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Floors wreathed in steam, a maze of pipes glowing red, uncomfortable temperatures, aged graffiti, china bowls, the wrong shape a

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问题     Floors wreathed in steam, a maze of pipes glowing red, uncomfortable temperatures, aged graffiti, china bowls, the wrong shape and size doors. This isn’t a grimy version of Wonderland—it’s an abandoned building in New York City, and a favorite playground for young-adult "urban explorers" , who climb through the building’s broken walls and decaying halls as a way to connect with the city.
    Urban exploration is not new—Dadaists including Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Francis Picabia, and Tristan Tzara led secret tours of the abandoned church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre in Paris as early as 1921, and lone New Yorkers have been exploring empty subway tunnels for decades. But in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, several more organized groups were founded.
    The idea of young adults experiencing the city a little differently isn’t isolated to just urban exploration. AntiBoredom now runs alternate-reality games(ARGs)in multiple cities throughout the world, including Flashback, an exploratory alternate-history game funded by the American History and Civics Initiative. Improv Everywhere made street tricks famous in 2001; now the Urban Pranksters network lists 1,401 derivatives of Improv Everywhere in cities around the world, and hundreds more not associated with the New York pranksters.
    But why are young adults rushing to claim the city anyway—especially in such playful(and potentially illegal)ways? One suggestion is that they’re reacting to the culture of fear that pushed so many boomers—and their young children—into the suburbs in the 70s’ and 80s’. " It gives people a reason to enjoy the outdoors and challenges them to shed their fears about the ’city’," says Schmittling. "There’s also a huge part of it that includes awareness that the city is a public place, that it’s not foreign, and that we are allowed to be in it and use it however we want. " Oli Mould, an academic from England, agrees. "People explore urban areas in order to go beyond what city ’officialdom’ prescribes," he says.
    Moreover, quite a few of these city lovers claim they’re doing what they do to prove a larger point; that even in cities slandered as bastions of hypercapitalism, it’s possible to have fun, experience culture, and thrive without earning a huge income. "The capitalist city builds con-sumerist environments that are intended for people to act in certain ways and in certain places," says Mould. By exploring, he says, "people are expanding the functionality of cities and reclaiming public space. " Certainly, a common quality of every urban-exploring troupe, street game, or ARG is that it doesn’t cost money to join or to watch. And it would be against the ethos of an alternate-reality or street game to charge a fee. " It’s important that it remains free to take part in, because this is an event that we want to be open to everyone," says Thomas Lotze, one of the co-founders of Survive DC. "If we restricted it just to people who were willing and able to pay, it would change the mission and commoditize it. "
Which of the following is true about urban exploration?
选项 A、It’s only fit to the lonely person.
B、People have to do it secretly.
C、It mainly focused on desolate places at first.
D、The New Yorkers learned it from the French.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。由题干关键词urban exploration定位至第二段首句。该句提及，城市探险并不是新事物，早在1921年就有人组织了对巴黎被遗弃的圣居里安教堂的秘密旅行，而且孤独的纽约人探索空置的地铁隧道也已有几十年了，由此可推知，早期的探索集中于废弃的场所，故答案为[C]。第二段首句虽然提及孤独的纽约人探索空置的地铁隧道也已有几十年了，但是并非此运动只属于孤独的人，故排除[A]；第二段首句提及的对巴黎被遗弃的圣居里安教堂的秘密旅行只是个例，[B]“必须秘密地进行”的含义绝对化，故排除；第二段首句只是分别列举了此类活动的两个事例，两者之间不存在传承关系，故排除[D]。
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