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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题57 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. In World War Ⅱ the factory was heavily bombed and rebuilt afterwards. Bankruptcy forced the factory to close its doors in 1980. After years of 1 , large parts of the factory had become ruined and run 2 . An unsafe, abandoned place, with widespread vandalism the factory soon 3 into a source of nuisance to the local 4 . The project aims to reconvert the old textile factory into a city park. This reconversion is part of a mixed-use development urban renewal project 5 by Sogent, the urban development company of Ghent.  Surrounded, as it is, by a 6 of functions and users, the park is under a lot of outside pressure. The aim was to create a diversified park which could 7 this pressure and stimulate a 8 community life for the neighbourhood. The design brief proved a simultaneous exercise in creating a site with plenty of flow, 9 preserving walls and constructions and maintaining a 10 , workable zoning of the parks functions. The orthogonal plan of the old textile factory is 1 as a basic template for a zoning of the park. New, organic green spaces and a paths network 12 with what remains of this underlying structure.  By preserving some historical marks, the park becomes an architectural 13 . On another level, the integration of portraits of former employees in the factory (central gangway), 14 a social dimension to the historical one already present in the parks design. On the whole, new meaning and new life are 15 by the bringing together of past and present. The walls and structures become the historical placemat for the development of new activities. 16 the diversified park was 17 , there has been a revival of activity in the neighbourhood. The reconversion h