The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard(1850~1928). After immigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”，almost certainly the source of Howard’s name for his later building plan of towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs.
The nineteenth-century poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities. At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression(萧条) and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life. Howard’s idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard’s idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside, far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price.
Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms but also some industrial institutions. As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach its planned limit---Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away. Thus, over time, they would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide range of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city.
小题1:What could be the best title for the passage?
A．City and Countryside
B．A New City in Chicago
C．The Invention of the Garden City
D．A Famous Garden City in England小题2:How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities?
A．Through his observation of the country life.
B．By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago.
C．By taking other people’s advice.
D．Through the combination of different ideas.小题3:According to Howard, garden cities should be built _______.
A．as far as possible from existing cities
B．near cities where employment opportunities already existed
C．in the countryside where agriculture was developed
D．in the countryside where the land was cheap小题4:The underlined phrase“drawing on ”in Paragraph 1 probably means______.
A．making use of
B．making comments on
C．giving an explanation of
D．giving a description of小题5:What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph?
A．People would live and work in the same place.
B．Each one would continue to become larger.
C．Their number would continue to rise.
D．Each one would contain a certain type of business.
