I. Structure: organize logically the following descriptions and put them into the passage. 12%
        Years earlier he had chosen the site for its natural features, for its lofty oaks and shagbark hickories, for thedappled green and gentle slope of Wellington Hill. ___(1)___ ___(2)___ But now he was one of them, and the effecton him was anything but tranquil.        Near the end of a long life otherwise steeped in serendipitous good luck and brilliant achievement, FrederickLaw Olmsted—maker of our nation’s first great urban parks and founding father of landscape architecture inAmerica—succumbed to a senile dementia so severe it demanded his confinement in this institution he had intendedfor others a generation before. ___(3)___ ___(4)___ The name had no relevance to his prognosis. ___(5)___        How bitterly in his bouts of paranoia Olmsted must have scorned the memory of a handful of other clientswho failed to carry out his plans, confound them! ___(6)___ ___(7)___ ___(8)___ (AB) The year was 1898; the place, Belmont, Massachusetts, not far from Boston. (AC) Or were there moments at Belmont when a fading mind might have recalled the prouder legacies of a giftedcareer? (AD) No forgetting some of the other designs his genius had wrought: of campuses, and great estates, cemeteries andarboretums, the serene grounds of the United States Capitol, the grand esplanades of the World’s ColumbianExposition at Chicago in 1893, the nation’s first parkway (in New Nork), one of the first planned suburbs withcurvilinear streets (Riversides, Illinois), the reports demanding that Yosemite Valley and Niagrara Falls be savedfrom the spoilers at a period in our history when commercial vandalism was even more in vogue than it is today. (AE) Accompanied by a nurse or a family member, he strolled the grounds, his gift for observation not yet so dulledthat he failed to note certain deviation from his original concept. “They didn’t carry out my plans, he complainedto his family. Confound them!” (BC) There, asylum staff watched over Olmsted among a cluster of cottages, one called Hope. (BD) Surely he could not forget the parks that had brought light and air and community to the crowded poor of Bostonand Buffalo and Louisville and New York, among a score of cities. (BE) He believed his plan might offer a measure of tranquility to the MacLean Hospital’s mental patients. (CD) These were his signature touches: a palette of light and shadow, the subtle layering of textures, a pastoralcenterpiece edged with the leafy mysteries of the picturesque.
【題組】1.