第二讲 容易“顾此失彼”的“main idea”型主旨大意题
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(2013·湖北省鄂西示范校高中毕业班质量检查)
Anyone who’s heard the story of the three little pigs might have some reservations about the use of wood as a building material.
But architects and engineers are reusing wood as a quick and ecofriendly solution to modern construction—and not just for pioneerstyle log cabins.
The recent completion of an eightstorey wooden office block in Austria and a ninestorey housing block in London shows how the “wooden building” is fast becoming a reality.The LCT One building is a building made from both wood and concrete and designed by Austrian architectural firm Cree.
Cree claims that building the glulam (胶合层木) elements of the building offsite in advance cuts construction time by half,guarantees quality and reduces the buildings carbon footprint.Concrete gives off nearly its own weight in carbon dioxide as it’s produced;the raw material for wooden skyscrapers,by contrast,literally grows on trees and absorbs carbon from the air as it does so.