Question

【题目】阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

With limited space for parks and gardens, architects and city planners often find it challenging to include greenery in neighborhoods in cities. One creative solution is to grow plants on unused areas like walls and rooftops. It’s a popular idea, and now rooftop gardens and green walls have been sprouting up（大量冒出） in cities around the world.

There are many benefits of having green spaces to the urban landscape. Adding gardens to rooftops or walls can create a pleasant environment — what was once a gray cement（水泥） wall can become a colorful, blooming garden. The CaxiaForum art gallery in Madrid, Spain, is a famous example — one of its walls is covered with 15,000 plants from over 250 different species. In other cities, green walls are being used more functionally, to cover up construction sites and empty buildings and to decorate the lobbies of office buildings.

Using plants to cover walls and rooftops can also keep cities cooler in the summer. Buildings and roads absorb the sun’s heat and hold it, causing a building or neighborhood to stay warmer longer. Plants, on the other hand, provide an enormous amount of shade. There is evidence that growing a roof or wall garden can lower a building’s energy costs.

In New York City, public schools plant rooftop gardens that can reduce heating and cooling costs. In addition to saving the school money, teachers and parents love the gardens because of their educational value — it’s a fun and healthy way for their kids to investigate the world around them. “For the children, it’s exciting when you grow something edible（可食用的）,” said Lauren Fontana, principal of a New York public school.

Rooftop gardens and green walls may require a bit more effort to grow and maintain. However, hard work always brings rewards, and with green spaces, the rewards are plentiful.

Answer 1

【答案】One Possible Version:

Due to the limited space in cities, rooftop gardens and green walls have emerged.（要点1）One benefit of adding green to rooftops and walls is to offer an agreeable surroundings.（要点2）Besides, shade can be created to make cities stay cooler longer, thus reducing the costs in energy.（要点3）What’s more, green gardens in school bear educational value of children’s exploring the world.（要点4）Though hard to maintain, green spaces in cities ensure abundant rewards.（要点5）

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【解析】1. 文章第一段就是本篇文章的主题句，亮明了总的观点：With limited space for parks and gardens, architects and city planners often find it challenging to include greenery in neighborhoods in cities.再结合本段最后一句得出Due to the limited space in cities, rooftop gardens and green walls have emerged.（要点1）

2．第二段主要首句“There are many benefits of having green spaces to the urban landscape.”可知有许多benefits.接下来本段中的第一个benefit就是“ Adding gardens to rooftops or walls can create a pleasant environment”因为不能用原句所以用offer换了 create ，用an agreeable surroundings替代了a pleasant environment，故形成了第2个要点One benefit of adding green to rooftops and walls is to offer an agreeable surroundings.（要点2）

3.第三段首句“Using plants to cover walls and rooftops can also keep cities cooler in the summer.”是要点。再加上最后一句“...can lower a building’s energy costs”,重新转述为要点3：“shade can be created to make cities stay cooler longer, thus reducing the costs in energy. （要点3）”

4.第四段第二句话点明了本段主要大意，再结合下文“teachers and parents love the gardens because of their educational value — it’s a fun and healthy way for their kids to investigate the world around them.”，略去细节得出“green gardens in school bear educational value of children’s exploring the world. （要点4）”

5.第五段最后一句点出“However, hard work always brings rewards, and with green spaces, the rewards are plentiful.” 改写时用“abundant”换了同义词“plentiful”从而形成了“Though hard to maintain, green spaces in cities ensure abundant rewards.（要点5）”

6.最后用连词按顺序把文章贯通起来，形成一篇文章。

亮点：文章对原文要点的理解和呈现情况比较好，按照事件的顺序展开，用几个简洁的句子把文章内容表达的非常清晰完整。文章中使用了很好的短语和句子给文章增色。