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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.Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about the Bauhaus?A.It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.B.Its designing concept was affected by World War II.C.Most American architects used to be associated with it.D.It had a great influence upon American architecture.

选项 A.It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
B.Its designing concept was affected by World War II.
C.Most American architects used to be associated with it.
D.It had a great influence upon American architecture.

答案 D

解析推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题，需要对文章第三段的信息进行锁定，从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息“Bauhaus”定位到第三段。该段最后一句“These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.”可知These designers，即Ludwig Mies van der Rohe以及other people associated with the Bauhaus，对美国建筑有很大影响，故D项正确。【干扰排除】第三段第二句中who引导的定语从句只是说Ludwing Mies van der Rohe和Bauhaus有关联而非创建者，故排除A项。与Bauhaus有关联的Ludwig Mies van der Rohe是在二战前移民美国的，但文中并未提及它的设计理念受二战影响，故B项不选。原文中只提到Bauhaus与其他人有关联，但并未说明这些人大部分是美国人，因此C项属于过度推理。

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