10.Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy,but this one is el.ean and cool.Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx,one of the city's poorest areas.Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) 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(碳排放)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 (环境方面) 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 for500,000New 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.
45.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.
46.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.
47.It can be learned from the text that,B
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
48.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 本文属于议论文阅读,主要介绍了美国绿色环保的"经济适用房".企业社区合作伙伴(ECP)住房开发商提供支持以帮助建造"经济房",并制订了一套"绿色社区标准",包括节水、节能以及环保建筑材料的使用,而全美最大的"经济房"开发商------纽约的DHPD也将遵循这套标准.
解答 45.C 推理判断题,根据第一段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(碳排放)while also cutting costs.可知新的锅炉房由于装备了为发电和供暖提供能源的特殊设备而一改以往脏和潮湿的形象.作者提及锅炉房旨在说明新型建筑的功能:重复使用热能,以免热能流失,从而减少排放、减低成本.故选A.
46.A 推理判断题,由文章第三段Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%,which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.可知要合乎ECP"绿色社区标准",建筑成本将会增加2%,但是会从房屋运营成本的降低中得到补偿.因此A正确;误解分析:通读全文可知B项明显与文章不符;C项指的是锅炉房(boiler room)的情况;而从第一段可知,无家可归者住房由政府支付房租,排除D项.故选A.
47.B 细节理解题,根据第四段Almost 80% of New York City's greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings,and 40% of those are caused by housing.可知建筑排放的温室气体的40%来自于居家,故选B.
48.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,故选D.
点评 做阅读理解时要快速的浏览全文,把握文章主旨大意,带着问题回到原文,寻找细节或概括相应的答案,最后要理清作者写作思路.