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Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own

A) Getting around a city is one thing — and then there’s the matter of getting from one city to another. One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.

In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses “rapid, long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.”

B) “The 18th century really was a waterborne (水運的) century, the 19th century a rail century. the 20th century a highway, car, truck century一and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,” Kasarda says. Songdo, a city built from scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasarda’s prime examples. It has existed for just a few years.“ From the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,”says Kasada. “The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District. And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport.”

C) Songdo is a stone’s throw from South Korea’s Incheon Airport, its main international hub (樞紐). But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the future. Just building a place as an “international business district” doesn’t mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived (構想) this city of the future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. “I am a visionary,” he says. Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park’s baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo. It’s about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There’s a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.

D) Chances are you’ve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea. “Gangnam Style” refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in Songdo.“I don’t know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo,” says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London’s Bartlett School of Planning, “Part of the reason to shoot there is that it’s new and nice.”

E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world. But hat’s not how it has turned out. Songdo’s reputation is as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality is more complicated. A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the center of the main road, there’s a long line of flags of the world. On the corner, there’s a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven--all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.

F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers -- even in the middle of the day. when it’s 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the schools are great. And that’s the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city 一more popular as a residential area than a business one. It’s not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined. “It’s a great place to live. And it’s becoming a great place to work,” says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company’s offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats. Shimmering (閃爍的)glass towers line the canal’s edge.

G) “What’s happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here,” he says. “There needs to be strong economic incentives.” The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park. It doesn’t feel all that futuristic. There’s a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings are environmentally friendly. Everybody’s television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.

H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents, Songdo feels hollow. “I’m, like, in prison for weekdays. That’s what we call it in the workplace,” says a woman in her 20s. She doesn’t want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job. She goes back to Seoul every weekend. “I say I’m prison-breaking on Friday nights.” But she has to make the prison break in her own car. There’s no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away.

I) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated. too. Park says he built South Korea a luxury vehicle, “like Mercedes or BMW. It’s a good car now. But we’re waiting for a good driver to accelerate.”

But there are lots of other good cars out there, too. The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies

J) Songdo’s backers contend that it’s still early, and business space is filling up—about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied. Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle. “There have been a lot of utopian (烏托邦的) cities in history. And the reason we don’t know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely.” In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

36. Songdo’s popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.

37. The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.

38. A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.

39. Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.

40. Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a professor.

41. Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.

42. Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.

43. A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.

44. Acording to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.

45. Park Yeon So. Who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connection with the city.

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【參考答案】

36. [F] 題干：Songdo’s popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.

37. [I] 題干：The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.

38. [D] 題干：A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.

39. [G] 題干：Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.

40. [B] 題干：Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a professor.

41. [E] 題干：Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.

42. [H] 題干：Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.

43. [A] 題干：A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.

44. [J] 題干：According to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.

45. [C] 題干：Park Yeon So. who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connection with the city.

【答案解析】

36. 根據(jù)題干中的信息確定題干信息詞：Songdo’s popularity、quality of life、business，且根據(jù)題干句意可確定肯定品質生活，否定商業(yè)吸引力，因此，利用題干已給信息回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)F段中Songdo has become a popular Korean city--more popular as a residential area than a business one.與該題干屬于同義替換，故選擇F選項。

37. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞：The man who conceives Songdo、disappointed、develop expectations，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)I段中第一句話The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated too.和最后一句中的The world is dotted with futuristic與該題干屬于同義替換，題干中的conceive與段落中的imagine同義復現(xiàn)，故本題選擇I選項。

38. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞：A scene、popular South Korean music video、Songdo，尤其是核心關鍵詞“music video”，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)D段中第二句話Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come out of South Korea.以及第五句話中There was a scene in a subway station. That was actually Songdo. 與本題題干為同義替換，故本題選擇D選項。

39. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞：Songdo、financial stimulus、 businesses，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)G段中第一句話 “missed the mark is for companies to locate here; needs to be strong economic incentives”與本題為同義替換，故選擇G選項。

40. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞：Airplanes、contact researchers 、chief means of transportation、a professor，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)B段中The 21 century will increasingly be an aviation century as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air .以及Kasada says與本題為同義替換，故選擇B選項。

41. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞：Songdo、different 、it was supposed to be，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)E段中第一句與第二句與本題為同義替換，故選擇E選項。

42. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞：Some of the people 、complain about 、boredom、a workplace，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)H段中第二句和第三句“some of the residents; in the workplace; in prison for weekdays”與本題為同義替換，故選擇H選項。

43. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞：A business professor 、a future city、international transportation，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)A段中第2句至第4句 “easy access to air travel; business professor; future cities”與本題為同義替換，故選擇A選項。

44. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞an urban design professor、difficult、city designers、 foresee，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)J段中第2句與第4句與本題為同義替換，故選擇J選項。

45. 根據(jù)題干中的內容確定題干信息詞Park Yeon So.、 parental connection，回文快速掃讀文章，發(fā)現(xiàn)C段中第4句與第5句 Park Yeon Soo conceived this city of the future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby與本題為同義替換，故選擇C選項。

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