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Central Park, emerging from a period of abuse and neglect, remains one of the most popular attractions in New York City, with ha

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问题     Central Park, emerging from a period of abuse and neglect, remains one of the most popular attractions in New York City, with half a million out-of-towners among the more than 3 million people who visit the park yearly. About 15 million individual visits are made each year.
    Summer is the season for softball, concerts, and Shakespeare; fall is stunning; winter is wonderful for sledding, skating, and skiing; and spring-time is the loveliest of all. It was all planned that way.
    About 130 years ago Frederic Law Olmsted and his collaborator Calvert Vaux submitted their landscaping plan for rectangular parcel two miles north of the town’s center. The barren swampy tract, home for squatters and a bone-boiling works that made glue, was reported as "a pestilential spot where miasmic odors taint every breath of air". It took 16 years for workers with pickaxes and shovels to move 5 million cubic feet of earth and rock, and to plant half a million trees and shrubs , making a tribute to nature—a romantic nineteenth-century perception of nature.
    What exists today is essentially Olmsted and Vaux’s plan, with more trees, buildings, and asphalt. Landscape architects still speak reverently of Olmsted’s genius and foresight, and the sensitive visitor can see the effects he sought.
It can be inferred from the passage that today’s landscape architects praise Olmsted for his_.
选项 A、enthusiasm for sport
B、skill at designing factories
C、concern for New York’s homeless people
D、foresight in anticipating New York’s urbanization
答案D
解析 从文章最后一段中：“Landscape architects still speak reverently of Olmsted’s genius and foresight”可知，环境美化专家们至今还满怀敬意地谈起Olmsted的天才和预见能力，现在的纽约已不是130年前的纽约了，而中央公园历经百年直到今日还吸引着大批的游客。这说明Olmsted对纽约的未来发展有着极为准确而深远的预见性。故选D。
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