Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Dep宝宝洗澡水温
th) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this ction, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.
Questions 47 to 51 are bad on the following passage.
Swiss Re Tower is a typical example of green architecture in London, and what is most remarkable about this building is its energy efficiency. Thanks to its artful design and some fancy technology, it is expected to consume up to 50% less energy than a comparable conventional office building. Green architecture is changing the way building are designed, built and run.
Green architecture, a term which only came into u in the 1990s, has its origins in the energy crisis of the 1970s, when描写夏天的诗词
architects began to question the wisdom of building encl
od glass and steel boxes that required massive heating and cooling systems.
The forward looking architects began to explore designs that focud on the long term environmental impact of maintaining and operating a building. This approach has since been formalized in a number of asssment and 科技主题绘画
rating systems, such as the BREEAM standard introduced in Britain in 1990, and the LEED standard developed by the United States Green Building Council starting in 2000.
Going green saves money by reducing long term energy costs; a survey of 99 green buildings in America found that on average, they u 30% less energy than comparably conventional buildings.
Green buildings can also have other benefits. The u of natural daylight in office buildings, for example, as well as reducing energy costs, also ems to make workers more productive. Lockheed Martin, an aerospace(航空宇宙) firm, found that abnteeism(旷工) fell by 15% after it moved 2 500 employees into a new green building in Sunnyvale, California.
47. Owing to its delicate design and advanced technology, Swiss Re Tower in London us less energy than tho traditional office buildings by .
48. Green architecture could date back to .
49. Today, when asssing and rating architecture, the long term environmental effect in the maintenance of the building has been .
50. Green architectures can reduce expenditure on the maintenance by .
51. Besides the benefit of saving money, green buildings can also bring .
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this ction. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are bad on the following passage.
Television is often viewed as an anti intellectual medium. But truly clever people know how to u even the most unpromising material, and that is what Val Curtis and her colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have done. They employed the mass market appeal of TV to test a long held, but unproven, hypothesis(假设): that the emotio葱烧木耳
n of disgust evolved to protect people from dia.
They t up their experiment in October 2007, by publicizing it on a BBC program called "Human Instincts". Viewers were invited to visit a website and, after giving a few biographical(个人介绍的)details, to view a ries of 20 pictures and rate each of them for disgustingness on a scale of one to five. They were also asked to choo, from a list of possible candidates, with whom they would least like to share a toothbrush.
The results showed that in all ven pairs, the dia distinct pictures were more disgu
sting than their counterparts. For things like the apparent depiction of bodily fluids, or of a face that had been "enhanced" with spots, that may come as no surpri. But a crowded railway carriage was more distinguishing than an empty one, and a lou more disgusting than a wasp.
The last results confirmed Dr Curtis's suspicion that disgust is not, as many disgust rearchers believe, just a way of avoiding eating dia bearing materials. Rather, it extends to threats that might be contagious(传染性的). Indeed, one result of the study was to show that the young are easier to disgust than the old. Another result was that women are more easily disgusted than men. Both of the make evolutionary n. The young have more reproductive potential than the old, so should be more careful about what they touch and eat. And women are usually burdened with bringing up the children, so have to be disgusted on their offspring's behalf, as well as their own.
