Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34
Central Park, emerging from a period of abuse and neglect, remains one of the most popular attractions in New York City, with half a million out-of-towners among the more than 3 million people who visit the park yearly. About 15 million individual visits are made each year.
Summer is the season for softball, concerts, and Shakespeare; fall is stunning; winter is wonderful for sledding, skating, and skiing; and springtime is the loveliest of all. It was all planned that way.
About 130 years ago Frederic Law Olmsted and his collaborator Calvert Vaux submitted their landscaping plan for a rectangular parcel two miles north of the town's center. The barren swampy tract, home for squatters and a bone-boiling works that made glue, was reported as “a pestilential spot where miasmic odors taint every breath of air." It took 16 years for workers with pickaxes and shovels to move 5 million cubic feet of earth and rock, and to plant half a million trees and shrubs, making a tribute to nature-a romantic nineteenth-century perception of nature.
What exists today is essentially Olmsted and Vaux's plan. with more trees, buildings, and asphalt. Landscape architects still speak reverently of Olmsted's genius and foresight, and the sensitive visitor can see the effects he sought.
With what subject is the passage mainly concerned?
Giải thích:
Chủ đề chính mà đoạn văn bàn về là gì:
A. Cuộc đời của Olmsted và Vaux
B. Ngành công nghiệp du lịch của New York
C. Những ví dụ về nghệ thuật thể kỉ 19 ở New York
D. Sự phát triển của Central Park
Đoạn văn nói về sự phát triển của Central park từ lúc lên kế hoạch xây dựng (Câu 1 đoạn 3 “About 130 years ago…” đến hiện tại “What exists today is...
Chọn D
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____________they've already made their decision, there's nothing much we can do.
I'm going on business for a week, so I'll be leaving everything ___________
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29
HOW TELEVISION CHANGE THE WORLD
The television has undoubtedly changed society. For a modern person to think about (25) ____________ the world was like without television is actually hard to imagine. The world before the TV was one of little information flowing in to communities throughout the world. All information that people could get was filtered through newspapers often had specific biases that caused them to (26) ___________ the news to whatever their preference was. Although television would follow this to a certain (27) ____________, it was able to hit a widespread audience at the same time. In other words, people literally watched the broadcast at the same time each day, and they began (28) ____________ news as things happened.
A television grew into something that practically every household in industrialized nations had, businesspeople were quick to realize the (29) ____________ television had. They realized there was an enormous amount of money to be made, and therefore they were willing to invest in the technology and infrastructure that made it possible.
The children were full of beans today, looking forward to their field trip.
The Netherlands, with much of its land lying lower than sea level, have a system of dikes and canals for controlling water.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Unfortunately, the injury may keep him out of football ____________. He may never play again.
Peter: “My parents gave me no choice but to study business."
- Danny: “____________”
We arrived at the conference. Then we realized that our reports were still at home.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Most people indulge ____________ harmless fantasies to relieve the boredom of their lives.
Perhaps, the violence was provoked by the fans of the visiting team.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
According to the passage, before Olmsted and Vaux began their work, the area now occupied by Central Park was ____________
Archaeologists think that massive floods could have____________the dinosaurs.