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The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After immigrating from
England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt t
o 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, there 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.
1. How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities?
A. Through his observation of the co
untry life.
B. Through the combination of different ideas.
C. By taking other people's advice.
D. By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago.
2. 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
3. According to Howard, garden cities should be built______.
A. as far as possible from existing cities
B. in the countryside where the land was cheap
C. in the countryside where ag
riculture was developed
D. near cities where employment opportunities already existed
4. What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph?
