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2021年12月英语四级阅读真题及答案 第3套 段落匹配

A south Korean city designed for the future takes on a life

of its own

A) Getting around a city is one thing -- and then there's

the matter of getting from one city to another. One vision of

the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access

to air 2021, a University of North Carolina business

professor named John Kasarda published a book called

Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next. Kasarda says future

cities should be built intentionally around or near airports.

The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses "rapid,

long-distance connectivity on a massive scale."

B) "The 18th century really was a waterborne century, the

19th century a rail century, the 20th century a highway, car,

truck century -- and the 21st century will increasingly be an

aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected

by air," Kasarda , a city built from scratch in South

Korea, is one of Kasarda's prime examples. It has existed for

just a few years."From the get-go, it was designed on the basis

of connectivity and competitiveness," says Kasada. "The

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government built the bridge directly from the airport to the

Songdo International Business District. And the surface

infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport."

C) Songdo is a stone's throw from South Korea's Incheon

Airport, its main international hub. But it takes a lot more

than a nearby airport to be a city of the future. Just building

a place as an "international business district" doesn't mean

it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived this city of the

future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. "I am a

visionary," he years after he imagined the city,

Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36,000 people

living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater

Songdo. It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed

tidal flats along the Yellow Sea. There's a Coast Guard building

and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and

university.

D) Chances are you've actually seen this place. Songdo

appears in the most famous music video ever to come out of South

Korea."Gangnam Style" refers to the fashionable Gangnam

district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in Songdo."I

don't know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station.

That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo," says Jung Won

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Son, a professor of urban development at London's Bartlett

School of Planning. "Part of the reason to shoot there is that

it's new and nice."

E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies,

with employees from all over the world. But that's not how it

has turned 's reputation is as a futuristic ghost

town. But the reality is more complicated.A bridge with big,

light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the

center of the main road, there's a long line of flags of the

world. On the corner, there's a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven -- all

of the international brands that you see all over the world

nowadays.

F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing

strollers, old women with walkers -- even in the middle of the

day, when it's 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo

real estate association and started selling property here when

the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has

boomed in the past couple of of his clients are

Korean. In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes

here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the

schools are that's the problem: Songdo has become a

popular Korean city -- more popular as a residential area than

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a business one. It's not yet the futuristic international

business hub that planners imagined. "It's a great place to live.

And it's becoming a great place to work," says Scott Summers,

the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the

city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company's offices

overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and

paddle boats. Shimmering glass towers line the canal’s edge.

G) "What's happened is, because we focused on creating that

quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here,

what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate

here," he says. "There needs to be strong economic

incentives."The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit

like a theme park. It doesn't feel all that futuristic. There's

a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings are

environmentally friendly. Everybody's television set is

connected to a system that streams personalized language or

exercise classes.

H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents,

Songdo feels hollow."I'm, like, in prison for weekdays. That's

what we call it in the workplace," says a woman in her 20s. She

doesn't want to use her name for fear of being fired from her

job. She goes back to Seoul every weekend. "I say I'm

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