問題詳情
1Questions 1-9In 1903 the members of the governing board of the University of Washington. inSeattle. engaged a firm of landscape architects, specialists in the design of outdoorenvironments--OImsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts-to advise them on anLine appropriate layout for the university grounds. The plan impressed the university officials,(5) and in time many of its recommendations were implemented. City officials in Seattle, thelargest city in the northwestern United States, were also impressed, for they employed thesame organization to study Seattle's public park needs. John Olmsted did the investigationand subsequent report on Seattle's parks. He and his brothers believed that parks shouldbe adapted to the local topography, utilize the area's trees and shrubs, and be available to(10) the entire community. They especially emphasized the need for natural, serene settingswhere hurried urban dwellers could periodically escape from the city. The essence of theOlmsted park plan was to develop a continuous driveway, twenty miles long, that wouldtie together a whole series of parks, playgrounds, and parkways. There would be localparks and squares, too, but all of this was meant to supplement the major driveway,(15) which was to remain the unifying factor for the entire system.In November of 1903 the city council of Seattle adopted the Olmsted Report, andit automatically became the master plan for the city's park system. Prior to this report,Seattle's park development was very limited and funding meager. All this changedafter the report. Between 1907 and 1913, city voters approved special funding measures(20) amounting to $4,000,000. With such unparalleled sums at their disposal, with the Olmstedguidelines to follow, and with the added incentive of wanting to have the city at its bestfor the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909, the Parks Board bought aggressively.By 1913 Seattle had 25 parks amounting to 1,400 acres, as well as 400 acres inplaygrounds, pathways, boulevards, and triangles. More lands would be added in the(25) future, but for all practical purposes it was the great land surge of 1907-1913 thatestablished Seattle's park system.
【題組】1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The planned development of Seattle's public park system
(B) The organization of the Seattle city government
(C) The history of the OImsted Brothers architectural firm
(D) The design and building of the University of Washington campus
參考答案
答案：A
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)