tailieunhanh - Đề thi thử ĐH môn Anh Văn năm 2013 Đề 10

Tham khảo đề thi - kiểm tra 'đề thi thử đh môn anh văn năm 2013 đề 10', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Sẽ GD T Phó tha KÌ THI KHẢO SÁT CHAT LƯỢNG LỚP 12 LAN I TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN HÙNG VƯƠNG N m hac 2012-2013 M n tiÕng anh. Khèi D Thêĩ gian Ipm bpĩ 90 phót kh ng kó thêĩ gian phat 0 0 cã 6 trang gam 80 c u Mã đề thi 570 Họ và tên thí sinh .Mã đề thi . Read the following passage and mark the letter A B C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. I n 1869 the Stuyvesant considered New York s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris and each understood the economics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt s inviting faẹade the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous single-family homes leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors. The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed in the 1870 s and early 1880 s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement though it could not yield the square well-lighted and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses. So while the city s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in .