首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Collapses this spring at a couple of ancient sites here caused weary archaeologists to warn, yet again, about other imminent cal
Collapses this spring at a couple of ancient sites here caused weary archaeologists to warn, yet again, about other imminent cal
admin
2019-08-26
25
问题
Collapses this spring at a couple of ancient sites here caused weary archaeologists to warn, yet again, about other imminent calamities threatening Rome’s precarious architectural birthright.
Meanwhile, the smart set went crazy when a splendid national museum for contemporary art, Maxxi, opened recently, along with an expansion to the city-run new-art museum, Macro. That was just after Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno, convened a conference for planners and architects to sketch a bid for the 2020 Olympics as an incentive to update Italy’s capital. Contemporary architecture now promises to be the engine and symbol of a new creative identity for Rome that, if development is done right for a change, would complement the city’s glorious past.
"What does Rome want to be when it grows up?" is how Richard Burdett, a planner from London with Italian roots, put the situation the other day. He meant the situation of Rome at a crossroads, struggling ahead, falling behind.
Change is never easy here. When a museum designed by Richard Meier, a glass and marble building to house the Ara Pacis, opened a few years ago, Romans howled. Maxxi, whose style presents a whole other set of problems, has fared much better in terms of public approval, attracting some 74,000 visitors in its first month and accelerating talk by leaders like Mr. Alemanno about Rome in the 21st century.
But it’s one thing for politicians to support a new headline-grabbing museum. The art crowd rolls into town, bestows its blessing, then rolls out. It’s another to take on greater challenges like immigration, transportation and sprawl. Even culture: a nation whose identity and fiscal survival rests on it now devotes 0.21 percent of its state budget, which is about one-fifth of the percentage that France devotes, to theater, film, exhibitions, music and museums, not to mention the upkeep of all those thousands of historical sites for which there is still no master conservation plan.
And there’s nothing close to a thought-out approach to shaping this city’s new identity, either, just a burst of mixed architecture creating facts on the ground and a fresh hunger for something better. The problems facing Rome are not going to be solved by a few big stars designing buildings but by a larger effort to rethink a city that has swiftly grown to 3.7 million inhabitants, almost all of them outside the historic center, where its past is crumbling.
According to the context, "the smart set" (boldfaced in Paragraph 2) refers to_________
选项
A、the planners and architects
B、the weary archaeologists
C、the mayor and his officials
D、the visitors to the museums
答案
A
解析
本题是指代题,要求考生根据上下文判断the smart set的具体指代,即下文中罗马市长开会时召集的各路有识之士。关键点:convened a conference for planners and architects to sketch a bid。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/NUNYFFFM
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Lastyear,whenPresidentGeorgeW.Bushannouncedthatfederalfundscouldbeusedtosupportresearchonhumanembryonicstem
Lastyear,whenPresidentGeorgeW.Bushannouncedthatfederalfundscouldbeusedtosupportresearchonhumanembryonicstem
Lastyear,whenPresidentGeorgeW.Bushannouncedthatfederalfundscouldbeusedtosupportresearchonhumanembryonicstem
Itusedtobesostraightforward.Ateamofresearchersworkingtogetherinthelaboratorywouldsubmittheresultsoftheirres
Wewererunningoutofmoneyandthingswerelooking______.
Theplantoallowthereadingpublictorente-books,muchastheyrentmovies,hasprovedsomuchmorecontentiousthanitspio
Allanimalsmustrest,butdotheyreallysleepasweknowit?Theanswertothisquestionseemsobvious.Ifananimalregularly
Agoodmodernnewspaperisanextraordinarypieceofreading.Itisremarkablefirstforwhatitcontains:therangeofnewsfro
Agoodmodernnewspaperisanextraordinarypieceofreading.Itisremarkablefirstforwhatitcontains:therangeofnewsfro
随机试题
脾主升清的确切内涵是
上唇正中唇红向前下方突出的结节为()
A.真寒假热B.真热假寒C.真实假虚D.真虚假实E.不虚不实热结肠胃,痰食壅积,以致经脉阻滞,气血不能畅达,致倦怠懒言,身体赢瘦,脉象沉细。此为
患者,男,58岁。反复咳嗽、咳痰15年,心悸、气急3年。体检:双肺叩诊呈过清音,呼吸减弱,肺底部有湿啰音,剑突下心尖搏动明显,该处可闻及3/6级收缩期杂音,肺动脉瓣区第二音亢进。该例最可能的诊断为()
A.氮苷B.硫苷C.碳苷D.酯苷E.氰苷水解后可产生氢氰酸的是()。
下列情形中属于效力待定合同的有()。
大学英语等级考试是一种()测验。
对撰写请示应注意的问题表述正确的是()。
是一台Windows主机在命令行模式下执行某个命令时用sniffer捕获到的数据包。请根据图中信息回答下列问题。图中的①和②删除了部分显示信息,其中①处的信息应该是【17】。
She’llgo______anythingherhusbandsaysjustforaquietandpeacefullife.
最新回复
(
0
)