四六级考试

【单选题】We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War Ⅱ as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less truly could be more.During theDepression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
Economic condition was only one stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with theBauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War Ⅱ and took up posts atAmerican architecture schools. These designers, including Walter Gropius and MarcelBreuer, came to exert enormous influence on the course ofAmerican architecture, but none more so than Mies.
Mies’s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly deployed, has more impact than a lot.Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modem architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood (胶合板)—materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future. Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.
The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built onChicago’s Lake ShoreDrive, for example, were smaller—two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city’s GoldCoast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings’ details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.
The trend toward "less" was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the sprawling two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
The "Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modem architects byCalifomiaArts ＆Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the "less is more" trenD、Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In hisCase Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—fewAmerican families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shareD、
What can be inferred aboutBauhaus from the third paragraph
A、It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
B、It had a great influence uponAmerican architecture.
C、Its designing concept was affected by World War Ⅱ.
D、MostAmerican architects used to be associated with it.
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[解析] 题干已经将本题出处定位到第3段。该段末句提到，这些设计师……对美国的建筑教程产生了巨大影响。其中的“这些设计师”(These designers)就是指Bauhaus学派的设计师。[B]中的had a great influence upon与该句中的came to exert enormous influence on同义，故为答案。[A]“它是由Mies创建的”是对该段的过度推断。该段末句只是提到美国建筑受Mies的影响最大，但没说明Bauhaus就是由Mies创建的，故排除。[C]“它的设计理念受到二战的影响”的信息在文中未表示出来，故排除。该段末句只是说到Bauhaus学派的设计师对美国的建筑教程产生了巨大影响，并没说明“大部分的美国建筑都通常与之相关”，[D]是对文章信息的过度推测，故排除。 [设题分析] 解释处设题。[解析] 文中Bauhaus后的内容都是对它的解释，找准These designers的指代内容是关键，正确选项是对原文信息的同义转述。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>