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You may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and have dreams. One dream many share is that Americans will g

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问题     You may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and have dreams. One dream many share is that Americans will give up their love affair with suburban sprawl and will rediscover denser, more environmentally friendly, less auto-dependent ways of living.
    Those dreams have been aroused over the past few months. The economic crisis has devastated the fast-growing developments on the far suburban fringe. Americans now taste the bitter fruit of their overconsumption.
    The time has finally come, some writers are predicting, when Americans will finally repent. They’ 11 move back 10 the urban core. They will ride more bicycles, have smaller homes and tinier fridges and rediscover the joys of dense community— and maybe even superior beer.
    America will, in short, finally begin to look a little more like Amsterdam.
    Well, Amsterdam is a wonderful city, but Americans never seem to want to live there. And even now, in this moment of chastening pain, they don’t seem to want the Dutch option.
    The Pew Research Center just finished a study about where Americans would like to live and what sort of lifestyle they would like to have. The first thing they found is that even in dark times, Americans are still looking over the next horizon. Nearly half of those surveyed said they would rather live in a different type of community from the one they are living in at present.
    If you jumble together the five most popular American metro areas—Denver, San Diego, Seattle, Orlando and Tampa—you get an image of the American Dream circa 2009. These are places where you can imagine yourself with a stuffed garage—filled with skis, kayaks, soccer equipment, hiking boots and boating equipment. These are places you can imagine yourself leading an active outdoor lifestyle.
    They offer the dream, so characteristic on this continent, of having it all: the machine and the garden. The wide-open space and the casual wardrobes.
    The folks at Pew asked one other interesting question: Would you rather live in a community with a McDonald’s or a Starbucks? McDonald’s won, of course, but by a surprisingly small margin: 43 percent to 35 percent. And that, too, captures the incorrigible nature of American culture, a culture slowly refining itself through espresso but still in love with the drive-thru.
    The results may not satisfy those who dream of Holland, but there’s one other impressive result from the Pew survey. Americans may be gloomy and afraid, but they still have a clear vision of the good life. That’s one commodity never in short supply.
It can be inferred from the Pew study that Americans ______.
选项 A、feel optimistic about the outlook of economy
B、know clearly what a good life means to them
C、are always in pursuit of higher quality of life
D、would rather have McDonald’s than Starbucks
答案C
解析 根据第六段中的“The first thing they found is that even in dark times，Americans are stilllooking over the next horizon”和第十段中的“Americans may be gloomy and afraid，but they still havea clear vision of the good life．That’s one commodity never in short supply”上下文，C应为答案。
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