Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City 1 THE IMAGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Kevin Lynch
Looking at cities can give a special pleasure, however commonplace the sight
may be. Like a piece of architecture, the city is a construction in space, but
one of vast scale, a thing perceived only in the course of long spans of time.
City design is therefore a temporal art, but it can rarely use the controlled and
limited sequences of other temporal arts like music. On different occasions
and for different people, the sequences are reversed, interrupted, abandoned,
cut across. It is seen in all lights and all weathers.
At every instant, there is more than the eye can see, more than the ear can
hear, a setting or a view waiting to be explored. Nothing is experienced by
itself, but always in relation to its surroundings, the sequences of events
Passage 1
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Nancy is an English school girl. She studies in a middle school. She has a little brother. His name is John.
John is only four. Nancy likes him very much.
Today is Sunday. Nancy wants to do her homework. She takes out her pencil-box and opens it. "Oh, dear!
Where's my pen?"She can't find her pen. She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.
"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see...? Oh, what are you doing with my pen? ” “I'm writing to my friend,
Peter.” John answers. "But how can you? You don't know how to write! ""It doesn't matter. Peter can't read, "
John says.
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study 学习，思索 take out 拿出，取出
( ) 1. How old is Nancy's brother?
A. Five. B. Four. C. Six. D. Three.
( ) 2. __________ can't find her pen.
A. Nancy
American Place Names and Their Culture
Abstract: American place names have a closely connection with American history
and culture. We will get much information related to American culture toward
studying the living fossil，American place names, created by history, culture,
environment, and so on. Place name mirrored the social changes and historical
changes, even the special culture of one country. The fifty U.S. states have taken their
names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from
indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian: eight from Algonquian
languages, seven from Siouan languages, three from Iroquoian languages, one from
Uto-Aztecan language, and five from other Native American languages. Twenty-two
other state names derive from European languages: seven come from Latin, five come
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the
U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising
fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central
North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and
Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic
Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The
state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the
east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is
an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several
territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
At 3.79 million square miles and with over 310 million people, the
United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area. It is one
