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1、Loving and Hating New York 练习题答案/answer.1.Olmsted:Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.(1870-1975),American landscape architect.A Harvard graduate(1894),he studied under his father,Fredcrick Law Olmsted,and began practice as landscape architect in 1895.He was landscape architect for the Metropolitan Park System
2、 of Boston,1898-1920;Baltimore Park and Park Commission,1902-1917;member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1929,and again from 1945.He acted in consulting capacity for and designed portions of the parks or other public improvements of many towns and cities and numerous instiuti
3、ons,land subdivisions,and private properties.Among his designs in Washington D.C.were those for Rock Creek and Ana-costia Parks,the Mall,and the White House grounds.He wrote numerous articles and reports on professional subjects.2.Bach.John Sebastian Bach(1685-1750),German composer and organist,one
4、of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western World.He brought poly-phonic baroque music to its culmination,creating masterful and vigorous works in almost every musical form known in his period.Born into a gifted family,Bach was devoted to music from childhood;he was taught by his f
5、ather and later by his brother Johann cristoph.His education was acquired largely through independent studies.Since few of Bachs many works were published in his lifetime,exact dates cannot be fixed for all of them,but most can be placed with some certainty in the periods of his life.At Arnstadt and
6、 Miihlhausen he began a series of organ compositions that culminated in the great works of the Weimar period;the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Mi-nor.At Cothen he concentrated on instrumental compositions,especially keyboard works:the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue;the English Suites;and Book I of the cel
7、ebrated 7he Well-Tempered-Clavier.He also wrote several un-accompainied violin Sonatas and cellosuites,and the Brandenburg Concertos,recognised as the best concertigrossiever composed.As musical director of St Thomas atLeipzig,he composed many of his superb religious compositions,the Christmas Orato
8、rio,the St.lat hew Passion,etc.The principal keyboard works of this period were Book of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the four books of clavier pieces in the Clavier Cibung,which includes:six partitas(1726-1731)the Italian Concerto and the Partita in B minor(1735)and the Goldberg Variations.The bulk
9、 of his work is religious.In addition,he composed an astonising number of instrumental works,many of them designed for the instruction of his numerous pupils.In his instrumental and choral works he perfected the art of polyphony,displaying an unmatched combination of inventiveness and control in his
10、 great,striding fugues.During his lifetime,Bach was better known as an organist than as a composer.For decades after his death his works were neglected,but in the 19th century his genius came to be recognized,particularly by romantic composers such as Mendelssohn and Schumann.Since that time his rep
11、utation has grown steadily.1.N0,his hometown is Seattle,a seaport in west central Washington State on Puget Sound.See paragragh 4.2.These signs show that New York is no longer the leading city in the United States.3.New York no longer begets the styles and sets the trends.It is no longer a paeesette
12、r.4.Other cities have buildings more inspired architecturally.The center of music and sports have also shifted to other cities.As a tourist attraction it is inferior to New Orlcans,San Francisco,Washington or Disneyland.Finally,there are many beter cities to live in than New York.5.The Europeans cal
13、l New York their favorite city because they like its cosmopolitan complexities,its surviving European standards and its alien mixtures.Perhaps some of these are reassured by the international names of jewelers,shoe stores and designer shops.But what most excites Europeans is the citys charged,nervou
14、s atmosphere,its vulgar dynamism.6.Tim writer went to New York because he likes to live there and he could practice the kind of journalism he wanted in that city.7.The young people go to New York to test themselves and to avoid giving in to the most banal and marketable of their talents.In New York
15、they also find the company of many other young people similarly fleeing from the constricting atmosphere of smaller cities.8.New York is still the banking and communications head-quarters for America.The networks news centres,the largest book publishers,the biggest magazines,the ad agencies are all
16、here,appraising and ratifying the films,the plays,the music,the books that others have created.9.Newcomers can find or form their little groups and,though these groups lie close to each other,there is no contact or intercourse between groups.This gives the city its sense of freedom.10.Despite all th
17、e faults of the city,a New Yorker still prefers to live in New York because he prefers the unhealthy hassle and vitany of urban life.What he finds attractive about New York is its rawness,tension,urgency;its bracing competitiveness the rigor of its judgements;and the congested,democratic presence of
18、 so many other New Yorkers,encased in their own worlds.11.It is in fact the first truly international metropolits because here one finds a much wider mixture of nationalities Asians,Africans,Latins and all varieties of Europeans.1.This article is a piece of expository writing.The main theme or thesi
19、s is stated by the title Loving and Hating New York,or more specifically,by the first sentence of the last paragraph:“Loving and hating New York becomes a matter of alternating moods,often in the same day.2.Griffith develops his main thesis by both objective and emotional description of New York and
20、 the life and struggle of New Yorkers.It is very effective.(See the answer to 4.)3.This article is full of American English terms,phrases and constructions.Such as T-shirt,hassle,plush,holdout,comeback,putdown,measure up,expense-account,etc.4.The writer states that he both loves and hates New York,b
21、ut the reader fails to see where or why he hates New York.It is clear that Griffith loves New York and feels exhilarated living there.He may sometimes feel exasperated but this feeling is never strong enough to turn to hate.The writer shows his love for New York with the words such as energy,content
22、ion striving,etc.5.The first five paragraphs act as a general introduction,set-ting forth the present status of New York city in the Unit-ed States and in the eyes of foreigners.The last sentence of paragraph 5 also acts as a transition to the actual de-scriptions of New York city itself:the charged
23、,nervous atmosphere,its vulgar dynamism of the last line of paragraph 5 leads to the energy,contention,and striving in the first line of paragraph 6.6.The topic sentence of paragraph 8 is the first sentence.Nature s pleasures are much qualified in New York.The writer uses many examples to develop th
24、is paragraph and to back up the statement made in the topic sentence.7.In New York,a shrewd understanding or ability to appraise things is appreciated and paid for,and skill and learning by themselves are not considered valuable.8.Free.Students choice.1.Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow
25、 the taste of the American people.2.New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends(styles,fashion)of America.3.Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual performance of Johnny Carson now replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California.4.New York is regaining
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