中的economic incentives，businesses对应原文中的companies，而set up shop对应原文中的locate，故答案为G。
Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a professor.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息airplanes、increasingly、means of transportation和professor。文中论及航空运输的相关内容出现在B段。该段提到，卡萨达说，21世纪将日益成为一个航空世纪，因为全球正逐渐通过航空联系在一起。而A段提到约翰·卡萨达是北卡罗来纳大学商学教授。由此可知，这位教授认为，飞机将逐渐成为主要的交通工具。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中airplanes对应原文中的aviation和air，means of transportation对应原文中的connected by，而increasingly为原词复现，故答案为B。
Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息Songdo、has ended up、different和supposed to be。文中论及松岛现在情况的相关内容出现在E段。该段提到，这座城市理应成为全球企业的一个中心，拥有来自世界各地的员工，但事实并非如此。由此可知，现在的松岛和原来设想的不太一样，题干是对原文的同义转述，其中has ended up对应原文中的has turned out，diferent对应原文中的not，Songdo和supposed to be为原词复现，故答案为E。
Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息complain、boredom和in the workplace。文中论及在松岛工作的人对其评价的相关内容出现在H段。该段提到，对一些居民来说，松岛很空虚，一位在松岛工作的女性说，工作日时，自己就像是在监狱里，这就是他们在工作时对松岛的称呼。由此可知，在松岛工作的人觉得他们工作的地方很无聊。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中some of the people对应原文中的some of theresidents，boredom对应原文中的hollow，而in the workplace为原词复现，故答案为H。
A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息business professor、a future city、have easy access to和international transportation。文中论及商学教授、未来城市和国际交通的相关内容出现在A段。该段提到，未来完美城市的一个愿景就是：城市可以提供便捷的航空旅行。紧接着又提到，北卡罗来纳大学商学教授约翰·卡萨达在其出版的《航空大都市——我们未来的生活方式》一书中说，未来的城市应该有意地建在机场周围或附近。由此可知，这位商学教授认为，一座未来的城市应该有便捷的国际交通。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中a future city对应原文中的city of the future，have easy access to对应原文中的offers easy access to，international transportation对应原文中的air travel，而business professor是原词复现，故答案为A。
According to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息urban design、foresee和in the future。文中论及城市设计者预见未来的相关内容出现在J段。该段提到，在麻省理工学院教授城市设计的布伦特·瑞安说，松岛证明了一个普遍的原则：当谈到城市——或者其他任何东西时——很难预测未来。由此可知，城市的设计者很难预见未来会发生什么。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中foresee对应原文中的predict，而urban design和future为原词复现，故答案为J。
Park Yeon So. Who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connection with the city.
注意抓住题干中的关键信息Park Yeon Soo、envisioned、Songdo和parental。文中论及朴延洙与松岛之间联系的相关内容出现在C段。该段提到，朴延洙早在1986年就构想了这座未来的城市，他把松岛看作自己的“婴儿”。由此可知，朴延洙觉得自己和松岛之间有一种亲子联系。题干是对原文的同义转述，其中envisioned对应原文中的conceived，feels a parental connection with the city对应原文中的considers Songdo his baby，Park Yeon Soo为原词复现，故答案为C。