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Central Park, emerging from a period of abuse and neglect, remains one of the most popular attractions in New York City, with ha
Central Park, emerging from a period of abuse and neglect, remains one of the most popular attractions in New York City, with ha
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2021-11-04
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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 spring-time 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 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.
According to the passage, before Olmsted and Vaux began their work, the area now occupied by Central Park was______.
选项
A、a romantic place
B、an infertile, marshy space
C、a green and hilly park
D、a baseball field
答案
B
解析
根据第三段中:“The barren swampy tract…as ‘a pestilential spot where miasmic odors taint every breath of air’”可知,这是一片荒凉潮湿的地带,一些人在那里擅自搭建房屋,还有一家用动物骨头熬制胶水的工厂。据当时的报道,那片区域是一个瘟疫肆虐、空气腐臭的地带。因此可以判断,那里以前是一个贫瘠、潮湿而又肮脏的地方。故选B。
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