Text 3 We tend to think of the decades i

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问题 Text 3 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 could truly be more.During the Depression 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 a 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 the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials 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 on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1，000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.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 spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&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 his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.The postwar American housing style largely reflected the Americans_____A.prosperity and growthB.efficiency and practicalityC.restraint and confidenceD.pride and faithfulness

选项 A.prosperity and growth
B.efficiency and practicality
C.restraint and confidence
D.pride and faithfulness

答案 C

解析细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题，需要根据题干关键词锁定文章的具体信息，从而得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息“The postwar American housing style”定位到第二段最后一句“…Americans had learned to live with less，…positively stylish.”根据这句话可知，战后美国的住房风格反映了美国人的“restraint”和“confidence”，故C项正确。【干扰排除】首段的“a time of prosperity and growth”指的是美国当时的时代背景，并不是指美国人的特征，A项属于偷换概念，故不选。第二段末句“…made small,efficient housing positively stylish.”中“efficient”指的是美国住房风格，故B项错误。文中并没有提及美国人的自豪及忠诚，故D项属于无中生有。

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Text 3 We tend to think of the decades i

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