江西省弋阳县第一中学2016-2017学年高一12月月考英语试题_高中英语试卷

江西省弋阳县第一中学2016-2017学年高一12月月考英语试题

　　63. The underlined phrase損lay hooky攊n Paragraph 1 probably means________.

　　A. play outdoors

　　B. play truant

　　C. go fishing

　　D. skip work

　　64. What is the purposete of the passage?

　　A. To do an Olympic experiment.

　　B. To cheer up the athletes of the Games.

　　C. To provide an interesting topic about the Games.

　　D. To warn companies of their employees.

　　65. What’s the author’s attitude towards the survey result?

　　A. Subjective

　　B. Objective

　　C. Positive

　　D. Negative

　　The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard(1850~1928). After immigrating from 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.