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Just east of downtown Irvine, in southern California, a pastoral landscape is under construction. Little by little, a former mil
Just east of downtown Irvine, in southern California, a pastoral landscape is under construction. Little by little, a former mil
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2015-06-24
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Just east of downtown Irvine, in southern California, a pastoral landscape is under construction. Little by little, a former military airport is being dismantled, to be replaced by grass, trees and a canyon 70 feet (21 meters) deep. When it is finished, Orange County’s Great Park will cover 1,350 acres (550 hectares), more than one-and-a-half times as much as Central Park in New York.Thebiggest landscaped municipal park to be built in more than a century, it reveals much about how American attitudes to open space have changed.
Urban parks are back in fashion. In Denver, an 80-acre park opened in September on the site of another disused airport. New York plans to build a huge park on top of the Fresh Kills landfill in Stat-en Island. Innumerable town squares and pocket parks have been created or beautified, even in places like Detroit. City planners, who once viewed parks as financial drains and nests of crime, now see them as magnets for tourists and creative types.
The great parks that were built in the second half of the 19th century were intended to counteract the ill effects of city living, and so are the new ones. But the perceived ills have changed. Frederick Olmsted, who designed Central Park and many others, wanted to provide people with a break from their tough, dirty jobs. Ken Smith, the Great Park’s architect, reckons the residents of Orange County are quite idle enough. What they need is exercise: hence the park’s proposed 21 football fields and 12 baseball fields, together with some exhausting-looking walks.
Another difference is that parks are now expected to function like natural ecosystems as well as looking like them. The Great Park will use recycled water in its lake (older parks often used mains water). The runways will be dismantled and turned into roads and a memorial In a nod to the local-food movement, the park will include land for farming. Even the car park will be situated in an orange orchard.
Most striking of all is the new parks’ deference to history. America’s great 19th-century landscape architects saw the land as a blank slate. An entire village was pulled down to build Central Park. By contrast, Denver’s park preserves a control tower, and the Great Park will convert an air-dock into a museum and retain the outline of a runway. A river diverted underground by the marines will be restored to its former course. The preservation lobby is stronger these days. And besides, says Yehudi Gaffen, a partner in the Great Park project, "Southern California has so little history that we should try to keep some of it."
The orange orchard is mentioned in order to tell that the Great Park is likely to
选项
A、be equipped with large car parking areas.
B、maintain the original structure of the old airport.
C、take the appearance and function of a natural ecosystem.
D、deal with any problem of pollution.
答案
C
解析
例证细节题。根据orange orchard和Great Park定位到第四段。该段首句即指出“现在人们期望公园看起来像自然生态系统,并起到自然生态系统的作用”,接下来则给出几个相关例子,C项符合文意。原文最后只提到“停车场甚至会坐落在桔树林里”,而并非说“将配备大型停车场”,故A项与原意不符;文中说到“飞机跑道将被拆除”,很明显B项说到的“保留旧飞机场的结构”不符合文意;D项中的any夸大了the GreatPark的作用。
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