首页
财务会计
医药卫生
金融经济
考公考编
外语考试
学历提升
职称考试
建筑工程
IT考试
其他
登录
金融经济
In the late l960s.many people in North America turned their attention to envi...
In the late l960s.many people in North America turned their attention to envi...
admin
2020-12-24
63
问题
In the late l960s.many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems,and new steel-and-glass skyscraper,5 were widely criticized.Ecologists pointed out that acluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.
Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers,and wasters,of electric power.In one recent year.The addition of l7 million square feet of skyscraper omce space in New York City raised the peak daib demand for electricity by l20,000 kilowatts--enough tO supply the entire city of Albany,New York,for a day.
Glass·walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful.The heat loss(or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insula.tion board.To lessen the strain on heating and air conditioning equipment,builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double glazed panels of glass,and reflective glasses coated with siNer or gold
mirror films that reduce glare aS well as heat gain.However,mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.
Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city’S sanitation facilities,t00.If fully occupied,the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage each year--as much as a city the size of Stamford, Connecticut, which has a population ofmore than 109,000.
Skyscrapers also interfere with television reception, block bird flyways, and obstruct air traffic.
In Boston in the late 1960s, some people even feared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.
Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built them-personal ambition, civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.
According to the passage, which aspect of skyscrapers was some residents of Boston concerned with in the late 1960s? ( )
选项
A. The poor reception of radio and TV signals.
B. The removal of trees and grass from building sites.
C. The harmful effects on the city's plants.
D. The obstruction of air traffic.
答案
C
解析
细节理解题。文章倒数第二段的最后一句谈到了这一点:"In Boston in the late l960’s,some people even feared that shadOWS from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.”波士顿有些居民害怕摩天大楼的阴影会杀死青草.即他们担心摩天大楼会对城市的植物造成有害的影响。
转载请注明原文地址:https://ti.zuoweng.com/ti/pYR8KKKQ
相关试题推荐
TherearemuchmanymorepeoplethanIexpected.A.ThereB.muchC.manyD.than
Manypeoplebelieveweareheadingforanenvironmentaldisaster(灾难)______...
Manypeoplebelievetheglarefromsnowcausessnow-blindness.Yet,darkglas...
Manypeoplebelievetheglarefromsnowcausessnow-blindness.Yet,darkglas...
Manypeoplebelievetheglarefromsnowcausessnow-blindness.Yet,darkglas...
Manypeoplebelievetheglarefromsnowcausessnow-blindness.Yet,darkglas...
第49题答案是__________A.handedB.lentC.returnedD.threw
第44题答案是__________A.arrivedB.turnedC.touredD.moved
Agoodadvertisementoftenuseswords__________peopleattachpositivemeanings.A
IfAmericanpeopleborrowmoneyfromthebankfor25years,thismeansthatth...
随机试题
下列世界文化遗产与其所在地对应一致的是()。 A.大足石刻——云南B.龙门
下列急性胎儿窘迫的临床表现错误的是
属于用化学法制备微囊的方法是
伤寒病属于() A.变质性炎症 B.浆液性炎症 C.增生性炎症 D.化脓
简述宣告死亡的概念和条件。
航空情报质量管理制度应当包括航空情报工作各阶段实施质量管理所需的资源、程序和方法等,确保航空情报的()。A.可追溯性B.可持续性C.精确性D.清晰性E
假设某公司需要对A、B两个投资项目进行决策,现金流量及相关资料如下表: 注:(1)假设项目A与项目B都具有相同的风险;(2)假定现金流量均在年末发生...
这是一次美工活动。孩子们试着用各种盒子和彩色纸制作玩具。几个设计简单的孩子先做好了,而设计得比较复杂的孩子甚至连一半也没做完。这时,教师请大家注意听做好的...
患者,男,38岁。头晕耳鸣,腰膝软弱,四肢不温,阳痿滑精,小便频数,舌质淡,脉沉迟无力。治疗应首选的药物是A:杜仲B:鹿茸C:续断D:仙茅E:锁阳
共用题干 一般资料:求助者,女性,66岁,某工厂退休职工。案例介绍:求助者一年前睡觉时突然憋醒,胸闷气短,觉得自己马上就不行了,送入急诊后诊断为呼吸暂停...