Question

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 165,000 affordable housing units for 500,000 New 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.

1.What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?

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.

2.What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards? 5

A. Lower running costs.    

B. Costing less in construction.   

C. Less air to be lost in hot days.

D. Better prices for homeless people.

3.It can be learned from the text that        .

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

4.What is the main purpose of this text?

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.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：

本文介紹了美國綠色環(huán)保的“經(jīng)濟(jì)適用房”。ECP向住房開發(fā)商提供支持以幫助建造“經(jīng)濟(jì)房”。ECP制訂了一套“綠色社區(qū)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)”，包括節(jié)水、節(jié)能以及環(huán)保建筑材料的使用。全美最大的“經(jīng)濟(jì)房”開發(fā)商------紐約的DHPD將遵循這套標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。

1.新的boiler room由于裝備了為發(fā)電和供暖提供能源的特殊設(shè)備而一改以往“dirty and steamy”的形象。作者提及boiler room 旨在說明新型建筑的功能：新的boiler room重復(fù)使用熱能，以免熱能流失，從而減少排放、減低成本。為引起下文服務(wù)。故選擇C項。

2.由文章第三段Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.一句可知，要合乎ECP“綠色社區(qū)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)”，建筑成本將會增加2%，但是會很快從房屋運營成本的降低中得到補(bǔ)償。B項明顯與文章不符；C項指的是鍋爐房（boiler room）的情況；另從第一段可知，無家可歸者住房由政府支付房租，排除D項。故A項正確。

3.從文章第四段Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused by housing.一句可知，建筑排放的溫室氣體的40%來自居家（housing）。A,C,D三項文中沒有依據(jù)。故B項正確。

4.主旨大意題。全文介紹了一些環(huán)保經(jīng)濟(jì)房的功能、環(huán)保經(jīng)濟(jì)房必須達(dá)到的建筑標(biāo)準(zhǔn)及其實際執(zhí)行情況。所以文章討論的是技術(shù)問題，而非社會問題，排除A,B,C三項。故選擇D項。

考點：說明文。