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北大05年同等学力申硕学位外语水平统考模拟试题(9)
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| 文章出处： 发布时间：2006-03-29 |
Passage Five
Architects are hopeless when it comes to deciding whether the public will view their designs as marvels or monstrosities, according to a study by Canadian psychologists. They say designers should go back to school to learn about ordinary people’s tastes.
Many buildings that appeal to architects get the thumbs down from the public. Robert Gifford of the University of Victoria in British Columbia decided to find out whether architects understand public preferences and simply disagree with them, or fail to understand the lay person’s view.
With his colleague Graham Brown, he asked 25 experienced architects to look at photos of 42 large buildings in the US, Canada, Europe and Hong Kong. The architects predicted how the public would rate the buildings on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 represented “terrible” and 10 “excellent”. A further 27 people who were not architects also scored the buildings out of 10. In addition, eight architects gave their own personal ratings of the buildings.
The three groups tended to agree among themselves on a building’s merits. And architects correctly predicted that lay people would on average rate buildings higher than they did themselves. But for individual buildings, the architects’ perceptions of what the lay people would think were often way off the mark. “Some architects are quite good at predicting lay preferences, but others are not only poor at it , they get it backwards.” says Gifford.
For instance, architects gave the Stockley Park Building B-3 offices in London a moderate rating of 5.2. They thought the public would like it much better, predicting a rating of 6.3. But the public actually disliked the offices, and gave it 4.7. Gifford thinks that lay people respond to specific features of buildings, such as durability and originality, and hopes to pin down what they are.
“Architects in architecture school need to be taught how lay people think about buildings,” Gifford concludes. He doesn’t think designers should pander to the lowest common denominator, but suggests they should aspire towards buildings that appeal to the public and architects alike, such as the Bank of China building in Hong Kong.
Marco Goldschmeid of the Richard Rogers Partnership, designers of the Millennium Dome in London, thinks the study is flawed. “The authors have assumed, wrongly, that buildings can be meaningfully judged from photographs rather than actual visits,” he says. Goldschmeid thinks it would be more significant and interesting to look at the divergence of public taste between generations.
51. What does the first paragraph of this passage imply?
A. Architects have a dark future in designing marvelous buildings.
B. Architects don’t care about how ordinary people view their designs.
C. It is very difficult for architects to please the general public.
D. Architects don’t know much about the public tastes for buildings.
52. Through his study, Robert Gifford found that .
A. the three groups had similar responses to the photos of 42 large buildings
B. the architects generally rated buildings lower than lay people
C. the architects predicted precisely the preferences of lay people
D. no architect could predict the public tastes towards buildings accurately
53. From the passage we can learn that the Bank of China building in Hong Kong .
A. panders to the lowest common denominator
B. gets a low rate from the architects
C. appeals to the public as well as the architects
D. gives the architects a lot of aspiration
54. Marco Goldschmeid thinks that Gifford’s study is flawed because .
A. it uses photos instead of actual visits
B. it ignores the public tastes between generations
C. it lacks the necessary significance and interests
D. it doesn’t take into account the differences within the public
55. What does the passage mainly deal with ?
A. How to design attractive buildings.
B. Architects need to understand public tastes.
C. How lay people view buildings.
D. Different tastes between architects and the public.
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