题目内容
17.Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy,but this one is clean and cool.Fox Point is a very new 47-unit living building in South Bronx,one of the city's poorest areas.Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly homeless people,whose rent is paid by the government.The rest are low-income families.The boiler room has special equipment,which produces energy for electricity and heat.It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air,reducing carbon emissions while also cutting costs.Fox Point is operated by Palladia,a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy people.Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP),which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy,environmentally clever and affordable homes which are called the Green Communities Standards.These standards include water keeping,energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials.Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%,which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael Bloomberg,New York's mayor,plans to create 165,000affordable housing units for 500,000New Yorkers.Almost 80% of New York City's greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings,and 40% of those are caused by housing.So he recently announced that the city's Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD),whose duty is to develop and keep the city's supply of affordable housing,will require all its new projects to follow ECP's green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities,such as Cleveland and Denver,but New York's DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
56.What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?C
A.To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.
B.To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C.To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D.To compare old and new boiler rooms.
57.What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?A
A.Lower running costs.
B.Costing less in construction.
C.Less air to be lost in hot days.
D.Better prices for homeless people.
58.It can be learned from the text thatB.
A.New York City is seriously polluted
B.people's daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City
C.a great number of people in New York City don't have houses to live in
D.some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City
59.What is the main purpose of this text?D
A.To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B.To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C.To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D.To introduce healthy,environmentally clever and affordable housing.
分析 本文是一篇广告布告类阅读,文章主要介绍了美国绿色环保的"经济适用房".ECP向住房开发商提供支持以帮助建造"经济房".ECP制订了一套"绿色社区标准",包括节水、节能以及环保建筑材料的使用.全美最大的"经济房"开发商------纽约的DHPD将遵循这套标准.
解答 56-59 CABD
56.C推理判断题.第一段指出新boiler room的优点:重复使用热能,以免热能流失,从而减少排放、减低成本,从而引出本文的主要话题,即环保型建筑;根据第一段最后两句,作者描述开水房仅是从一个侧面展示整个建筑群的节能,环保.因而本段应是点明该建筑的工作原理,故选C.
57.A细节理解题.根据第三段Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%,which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.可知达到这一标准会将建筑成本提高2%,但很快会被它的低成本运行成本补回.故选A.
58.B推理判断题.由第四段可知,纽约市80%的温室气体排放是来自各种建筑物,而这其中40%是由于住房造成的.故可推断出B项"在纽约市,人们的日常生活导致了许多温室气体的排放".故选B.
59.D主旨大意题.全文介绍了一些环保经济房的功能、环保经济房必须达到的建筑标准及其实际执行情况.所以文章讨论的是技术问题,而非社会问题,排除A,B,C三项.故选D.
点评 阅读这类文章时,也应该在整体把握文章结构的前提下,主要注意细节信息.细节题题干都是相应原文的变形(如同义改写、词性转换等),因此要找到答案一定要找到题干在原文中的出处,再把原文和选项相比较.做题时,根据所提问题用寻读、跳读的方法可达到事半功倍的效果.
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