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An avid Bush supporter who already has 25 shopping malls to his name, Congel
An avid Bush supporter who already has 25 shopping malls to his name, Congel
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2023-12-18
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An avid Bush supporter who already has 25 shopping malls to his name, Congel himself is not a man you would expect to entertain an eccentric clean-energy vision. The project—Destiny U.S.A., a mega-mall—first seized him in 2001, soon after 9/11—and after the project was under way—during a visit to the D-Day beaches in Normandy. "There I was looking at those pure white graves of tens of thousands of kids that died for freedom," Congel reflects, sitting on the veranda of his 6,000-acre farm just outside Syracuse, where he has imported Russian wild boar and other exotic game for hunting. "Today our kids are dying in a war for oil. Petroleum addiction is destroying our country, our economy, our environment."
Several months after returning from Normandy, Congel announced that not a drop of fossil fuel would be used in the making of Destiny. Almost overnight the mission of the project changed. It went from the mall that could save the depressed economy of Syracuse to the mall that could save America by establishing a new model for green commercial development. But will shoppers actually want to travel from far and wide to a little-known city’s eco-friendly mall? And even with the green tax benefits, it is vastly more expensive to power Destiny with renewable sources than with conventional grid energy—so where’s the financial logic?
Here’s where Congel’s schemes to create "monster profits" come in. Intel, Clear Channel, Cisco, Sony and Microsoft are among the brands that Destiny has recruited to supply its retail, entertainment, security and energy technologies. Many suppliers are planning to build local offices that will aid the Syracuse economy, and all have agreed to participate in the on-site development of new technologies that could be tested on the captive audience of mall-goers. (Congel will be a co-owner of the patents on all inventions.) A group of companies hopes to perfect a new wireless radio frequency identification technology to enable customers to purchase items instantly without waiting in line. The Department of Homeland Security and A.D.T., a home-security company, have discussed testing new devices that will track all visitors entering and leaving the mall. [br] From the passage we can see that the mall______
选项
A、is based on a utopian thought of a utopian man.
B、will solely live on the great financial investment from the business giants.
C、is environmantally friendly and technologically advanced.
D、will not get profits in the author’s opinion.
答案
C
解析
A不对,因为从第一段和最后一段看出,他并不是一个乌托邦式的空想者,他对于生意和利润有自己的看法。B不对,文中虽然提及将通过引入大公司而获得利润,但这并不代表只依靠大公司获利,这是对文意的过分引申。D不对,文章作者虽然对这一计划抱怀疑态度,但并不绝对。
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