Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the best answer for each of the question from 43- 50
In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house, was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economic and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting facade, the living place was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to young married couple and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the late 1870’s and early 1880’s, was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep - a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.
So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout on multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.
Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1880’s?
A. Large families needed housing with sufficient space
B. Apartments were preferable to tenements and cheaper than row houses
C. The city officials of “New York wanted housing that was centrally located
D. The shape of early apartments could accommodate a variety of interior designs
Đáp án B
Tại sao ý tưởng sống trong một căn hộ trở nên phổ biến vào cuối những năm 1880?
A. Các gia đình lớn cần nhà ở có đủ không gian
B. Căn hộ thích hợp hơn với các khu nhà ở và rẻ hơn so với các dãy nhà
C. Các quan chức thành phố của "New York muốn nhà ở được đặt ở trung tâm
D. Hình dạng của các căn hộ ban đầu có thể chứa một loạt các thiết kế nội thất