In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York's first apartment house, was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developed Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economic and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt's inviting facade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to reunion in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to young married couples and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the late 1870's and early 1880's, was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.
So while the city's newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions,apartment houses and hotels began to sprout on multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia, finally transcended the light confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth avenue shopping area.
31.The new housing form discussed in the passage refers to
(A) single-family homes
(B) apartment buildings
(C) row houses
(D) hotels
32.The word "inviting" in line 7 is closest in meaning to
(A) open
(B) encouraging
(C) attractive
(D) asking
33.Why was the Stuyvesant a limited success?
(A) The arrangement of the rooms was not convenient
(B) Most people could not afford to live there.
(C) There were no shopping areas nearby.
(D) It was in a crowded neighborhood.
34.The word "sumptuous" in line 9 is closest in meaning to
(A) luxurious
(B) unique
(C) modern
(D) distant
35.It can be inferred that the majority of people who live in New York's first apartments were
(A) highly educated
(B) unemployed
(C) wealthy
(D) young become popular in the late 1800's?
36.It can be inferred that the typical New York building lot of the 1870's and 1880's looked MOST like which of the following?
37.It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 1870's and 1880's had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:
(A) Its room arrangement was not logical.
(B) It was rectangular.
(C) It was spacious inside.
(D) It had limited light.
38.The word "yield" in line 15 is closest in meaning to
(A) harvest
(B) surrender
(C) amount
(D) provide
39.Why did the idea of living in an apartment
(A) Large families needed housing with sufficient space.
(B) Apartments were preferable to tenements and cheaper than row houses.
(C) The city official of New York wanted housing that was centrally located.
(D) The shape of early apartments could accommodate a variety of interior designs.
40.The author mentions the Dakota and the Ansonia in line 24 because
(A) they are examples of large, well-designed apartment buildings
(B) their design is similar to that of row houses
(C) they were build on a single building lot
(D) they are famous hotels
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