My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four year

My family and I lived across the streetfrom Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year the city puta chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing(用推土机推平)the trees and grass tomake way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, Iasked myself，“Whydon't they just leave it alone？”

Looking back, I think what sentenced thepark to oblivion(被遗忘)was the drought(旱灾)we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was anice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends andI rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the trees, and swam in the pool allthe years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then thesummer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed.

There had been almost no rain at all thatyear. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks I foundmyself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the parktrees, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the park swimmingpool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, andpretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.

As the drought lasted into the fall, thepark got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the browngrass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down ontheir luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The park hadgotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore.

The drought finally ended and things seemedto get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten intosuch bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six monthsago I heard that the city was going to“redevelop”certain worn­out areas of thecity. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell theland and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.

The chain­link fencing and the bulldozersdid their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartmentbuildings. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in eachdirection. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used toplay in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes_I_wonder,_though,_what_changes_another_drought_would_make_in_the_way_things_are_today.

1.How did the writer feel when he saw thefence and bulldozers?

2.Why was the writer told not to go to thepark by his mother?

3.According to the writer, what eventuallybrought about the disappearance of the park?

4.The last sentence of the passage impliesthat if another drought came，________.

试题答案

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.A

【解析】略