题目内容
阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在正确选项上画勾。
My father's reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City was immediate and definite: “You won't catch me putting my money in there!” he declared. “Not in that glass box!”
Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture (建筑) is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.
In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity (实物) that could be carried, or stolen. So, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a building's design made it appear impenetrable (无法穿透的) the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol dwelt in the popular attitude toward money.
But that attitude toward money has of course changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. A deficit (赤字) economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as a product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a service
a service in which the most valuable element is the creativity necessary for the generation of greater wealth. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are watching the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank.
Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture boasts (吹嘘) of its imaginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human assertion (人们的说法) begins.
1．The main idea of this passage is that ________.
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A．money is not as valuable as it might have been in the past
B．the architectural style of the older bank is superior to that of the modern bank
C．changes have taken place in both the appearance and the concept of banks
D．prejudice makes the older generation think that the modern bank is unreliable
2．What are the attitudes of the older generation and the younger generation toward money?
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A．The former thinks more of it than the latter.
B．The younger generation values money more than the older generation.
C．Both generations rely on the imaginative power of bankers to make money whatever the bank might look like.
D．The former regards it as a real commodity while the latter considers it to be a means to produce more money.
3．The word “tangible” refers to something ________.
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4．It can be inferred from the passage that the author's attitude towards the new trend in banking is ________.
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