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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.
The garden city was largely the invention of the British social visionary Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After emigrating 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 pre-skyscraper days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”, almost certainly the source of Howard's name for his proposed towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his concept in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were circulating at the time, but creating a unique combination of proposals.
The nineteenth-century slum city was in many ways a horrific place; but it offered economic and social opportunities, lights and crowds. At the same time, the British countryside - now too often seen in a sentimental glow - was in fact equally unprepossessing: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor adequate 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 establish a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the countryside, far enough from existing cities to ensure that the land was bought at the bottom price. They should get agreement from leading industrialists to move their factories there from the congested cities; their workers would move too, and would build their own houses.
Garden cities would follow the same basic blueprint, with a high proportion of green spaces, together with a central public open space, radial avenues, and peripheral industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of permanent green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms, but institutions like reformatories and convalescent homes, that could benefit from a rural location. As more and more people moved out, 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 range 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.
Which best serves as the title for the passage?
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.
The garden city was largely the invention of the British social visionary Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After emigrating 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 pre-skyscraper days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”, almost certainly the source of Howard's name for his proposed towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his concept in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were circulating at the time, but creating a unique combination of proposals.
The nineteenth-century slum city was in many ways a horrific place; but it offered economic and social opportunities, lights and crowds. At the same time, the British countryside - now too often seen in a sentimental glow - was in fact equally unprepossessing: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor adequate 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 establish a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the countryside, far enough from existing cities to ensure that the land was bought at the bottom price. They should get agreement from leading industrialists to move their factories there from the congested cities; their workers would move too, and would build their own houses.
Garden cities would follow the same basic blueprint, with a high proportion of green spaces, together with a central public open space, radial avenues, and peripheral industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of permanent green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms, but institutions like reformatories and convalescent homes, that could benefit from a rural location. As more and more people moved out, 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 range 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.
Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. Garden City Movement
B. The Invention of the Garden City
C. City and Countryside?
D. A new city in Chicago
Trả lời:
Đáp án B
Theo thông tin đoạn văn cung cấp, ta có:
- The garden city was largely the invention of the British social visionary Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928).
- Howard developed his concept in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were circulating at the time, but creating a unique combination of proposals.
- After emigrating 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.
- Howard's idea was that a group of people should establish a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the countryside, far enough from existing cities to ensure that the land was bought at the bottom price.
- Thus, over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide range 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.
Dịch nghĩa:
“Thành phố vườn phần lớn là phát minh của nhà thị kiến xã hội người Anh Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). Sau khi di cư từ Anh sang Mỹ, và một nỗ lực không thành công để kiếm sống bằng nghề nông, ông chuyển đến Chicago, nơi ông chứng kiến việc tái thiết thành phố sau trận hỏa hoạn thảm khốc năm 1871. Trong những ngày trước khi có các tòa nhà chọc trời, nó được mệnh danh là “Thành phố Vườn”, gần như chắc chắn là nguồn gốc của cái tên Howard dành cho các thị trấn đề xuất của mình. Trở về London, Howard đã phát triển ý tưởng của mình vào những năm 1880 và 1890, dựa trên những ý tưởng đang lưu hành vào thời điểm đó, nhưng tạo ra một sự kết hợp độc đáo giữa các đề xuất.
Thành phố ổ chuột thế kỷ 19 theo nhiều cách là một nơi kinh hoàng; nhưng nó mang lại cơ hội kinh tế và xã hội, ánh sáng và đám đông. Đồng thời, vùng nông thôn nước Anh - nay thường được nhìn dưới ánh sáng tình cảm - thực tế cũng không kém phần khó chịu: mặc dù hứa hẹn không khí trong lành và thiên nhiên, nhưng nó lại chịu cảnh suy thoái nông nghiệp và không cung cấp đủ công việc và tiền lương, cũng như đời sống xã hội đầy đủ. Ý tưởng của Howard là kết hợp những điều tốt nhất của thị trấn và nông thôn trong một loại khu định cư mới, thành phố vườn. Ý tưởng của Howard là một nhóm người nên thành lập một công ty, vay tiền để xây dựng một thành phố vườn ở vùng nông thôn, đủ xa các thành phố hiện có để đảm bảo rằng đất được mua với giá rẻ nhất. Họ nên được sự đồng ý của các nhà công nghiệp hàng đầu để chuyển nhà máy của họ từ các thành phố đông đúc đến đó; công nhân của họ cũng sẽ chuyển đến và tự xây nhà.
Các thành phố vườn sẽ tuân theo cùng một bản thiết kế cơ bản, với tỷ lệ cao các không gian xanh, cùng với một không gian mở công cộng trung tâm, các đại lộ xuyên tâm và các ngành công nghiệp ngoại vi. Chúng sẽ được bao quanh bởi một khu vực vành đai xanh rộng lớn hơn nhiều, cũng do công ty sở hữu, không chỉ chứa các trang trại, mà còn các cơ sở như trại cải tạo và nhà dưỡng lão, có thể được hưởng lợi từ vị trí nông thôn. Khi ngày càng có nhiều người di chuyển ra ngoài, thành phố vườn sẽ đạt đến giới hạn theo kế hoạch - Howard gợi ý 32.000 người; sau đó, một cái khác sẽ được bắt đầu cách đó một khoảng ngắn. Vì vậy, theo thời gian, sẽ phát triển một bộ sưu tập nhà được quy hoạch rộng lớn, mở rộng gần như không giới hạn; trong đó, mỗi thành phố vườn sẽ cung cấp một loạt các công việc và dịch vụ, nhưng mỗi thành phố cũng sẽ được kết nối với nhau bằng một hệ thống giao thông nhanh, do đó mang lại tất cả các cơ hội kinh tế và xã hội của một thành phố lớn.
Tiêu đề phù hợp nhất cho đoạn văn là gì?
A. Phong trào Thành phố Vườn
B. Phát minh ra Thành phố Vườn
C. Thành phố và Nông thôn?
D. Một thành phố mới ở Chicago
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