六级快速阅读 模拟练习题.pdf

六六级快速阅读级快速阅读 模拟练习题模拟练习题 编写 付建利编写 付建利 如有问题 到新浪微博提问 如有问题 到新浪微博提问 付建利付建利 The Secret Language of Signs Signage the kind we see on city streets in airports on highways in hospital corridors is the most useful thing we pay no attention to When it works well it tells us where we are as when an Interstate marker assures us we re on the right highway and it helps us to get where we want to go as when an airport banner directs us to our gate When it fails we miss trains we re late to appointments we spend hours pacing the indistinguishable floors of underground parking garages muttering to ourselves in mounting frustration and fury And in some cases especially where automobiles are involved the consequences of bad signage can be fatal Bad signs can send perfectly ordinary citizens into spirals of obsession Take Richard Ankrom a Los Angeles artist who thought the junction of the 110 freeway and the 5 freeway was badly marked In 2001 he put on an outfit that looked like the ones Caltrans highway workers wore climbed up onto a freeway gantry and mounted an aluminum sign he d manufactured himself according to state specs The sign stayed up for nine months without anyone noticing what he d done when the story leaked to the press and Caltrans finally cottoned on the agency left the sign up for eight more years eventually replacing it with one of their own that served the same function Or consider Leslie Gallery Dilworth a Philadelphia architect who took a road trip with her husband through Spain in the 1980s Throughout the journey they d marveled at the simplicity of the European road signs which were easy to use even though neither of them spoke Spanish Upon their return to Philly they got lost on the way from the airport to their house when a bad set of signs directed them to a local dump Dilworth was so struck by her own city s inhospitality that she spent much of the next decade working with the city and local stakeholders revamping Philadelphia s sign systems Today she s the CEO of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design the premier American professional group for sign designers Road signs in Spain Most people when they think about it can point to signs that have failed them the hospital complex that felt like a labyrinth or the exit they always almost miss But the truth is that signage today is far better than it s been at any other point in history A century ago sign design wasn t a profession to speak of the signs that guided riders and pedestrians there weren t many drivers yet tended to be informal and ad hoc As the automobile took off the world found it needed traffic engineers and it was these men and women who were the first to think seriously about sign systems America put national standards for road signs in place in 1935 But the developers of office buildings shopping malls and other pedestrian spaces were slow to follow suit Developers tended to assume that architects would take care of sign design and many architects would leave it up to tenants As a result security guards and secretaries were often the ones to help orient the lost The 1970s saw the first stirrings of revolution in the sign world That s when the SEGD was founded and it s when designers first began to seriously study how best to orient people and guide them through space Their work was prompted in part by America s great urban thinkers people like Kevin Lynch and Jane Jacobs who argued that spaces should be designed not to fulfill the grand visions of architects but with humble human uses in mind The field earned a name wayfinding a Lynch coinage and today people in the business call themselves wayfinding designers and talk about places that have good wayfinding or terrible wayfinding By the 1980s and 90s wayfinding advocates were involved in more development projects but dispatches from the era have a slightly aggrieved air designers of environmental graphics still often found themselves fighting for a place at the table During the last 10 years however wayfinding has come into its own More requests for proposals for major building initiatives now require bidders to explain how they ll handle wayfinding design Many cities have installed wayfinding systems like the one Dilworth helped build in Philadelphia New airports and train stations are routinely built with good navigation in mind Why has there been such growth in the field One cause is the remarkable pace of economic development over the past half century Developed countries have been building increasingly complicated spaces shopping malls multiplexes convention centers multi terminal airports that require good navigation systems in order for people to use them In addition businesses and municipalities alike have realized that well oriented people are calmer happier and more likely to spend money and plan return visits than people who are lost Investing in a good wayfinding system has real financial rewards Advertisement Another cause is our increasingly globalized planet Much of the innovation in the sign world has been spurred by airports places where people of all nationalities and tongues must move quickly efficiently and safely through huge spaces For years designers have been developing graphical symbols to help non natives find the bathrooms the baggage claims and the bureaux de change and in the process they ve been inventing a global language a kind of pictorial Esperanto A third cause is our society s increasing inclusiveness The 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act was the first piece of national legislation to mandate the accessibility of privately managed public spaces like hotels and universities And because the law deals with visual as well as physical impairment its accessibility guidelines require that standards of legibility be maintained in directional signs they evolved to specify everything from the size of fonts to the contrast between lettering and its background This development turned out to be as useful for the rest of us as it was for the legally blind Finally there s the fact that we have all increasingly become connoisseurs of good design Fifty years ago design belonged to designers But the advent of the personal computer introduced us all to fonts line spacing and page layout and machines from the photocopier to the iPhone have left us familiar with icons both clear and confusing Navigating the Web has made us smarter about orienting ourselves in virtual space As a result when we see badly designed signs we demand better Joe Calderone a spokesman for the Long Island Railroad notes that the agency is not wanting for feedback Our customers are not shy about telling us if things don t work Ironically just as our signs have improved we ve seen the advent of something that makes us less dependent on them than ever before satellite navigation Our iPhones and the GPS systems in our cars orient us in relation not to fixed squares of metal on our roads but to orbiting wheels of technology in the sky Designers are confident that we ll always need signs after all you still need to know which street is Rogers when your car tells you to take it but folks in the satellite business aren t so sure By examining how signs have evolved and how they help us now we can determine whether signage s golden age is ending or just beginning 1 The sign Richard Ankrom mounted onto a freeway gantry A was made by the state government B was replaced nine months later C stayed up for almost nine years D succeeded in giving fight directions 2 How did Dilworth think about the road signs in Spain A They were not a8 effective as American ones B They can only be recognized by the local people C They were too simple to be understood D They worked well in showing directions 3 Who Were considered to be the first to think about sign systems A Architectsin Philadelphia B Traffic engineers C Automobile drivers D Artists like Ankrom 4 Security guards and secretaries often had to give directions for the lostbecause A no useful signs were set up B the facilities were too huge C developers were incapable of building signs D architects often built ineffective signs 5 Kevin