首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
公务员
My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year the city put a chain
My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year the city put a chain
admin
2011-02-02
31
问题
My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year the city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing (用推土机推平) the trees and grass to make ways for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, "Why don’t they just leave it alone?"
Looking back, I think what sentenced the park to oblivion (被遗忘) was the drought (旱灾) we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the trees, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed.
There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. With- in a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the park trees, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the park swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.
As the drought lasted into the fall, the park got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The park had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore.
The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to "redevelop" certain worn-out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.
The chain-link fencing and the bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direc- tion. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes I wonder, though, what changes another drought would make in the way things are today.
According to the writer, what eventually brought about the disappearance of the park?
选项
A、The drought.
B、The crime.
C、The beggars and the rubbish.
D、The decisions of the city.
答案
D
解析
由倒数第二段的最后一句可知,市政府决定拆除这个公园,卖掉地皮,让别人在上面盖公寓。故让公园消失的原因是政府的决定。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DB6q777K
本试题收录于:
中学英语题库教师公开招聘分类
0
中学英语
教师公开招聘
相关试题推荐
在测定电源电动势和内阻的实验中,实验室仅提供下列实验器材:A.干电池两节,每节电动势约为1.5V,内阻约几欧姆B.直流电压表V1、V2,量程均为0~3V,内阻约为3kΩC.电流表,量程0.6A,内阻小于1ΩD.定值电阻R0,阻值为5ΩE.滑动变阻
如图所示,a是静止在地球赤道地面上的一个物体,b是地球同步卫星,c是与赤道共面的地球卫星。对于a物体和b、c两颗卫星的运动情况,下列说法正确的是()。
数学教学评价的()功能是指通过教学评价返回数学教学过程中有关的信息,并根据返回的信息对教与学进行调控,使之达到预期目标的功效和能力.
波利亚提出的“怎样解题”表,可以认为是早期的问题解决教学模式.它包括四个步骤:__________、__________、实现计划、回顾.
Duringthesummerholiday,IthinkIshoulddosomething【M1】______meaningfulinsteadtouring.SoIgotajo
Theevidenceforharmonymaynotbeobviousinsomefamilies.Butitseemsthatfouroutoffiveyoungpeoplenowgetonwithth
Fromchildhoodtooldage,wealluselanguageasameansofbroadeningourknowledgeofourselvesandtheworldaboutus.When
—HowaboutyourtriptoHainan?—Itcouldn’thavebeen______.SometimesIwentswimminginthesea;sometimesIlayonthesa
TwohoursfromthetallbuildingsofManhattanandPhiladelphialivesomeoftheworld’slargestblackbears.Theyareinnorthe
—I’mgoingonatriptoHainanaftertheexam.—Really?____!
随机试题
肝硬化的主要病理变化是
系统总结了汉代以前我国药学发展的成就,为本草学发展奠定基础的是我国历史上第一部官修药典性本草是
沥青路面的施工中,沥青混凝土半幅施工不能采用热接缝时,应当采用措施有()。
下列()属于特殊情况的权属登记。
卡特尔人格特质理论的主要贡献在于提出了()。
法院调解就是指在人民法院审判人员主持下,双方当事人自愿就民事权益争议平等协商,达成协议,从而解决纠纷所进行的活动。根据以上定义,下列属于法院调解的是()。
求微分方程y"一y=4cosx+ex的通解.
"MoneyMattersonCampus"isarecentlyreleasedstudyonfinancialliteracyamongyoungadults.Itsupportsprovidingstudents
Helikesfinding______withothers,whichmakesthemveryangry.
Therewasaknockatthedoor.Itwasthesecondtimesomeone______methatevening.
最新回复
(
0
)