任務型閱讀 閱讀短文,按要求完成各題(5分)
Minoru Yamasaki was a well-known American architect(建筑師).He was born in 1912 in Seattle.Washington.His parents came from Japan.
Minoru went to college to study architecture.Every summer he worked in a fish factory to help pay for college.Often he worked from four o’clock in the morning until midnight.He slept in a room with 100 other men.Later in life.Yamasaki remembered these times and was always good to his workers.
Yamasaki sometimes dreamed about his work.Once he woke up at three o’clock in the morning.
He got up and started to draw the building that was in his dream and he still remembered.Yamasaki used a new design for the buildings.These buildings are now the Century Plaza Hotel,and Tower in Los Angeles,California.
Yamasaki was different from other architects.His buildings give people a feeling of peace and happiness.Many of his designs have pools of water,flowers,and windows on the roof to let in light.He always designed buildings to please people.He wanted to give them a place away from the busy ways of modern life.
Yamasaki worked for several companies.But his success began when he started his own company.In 1956,he won the Architect’s First Honor Award for his design of an airport in St.Louis.Missouri.He won two more awards over the next five years.In l962,he designed the World Trade Center in New York.It is very famous.
In l993,a bomb exploded(炸彈爆炸)in the World Trade Center.But the buildings did not fall down because they had a good design.
Yamasaki had strong opinions about his buildings.They had to be built his way.He refused to change the design of his buildings,even if he lost a job.
Minoru Yamasaki died in l986.He designed more than 300 buildings.People will enjoy the design and beauty of his buildings for a very longtime.
小題1:根據短文內容完成句子填空(每空限填一個單詞)。
In the first paragraph the writer of the passage tells us ____________ and ____________ Minoru Yamasaki was born.
小題2:根據短文內容完成句子填空(每空限填一個單詞)。
The buildings that Minoru Yamasaki designed are different from the other architects’ because his buildings always make people feel______________ and ______________
小題3:根據短文內容回答問題。
From which sentence in the passage can we know Yamasaki had strong opinions about his buildings?
小題4:把短文中畫底線的句子譯成漢語。
小題5:根據短文內容用一個完整的英文句子(限8個詞以內)回答問題。
Minoru Yamasaki was a well—known American architect.What is he famous for?