题目内容
England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where
he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed "the
Garden City", almost certainly the source of Howard's name for his later building plan of towns. Returning
to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the
time, but creating a unique combination of designs.
The nineteenth-century poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered
economic and social opportunities. At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive:
though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression (萧条) and it offered neither
enough work and wages, nor much social life. Howard's idea was to combine the best of town and country
in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard's idea was that a group of people should set up a
company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside; far enough from existing
cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price.
Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries. They
would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely
farms but also some industrial institutions. As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach
its planned limit-Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away. Thus,
over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each
garden city would offer a wide rang of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by
a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city.
B. Through the combination of different ideas.
C. By taking other people's advice.
D. By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago.
B. making comments on
C. giving an explanation of
D. giving a description of
B. in the countryside where the land was cheap
C. in the countryside where agriculture was developed
D. near cities where employment opportunities already existed
B. Each one would continue to become larger
C. People would live and work in the same place
D. Each one would contain a certain type of business
B. The Invention of the Garden City
C. A New City in Chicago
D. A Famous Garden City in England
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