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The story of Orlando’s stunning transformation from swamp and sinkhole to a metropolis began, inevitably, with
Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Disney first flew over central Florida in an airplane on the fateful day of November 22,
1963. The Kennedy assassination would mark America forever. So would the decision Walt Disney made that day to turn
an inland Florida agricultural center into an epicenter of world tourism.
Disney chose Orlando first because it was at the confluence of two of the most important thoroughfares, what today
are Interstate 4 and Florida’s Turnpike. Moreover, since Walt Disney’s original theme park—Disneyland, in southern
California—covered fewer than 300 acres and was soon ringed with the suburban blight that its success inevitably
attracted—motels, strip malls, and copycat amusement parks, Disney hoped to rectify in Florida his mistake of not
making Disneyland big enough. He set out to create a new, bigger, better Magic Kingdom. Here, arriving visitors would
not be permitted to choose their own parking spaces; smiling Disney characters would do that for them. Besides, water in
this Magic Kingdom could not be the tannic brown common in central Florida. So Bay Lake was drained, the sludge
removed, and clear water pumped into the resulting lagoon. Even dry land would be turned into another Disney illusion:
As you traverse the theme park, you are actually walking on the roof of an immense, underground control building from
which the operation is run, staffed, and supplied.
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【題組】43 According to the article, why did Walt Disney build a theme park in Orlando?
(A) Orlando had a tradition of tourism. (B) Orlando was famous for its clear water.
(C) Orlando was a metropolis in the 1960s. (D) Orlando was a meeting point of highways.
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