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In January commuters voted Birmingham New Street one of Britain’s worst railway stations. Each day nearly 150,000 people move th
In January commuters voted Birmingham New Street one of Britain’s worst railway stations. Each day nearly 150,000 people move th
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2016-03-21
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In January commuters voted Birmingham New Street one of Britain’s worst railway stations. Each day nearly 150,000 people move through a structure built for half as many. But by next year it will be transformed, with 400 tonnes of undulating steel cladding and a vaguely eyeball appearance. The station will have
"the wow factor"
, boasts Sir Albert Bore, the leader of Birmingham city council. It will also show how much attitudes to railway stations have changed.
Railway stations are the chief exception to the rule that Britain invests too little in infrastructure. Of the 17 big termini managed by Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s tracks, 11 are being redeveloped or have recently been completed. Five other stations, including Reading and Northampton, are being spruced up by local councils and Network Rail.
Some simply need to be expanded: the number of train journeys has risen by 35% since 2005. But the design of New Street suggests aspirations well beyond more easeful travel. The building would not look out of place in Dubai and is striking, if slightly incongruous, in the grey West Midlands. City planners wanted something monumental, like Grand Central station in New York, says Sir Bernard Zissman, chairman of the independent design panel.
" Twenty or thirty years ago business people were more likely to arrive in a city by car," explains Jon Neale of Jones Lang LaSalle, a property specialist. Town planners duly carved out motorways and roundabouts to entice them. In 1962 a local politician claimed that a new design for Birmingham, involving an inner ring road, would make it "one of the finest city centres in Europe".
Cities now measure their appeal by their stations. Businesses cluster around them: at King’s Cross, a once-nasty part of north London, a postcode has been created for all the new buildings around the station, which was redeveloped in 2013. John Lewis, an upmarket department store, will open in the mall above New Street along with 60 other shops. The council hopes it will pull in visitors to the city.
Such ambition recalls the stations of the 19th century. Those structures "spoke to the corporate sensibility of a city," says Tristram Hunt, an MP and historian, by combining commerce with the sheen of civic pride. The first New Street station, built in 1851, had the largest single-span roof in the country at the time. It was torn down by enthusiastic town planners in the 1960s. Now some of its original lustre may return.
The phrase" the wow factor"(Line 4, Para. 1)is closest to ______.
选项
A、magnificent
B、disappointing
C、gorgeous
D、impressive
答案
D
解析
根据第一段对于新车站的描述,再根据“boast吹嘘”一词,我们知道这个词的意思一定是好的,故[B]项的disappointing“令人失望的”可以排除。而wow一词是象声词,类似于“哇”的意思,用来表示惊叹,故可以猜测the wow factor是“令人惊叹的,令人震撼的,令人印象深刻的”的意思;且选项[A]magnificent“宏伟的,壮观的”与[C]gorgeous“壮丽的”意思也相近,故可以排除这两项。综上,该题最佳答案为impressive“给人留下深刻印象的”,即[D]为本题答案。
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