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Back Down to Earth

A U.S. irony: Demand for tall buildings is in short supply

by Rick Hampson
In this, the nation that invented the skyscraper, the tallest private building under construction is a pipsqueak (小人物)- just 30 stories.
But overseas, the sky is the limit.
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the twin Petronas Towers (双子塔) are rising to the heavens - they will be the world’s tallest buildings, the first time that title has passed overseas.
It probably will stay there. Ten years ago, the world’s 10 tallest buildings were m three U.S. cities; as recently as 1993 there were a half dozen proposals to build the next world champ here.
But none was ever built, and today only 10 buildings over 20 stories are going up in the entire nation. By the turn of the century, six of the world’s 10 tallest are expected to be in Southeast Asia.
Has the American sk
A. when technology was relatively weak
B. when transportation was not very efficient
C. when people had to stay together to do their jobs
D. all of the above

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by Rick Hampson
In this, the nation that invented the skyscraper, the tallest private building under construction is a pipsqueak (小人物)- just 30 stories.
But overseas, the sky is the limit.
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the twin Petronas Towers (双子塔) are rising to the heavens - they will be the world’s tallest buildings, the first time that title has passed overseas.
It probably will stay there. Ten years ago, the world’s 10 tallest buildings were m three U.S. cities; as recently as 1993 there were a half dozen proposals to build the next world champ here.
But none was ever built, and today only 10 buildings over 20 stories are going up in the entire nation. By the turn of the century, six of the world’s 10 tallest are expected to be in Southeast Asia.
Has the American sk
A. reasons for the reduction in the demand for tall buildings
B. the difference between the East and the West in the attitude towards .skyscrapers
C. the shift of public interest in the height of buildings
D. the real estate problems around the turn of the twentieth century

[单项选择]Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $1,248,000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called "found photographs" —a loose term given to everything from discarded (丢弃的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes "basically everything is worth looking at", has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago,
A. remind readers of found photographs
B. advise reader to start a new kind of business
C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D. show readers the value of found photographs