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Visiting Disney World without your children is risky. What if they find out? Your happy home will become an inferno of tantrums
Visiting Disney World without your children is risky. What if they find out? Your happy home will become an inferno of tantrums
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2018-06-06
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问题
Visiting Disney World without your children is risky. What if they find out? Your happy home will become an inferno of tantrums and broken crockery. Nonetheless, gambling that five-year-olds do not read The Economist closely, your correspondent went to Orlando, strictly for research, on a warm day in January.
The park is overwhelming. The queue for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride is nearly an hour long, according to the helpful warning sign at the entrance. The yowl of the Yeti echoes from the newly completed Mount Everest. The crowds throng as densely as pilgrims in Mecca, only they do it all year round and in brighter shirts. People seem to like the place.
Walt Disney could have built his biggest theme park anywhere. He chose Florida. The weather is balmy, and when it gets too hot there are lots of pools to cool off in, says Meg Crofton, Walt Dis ney World’s CEO. Florida also offers plenty of space to expand. Disney World, which was first carved out of wild woodland in 1971, has swollen to four parks covering 40 square miles (104 sq km) and employing 60,000 "cast members". Contrary to the stereotype of rapid churn in the serv ice sector, the average full-time employee sticks around for nine years.
Florida’s business climate is sunny, too. The Milken Institute, a think-tank in California, compiles an index of "best-performing cities" in America, a composite measure of such things as job creation, wage growth and whether businesses are thriving. In the most recent index, six of the top ten metropolitan areas are in Florida. (Orlando-Kissimmee is sixth.) And 18 of the top 30 are in the South.
For a long time the
South’s weather got in the way of its development
. Richard Pillsbury, a ge ography professor at Georgia State University, describes traditional life in the lowland South, a re gion stretching from northern Virginia down to the Gulf coast of Texas: "Smallish hardscrabble farms almost lost in the white heat of a sweltering summer sun as the owners and their help fought swarms of mosquitoes to plant, cultivate and harvest the meagre cotton crop for market."
Then came air-conditioning. As it spread after the second world war, the South became suddenly more comfortable to live and work in. From the 1940s until the 1980s the region boomed. In his book "Old South, New South", Gavin Wright lists four reasons why. Federal defence spending stimulated growth. Sunshine attracted skilled professionals. The South, having developed so little in the past, was a "clean slate", without strong labour unions, entrenched bureaucracies, restrictive laws or outdated machinery. Lastly, given how much catching up the South had to do, the potential returns were higher than in the north.
Southerners have prospered in part by playing to their traditional strengths. The fame of southern hospitality has
bolstered
the region’s hotel chains, such as Holiday Inn. That of southern cuisine helps local restaurants, such as Waffle House, Cracker Barrel and KFC. Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has kept costs low by refusing to recognise unions. And Coca-Cola owes at least some of its success to its southern origins.
When mentioning "the South’s weather got in the way of its development" (Line 1, Para. 5) , the author is talking about ______.
选项
A、the reason why Walt Disney chose Florida
B、the reason why air-conditioning spread in the South
C、the South’s weather obstructed the progress of development
D、the key factor to the success of the South
答案
C
解析
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