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  3. We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning h

We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning h

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问题     We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
    But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the post war confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
    Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so than Mies.
    Mies’s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impacts than a lot. Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood - materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future. Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.
    The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller - two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet - than those in their older neighbors along the city’s Gold Coast. But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings’ details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.
    The trend toward "less" was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses - usually around 1,200 square feet - than the spreading two-storey ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
    The "Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another home grown influence on the "less is more" trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In this Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life - few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers - but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about the Bauhaus?
选项 A、It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
B、Its designing concept was affected by World War II.
C、Most American architects used to be associated with it.
D、It had a great influence upon American architecture.
答案D
解析 本题信息点是Bauhaus，并且该信息点被限定在第三段。该信息点在第三段首次出现在第二句The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German，the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe，who like other people associated with the Bauhaus，a school of design，emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools，其大意为：“少就是多”是由一位德国建筑师推广，这位建筑师欣赏那些与Bauhaus有关的人，Bauhaus是一所设计学院，这位建筑师在二战之前迁到美国并在美国多所设计学院供职；第三句These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture，but none more so than Mies也包含Bauhaus的信息，大意为：这些设计人员对美国建筑设计道路带来了很大影响，但是影响最大的人当属Mies。再将这两句话表述的内容与四个选项比照，我们发现选项D．It had a great influence upon American architecture符合第三句的内容，为本题答案。
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