3.Minoru Yamasaki was a well-known American architect(建筑師).He was born in 1912in Seattle.Washington.His parents came from
Japan.Minoru went to college to study architecture.Every summer he worked in a fish factory to help pay for college.Often he worked from four o'clock in the morning until midnight.He slept in a room with 100other men.Later in life.Yamasaki remembered these times and was always good to his workers.
Yamasaki sometimes dreamed about his work.Once he woke up at three o'clock in the morning. He got up and started to drawthebuilding that was in his dream andhe still remembered.Yamasaki used a new design for the buildings.These buildings are now the Century Plaza Hotel,and Tower in Los Angeles,California.
Yamasaki was different from other architects.His buildings give people a feeling of peace and happiness.Many of his designs have pools of water,flowers,and windows on the roof to let in light.He always designed buildings to please people.He wanted to give them a place away from the busy ways of modern life.
Yamasaki worked for several companies.But his success began when he started his own company.In 1956,he won the Architect's First Honor Award for his design of an airport in St.Louis.Missouri.He won two more awards over the next five years.In l962,he designed the World Trade Center in New York.It is very famous.
In l993,a bomb exploded(炸彈爆炸)in the World Trade Center.But the buildings did not fall down because they had a good design.
Yamasaki had strong opinions about his buildings.They had to be built his way.He refused to change the design of his buildings,even if he lost a job.
Minoru Yamasaki died in l986.He designed more than 300buildings.People will enjoy the design and beauty of his buildings for a very longtime.
105.根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容完成句子填空(每空限填一個(gè)單詞).
In the first paragraph the writer of the passage tells uswhen andwhere Minoru Yamasaki was born.
106.根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容完成句子填空(每空限填一個(gè)單詞).
The buildings that Minoru Yamasaki designed are different from the other architects'because his buildings always make people feelpeaceful andhappy
107.根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答問(wèn)題.
From which sentence in the passage can we know Yamasaki had strong opinions about his buildings?He refused to change the design of his buildings,even if he lost a job.
108.把短文中畫底線的句子譯成漢語(yǔ).他起床開(kāi)始畫那棟夢(mèng)到的、他仍記得的大樓.
109.根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容用一個(gè)完整的英文句子(限8個(gè)詞以內(nèi))回答問(wèn)題.
Minoru Yamasaki was a well-known American architect.What is he famous for?He is famous for his design and buildings..