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following passage. My father’s reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City was immediate and definite. “You won’t catch me putting my money in there!” he declared, “Not in that glass box!” Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money. In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity (实物) that could be carried, or stolen. Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money wo A. money is not as valuable as it was in the past B. changes have taken place in both the appearance and the concept of banks C. the architectural style of the older bank is superior to that of the modern bank D. prejudice makes the older generation think that the modern bank is unreliable 更多"{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Que"的相关试题: [单项选择]
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