I REALLY BELIEVE MY LETTER COMES AS A GREAT SURPRISE TO JOHN
Câu 17 (VDC):
I really believe my letter comes as a great surprise to John.
A.
John might have been very surprised to receive my letter.
B.
John must be very surprised to receive my letter.
C.
John may be very surprised to receive my letter.
D.
John must have been very surprised to receive my letter.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
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 economics and social potential of
this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt's
inviting façade, the living space 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 couples and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that
quickly followed, in the 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 in 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.