Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to 56.
In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. I n 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 Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s
invitingfaçade, 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 newly married couples and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 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
the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. 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 in 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 building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.
The new housing form discussed in the passage refers to
A. single-family homes
B. apartment buildings
C. row houses
D. hotels
Đáp án B
Hình thức của các ngôi nhà ở mới được thảo luận trong đoạn văn đề cập đến:
A.nhà một thế hệ
B. tòa nhà căn hộ
C.nhà hàng
D. khách sạn
Chỉ có đáp án B là hợp lý.
The word “inviting”in line 7 is closest in meaning to
A. open
B. encouraging
C. attractive
D. asking
Đáp án C
Từ “inviting” ở dòng 7 gần với từ C:”attrative”:có sức hút,hấp dẫn
Why was the Stuyvesant a limited success?
A. The arrangement of the rooms was not convenient.
B. Most people could not afford to live there.
C. There were no shopping areas nearby.
D. It was in a crowded neighborhood.
Đáp án A
Tại sao stuyvesant lại có một thành công hạn chế?
A.sự sắp xếp các phòng không thuận tiện
Thế hiện ở đoạn: But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged
The word “sumptuous”in line 8 is closest in meaning to
A. luxurious
B. unique
C. modern
D. distant
Đáp án A
Từ “ sumptuous” ở dòng 8 gần nghĩa nhất với: :A:”luxurious”: xa xỉ, sang trọng
It can be inferred that the majority of people who lived in New York’s first apartments were
A. highly educated
B. unemployed
C. wealthy
D. young
Đáp án D
Có thể suy ra rằng đa số người dân sống ở những căn hộ đầu tiên ở New York là:
D.trẻ
Thể hiện ở: Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.
It can be inferred that the typical New York building lot of the 1870’s and 1880’s looked MOST like which of the following?
Đáp án D
Có thể suy ra rằng kiểu tòa nhà điển hình của New York có nhiều vào năm 1870 và 1880 nhìn giống nhất cái này sau đây.
Chỉ có thể là đáp án D
It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 1870’s and 1880’s had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:
A. Its room arrangement was not logical.
B. It was rectangular.
C. It was spacious inside.
D. It had limited light.
Đáp án C
Có thể suy ra rằng một tòa nhà căn hộ ở New york vào 1870 và 1880 có tất cả các đặc điểm sau ngoại trừ:
C: Bên trong rộng rãi
(không đúng với nội dung trong bài)
The word “yield”in line 14 is closest in meaning to
A. harvest
B. surrender
C. amount
D. provide
Đáp án D
Từ “yeild” ở dòng 14 = “provide” : cung cấp, cung ứng
Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1800’s?
A. Large families needed housing with sufficient space.
B. Apartmentswere 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.
Đáp án B
Tại sao ý tưởng về sống ở một căn hộ trở nên phổ biến vào năm 1800.?
B. Những căn hộ thích hợp hơn với khu chung cư và rẻ hơn nhà bán thuê lại.
Thể hiện ở câu sau trong bài:
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. (Nó đáp ứng được nhu cầu của một dân số lớn và ngày càng tăng mà muốn một cái gì đó tốt hơn so với khu chung cư nhưng không thể đủ khả năng hoặc không muốn nhà “hàng” )
The author mentions the Dakota and the Ansonia in line 22 because
A. they are examples of large, well-designed apartment buildings
B. their design is similar to that of row houses
C. they were built on a single building lot
D. they are famous hotels
Đáp án A
Tác giả đề cập đến Dakota và Ansonia ở dòng 22 vì:
A. Họ là những ví dụ của các tòa nhà chung cư lớn được thiết kế tốt.
Câu trong đoạn văn:
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 building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area. (Trong những thập kỷ cuối của thế kỷ XIX, nhà chung cư lớn đã bắt đầu nằm rải rác trên phần phát triển của thành phố New York, và những thập kỷ mở đầu của thế kỷ XX, các tòa nhà rộng rãi, chẳng hạn như Dakota và Ansonia cuối cùng đã vượt qua sự giam hãm chặt chẽ của rất nhiều tòa nhà. Từ đó, nó chỉ là một bước nhỏ để xây dựng nhà ở căn hộ cao cấp trên Park Avenue mới được tạo ra, ngay bên cạnh các khu vực mua sắm đại lộ thời trang thứ năm.)