Loving and Hating New York 练习题答案/answerⅠ. 1. Olmsted : Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. ( 1870 -- 1975 ), American landscape architect. A Harvard graduate (1894),he studied under his father, Fredcrick Law Olmsted, and began practice as landscape architect in 1895. He was landscape architect for the Metropolitan Park System of Boston, 1898--1920; Baltimore Park and Park Commission, 1902--1917; member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1929, and again from 1945. He acted in consulting capacity for and designed portions of the parks or other public improvements of many towns and cities and numerous institutions, land subdivisions, and private properties. Among his designs in Washington D.C. were those for Rock Creek and Anacostia Parks, the Mall, and the White House grounds. He wrote numerous articles and reports on professional subjects. 2. Bach: John Sebastian Bach (1685--1750),German composer and organist, one of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western World. He brought poly- phonic baroque music to its culmination, creating masterful and vigorous works in almost every musical form known in his period. Born into a gifted family, Bach was devoted to music from childhood; he was taught by his father and later by his brother Johann Christophe. His education was acquired largely through independent studies. Since few of Bach's many works were published in his lifetime, exact dates cannot be fixed for all of them, but most can be placed with some certainty in the periods of his life. At Arnstadt and Miihlhausen he began a series of organ compositions that culminated in the great works of the Weimar period; the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor. At Cothen he concentrated on instrumental compositions, especially keyboard works: the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue; the English Suites; and Book I of the celebrated The Well-Tempered-Clavier. He also wrote several unaccompanied violin Sonatas and cello suites, and the Brandenburg Concertos, recognized as the best concerti grossi ever composed. As musical director of St Thomas at Leipzig, he composed many of his superb religious compositions, the Christmas Oratorio, the St. Matthew Passion, etc. The principal keyboard works of this period were Book Ⅱ of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the four books of clavier pieces in the Clavierubung, which includes: six partitas (1726--1731); the Italian Concerto and the Partita in B minor (1735); and the Goldberg Variations. The bulk of his work is religious. In addition, he composed an astonishing number of instrumental works, many of them designed for the instruction of his numerous pupils. In his instrumental and choral works he perfected the art of polyphony, displaying an unmatched combination of inventiveness and control in his great, striding fugues. During his lifetime, Bach was better known as an organist than as a composer. For decades after his death his works were neglected, but in the 19th century his genius came to be recognized, particularly by romantic composers such as Mendelssohn and Schumann. Since that time his reputation has grown steadily. 整理为word格式Ⅱ. 1. No, his hometown is Seattle, a seaport in west central Washington State on Puget Sound. See paragraph 4. 2. These signs show that New York is no longer the leading city in the United States. 3. New York no longer begets the styles and sets the trends. It is no longer a pacesetter. 4. Other cities have buildings more inspired architecturally. The center of music and sports have also shifted to other cities. As a tourist attraction it is inferior to New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington or Disneyland. Finally, there are many better cities to live in than New York. 5. The Europeans call New York their favorite city because they like its cosmopolitan complexities, its surviving European standards and its alien mixtures. Perhaps some of them are reassured by the international names of jewelers, shoe stores and designer shops. But what most excites Europeans is the city's charged, nervous atmosphere, its vulgar dynamism. 6. Tim writer went to New York because he likes to live there and he could practice the kind of journalism he wanted in that city. 7. The young people go to New York to test themselves and to avoid giving in to the most banal and marketable of their talents. In New York they also find the company of many other young people similarly fleeing from the constricting atmosphere of smaller cities. 8. New York is still the banking and communications headquarters for America. The networks' news centres, the largest book publishers, the biggest magazines, the ad agencies are all here, appraising and ratifying the films, the plays, the music, the books that others have created. 9. Newcomers can find or form their little groups and, though these groups lie close to each other, there is no contact or intercourse between groups. This gives the city its sense of freedom. 10. D。