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My father’s reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in
My father’s reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in
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My father’s reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City was immediate and definite: "You won’t catch me putting my money in there!" he declared, "Not in that glass box!"
Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.
In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity (实物) that could be carried, or stolen. Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside, If a building’s design made it appear impenetrable, the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol dwelt in the prevailing attitude toward money.
But the attitude toward money has, of course, changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. A deficit (赤字) economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us the safety; he offers us a service in which the most valuable element is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank.
Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture boasts of imaginative powers. From this point of view, it is hard to say where architecture ends and human assertion (说法) begins. [br] How do the older generation and the younger one think about money?
选项
A、The former thinks more of money than the latter.
B、The younger generation values money more than the older generation.
C、Both generations rely on the imaginative power of bankers to make money.
D、To the former money is a real commodity but to the latter the means of producing more money.
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。第三段第一句指出对于父亲那一代人来说钱是可以带在身上,可能会被偷走的实物,后面则表明现在钱已经不再是具体的实物了,是创造性的想象的产物。文中主要是体现老一代人和现代人对于银行和钱的概念不同,并没有指出谁比谁好,因此A选项和B选项不正确;C选项指的现代人,并不是老一代人,因此不正确。D选项指出了两代人的不同观念,是正确答案。
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