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As with any work of art, the merit of Chapman Kelley’s "Wildflower Works I" was in the eye of the beholder.
Kelley, who normally works with paint and canvas, considered the twin oval gardens planted in 1984 at Daley Bicentennial Park his most important piece.
The Chicago Park District considered it a patch of raggedy vegetation on public property that could be dug up and replanted at will like the flower boxes along Michigan Avenue. And that’s what happened in June 2004, when the district decided to create a more orderly vista for pedestrians crossing from Millennium Park via the new Frank Gehry footbridge.
If you’re looking for evidence that the rubes who run the Park District don’t know art when they see it, all you have to do is visit what’s left of Kelley’s masterpiece. The exuberant 1.5-acre tangle of leggy wildflowers is now confined to a tidy rectangle, restrained on all sides by a knee-high hedge and surrounded by a closely cropped lawn. White hydrangeas and pink shrub roses complete the look. We don’t know who’s responsible for the redesign, but We’ll bet the carpet in his home doesn’t go with the furniture.
Still, you’d think the Park District Was within its rights to plow under the prairie. Wrong. Kelley just won at lawsuit in which he argued that the garden was public are and therefore protected by the federal Visual Artists Rights Act. Under that law, the district should have given him 90 days’ notice that it intended to mess with his artwork instead of rushing headlong into the demolition, a la Meigs Field. That way Kelley could have mounted a legal challenge, or at least removed the plants.
Park District officials said they never considered the garden a work of art, even though it was installed by an established artist and not, say, Joe’s Sod and Landscaping. We can understand their confusion. Just recently, we figured out that the caged greenery directly south of Pritzker Pavilion is supposed to be an architectural statement and not a Christmas tree lot.
All that’s left is for the district to compensate Kelley for his loss. Whatever price the parties settle on, let’s hope the agreement also provides for the removal of the rest of "Wildflower Works I. " If it was’t an eyesore before—and plenty of people thought it was... it sure is now.

What’s the author’s attitude towards the present "Wildflower Works I"

A.He takes a neutral position.

B.He believes in the long arm of the law.

C.He regards it a masterpiece of public art.

D.He is in favor of demolishing the ugly garden.

答案

参考答案:D

解析: 根据文中最后一段最后一句的内容可知,作者认为公园现在被改造的真的很丑陋,所以D项“作者支持拆除丑陋的公园”符合文意。A项“作者保持中立的立场”,作者在最后用的词“eyesore眼中钉,难看的东西”这个词语并不是中性词,所以中立立场显然不正确;B项“他相信法律长远的帮助”;C项“他把公园看成是公众的艺术”,B、C两项在文中都没有体现,所以这三项都不符合题意。

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科学家发现删除记忆方法

假如记忆可以删除,那么人生该会多么美好——我们可以按照自己的意愿和选择,去保留那些美好的记忆,然后完全不留痕迹地删除掉那些让人痛苦的记忆,就像喝了传说中的忘情水。

这一美好愿望今后也许可以得到实现。

据英国《每日邮报》报道,科学家称未来有望能够利用化学手段抹去令人感到痛苦不堪的记忆,并将有助于治疗恐惧症和应激障碍等。这项研究是由美国佐治亚医学院研究小组和中国 华东师范大学的科学家共同合作,研究出利用化学手段可以有选择性地删除小白鼠大脑中痛苦的记忆,并且不会破坏小白鼠大脑组织,使清除不想拥有的记忆成为可能。他们从小白鼠大脑中成功分离出记忆分子,并利用这种分子清除了它不愉快的记忆。

在试验中,研究人员将老鼠放到一个小房间里,播放一段录音,然后反复电击小白鼠,因此,老鼠脑海中对这个房间和声音产生了痛苦的记忆。当再一次进入这个房间或听到这种声音时便会变得惶恐不安、身体不停地颤抖。研究人员将小白鼠放到同一个房间内但并没有播放录音,并给它注射被称为CamKII蛋白质,它仅仅忘记了这个房间给它造成的恐惧,但是下一次播放录音时,依然会恐惧颤抖。然后,研究人员将小白鼠再一次放到这个房间并播放让它感到恐惧的录音,并注射这种蛋白质。随后再将它放在同样的环境中并播放同样的录音,小白鼠表现正常,并没有恐惧状态的产生。  

这项研究成果发表在了《神经细胞》杂志上.研究负责人乔·特斯坦博士在论文中称:“虽然记忆是伟大的老师,对于生存和适应环境至关重要,但是有选择性地删除一些难以接受的记忆,例如造成心灵创伤的战争记忆或恐惧心理,这样可以帮助他们生活的更好。”然而,研究人员称这种方法抹去的仅仅是令其痛苦难忘的记忆。

这项突破令人感到兴奋,研究人员相信,最终可以研制出帮助人们管理记忆的的方法。

小题1:本文报道了一项什么研究成果。(4分)

小题2:假如人的记忆可以删除,可能给人类带来哪些好处?请根据文意概括。(6分)

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