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  3. In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered N

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered N

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问题      In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house, was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the cole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economic and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success, in spite of Hunt’s inviting facade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to young married couple and bachelors.
     The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment building that quickly followed, in the late 1870’s and early 1880’s, was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep--a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings re- quire. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.
     So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout on multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia, finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to build luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.
Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1800’s?
选项 A、Large families needed housing with sufficient space.
B、Apartments were preferable to tenements and cheaper than row houses.
C、The city officials of New York wanted housing that was centrally located.
D、The shape of early apartments could accommodate a variety of interior designs.
答案B
解析 在公寓居住的想法为什么在19世纪晚期很流行了：A大家族需要有足够空间的住房； B公寓比租房更好，而且比排房便宜；C纽约的城市官员想得到在中央坐落的住房；D早期的公寓形状能容纳各种内部设计。第二段最后1句话：It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses。故B是正确选项。
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