問題詳情

II. Cloze (20%)
(A)Frederick Law Olmsted, America’s first landscape architect and co-designer of New York City’s Central Park,was a(n) __21__. __22__ most people see only moments ahead, Olmsted could plant a landscape and know whatit would look like 100 years later. His landscapes remain as __23__ today as when he created them more than acentury ago. During his __24__ career, two places that bear his mark are Biltmore Estate in North Carolina andthe U.S. Capitol Grounds in Washington, D.C.Spread across 8,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Biltmore Estate is a 250-room mountain __25__near Asheville, North Carolina. If the structure seemed immense, the grounds were __26__. Buying up forests andfarmland in every direction, its owner acquired 125,000 acres. Olmsted was then hired to turn them into a propersetting for his home. Olmsted __27__ a series of small pleasure gardens around the structure. He also designedthe 250-acre Deer Park. Most of the remaining land, __28__ 100,000 acres, was planted as timberland. Herecommended that bottomland along the French Broad River, which flows through the property, __29__ used toraise cattle for manure to be spread as fertilizer.From 1874 to 1889, Olmsted supervised the planting of the nearly 60 acres of grounds surrounding the U.S.Capitol Grounds and was responsible for the design of walkways, walls, lights, and so on. He provided spaciouslawns and spectacular open views, keeping the Capitol building itself as the focal point of the grounds. Olmsted’slove of nature is __30__ in the thousands of plants found here. Today, a wide variety of trees thrive on thegrounds. These carefully selected, interesting plants make the Capitol Grounds an arboretum.
21.
(A) visionary
(B) missionary
(C) advocate
(D) entrepreneur

參考答案

答案：A
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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