C

Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect whose tall structures left a mark on skylines and imaginations around the world and in the process reshaped architecture for the modern age.

She was not an average designer. She liberated architectural geometry(几何), giving it a whole new expressive identity. Geometry became, in her hands, a vehicle for unprecedented and eye-popping new spaces. Her buildings elevated uncertainty to an art, conveyed in the odd ways.
Her work implying mobility, speed, freedom and uncertainty spoke to a worldview widely shared by a younger generation. “I am not European, I don’t do conventional work and I am a woman,’’ Strikingly Ms. Hadid never allowed herself on her work to be categorized by her background or her gender. And she was one of a kind, a path breaker. In 2004, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s Nobel.
Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad on October 31, 1950. Then in 1972, she arrived at the architectural association in London, a center for experimental design. Her teachers included Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas. “They aroused my ambition,” she would recall, “and taught me to trust even my strangest instincts.” By the 1980s she had established her own practice in London. And she began to draw attention with an unrealized plan in 1982—1983 for the Peak Club.
Her partner, Patrick Schumacher, played an instrumental and collaborative role in her career. Mr. Schumacher coined the term parametric(参数的)design to include the computer-based approach that helped the firm’s most weird concepts become reality. Ms. Hadid called what resulted in an organic language of architecture, based on these new tools, which allow us to combine highly complex forms into a fluid(流线的)and complete whole.
Her sources were nature, history or whatever she sought useful. When her Rosenthal Center, a relatively modest project, opened in 2003, Herbert Muschamp, the architecture critic declared it “the most important American building to be completed since the end of the cold war”.
“She was bigger than life, a force of nature,” as Amale Andraos, the dean of Columbia University’s architecture school, put it, “she was a pioneer.”
She was. For women, for what cities can desire to build and for the art of architecture.
【语篇解读】本文是记叙文。文章讲述了女性建筑家扎哈·哈迪德对城市建筑所做出的贡献。
61. What features the structures designed by Zaha Hadid?
A. Free architectural geometry. B. Conventional design.
C. Odd imagination. D. Colorful patterns.
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据第二段中的“She liberated architectural geometry( 几何), giving it a whole new expressive identity. Geometry became, in her hands, a vehicle for unprecedented and eye-popping new spaces.”可知，她解放了建筑几何学，赋予它一种全新的表现身份，几何学在她手中成为了一个前所未有的、令人瞠目结舌的新空间的载体。由此可知，扎哈·哈迪德设计的结构特点是自由的建筑几何。故A项正确。
62. According to Paragraphs 3 and 4, which of the following statement is TRUE?
A. Zaha Hadid taught herself to trust instincts.
B. The plan for the Peak Club hasn’t been carried out.
C. The architect’s gender influenced her work dramatically.
D. Zaha Hadid was the first architect to win the Pritzker Prize.
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据第四段中的“And she began to draw attention with an unrealized plan in 1982—1983 for the Peak Club.”可知，1982年至1983年，她为匹克俱乐部制定了一项未实现的计划，开始引起人们的注意。未实现的计划，也就是说她的匹克俱乐部的计划没有被实施。故B项正确。
63. How did the computer-based approach make a difference to Zaha Hadid’s work?
A. It contributes to realizing the strange ideas.
B. It simplifies the complex structure as a whole.
C. It provides new tools to translate the language.
D. It serves as an instrument to interpret the concepts.
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据倒数第四段中的“Mr. Schumacher coined the term parametric(参数的)design to include the computer-based approach that helped the firm’s most weird concepts become reality.”可知，舒马赫创造了“参数化设计”这个术语，以包括基于计算机的方法，这种方法帮助公司将最怪异的概念变成了现实。由此可知，基于计算机的方法有助于实现扎哈·哈迪德的奇怪的想法。故A项正确。
64. The purpose of the passage is to _______.
A. present Zaha Hadid’s life experience
B. praise Zaha Hadid’s inspiration and diligence
C. compare Zaha Hadid’s works in different times
D. show Zaha Hadid’s great contributions to architecture
【答案】D
【解析】主旨大意题。通读全文，特别是根据第一段中的“Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect whose tall structures left a mark on skylines and imaginations around the world and in the process reshaped architecture for the modern age.”可知，英国建筑家扎哈·哈迪德设计的高大的建筑在世界各地的天际线和想象中留下了印记，并在这一过程中重塑了现代建筑。由此可知，本文主要介绍的就是扎哈·哈迪德对建筑所做出的贡献，故D项正确。