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蒙肯纸 职称英语卫生C 新思维 简明英汉词典 第5版 阅读理解 阅读理解阅读下面的短文。每篇短文的后面有五个问题，每个问题有四个备选答案。请根据短文的内容选择最佳答案。 第四十三篇 Can Buildings Be Designed to Resist Terrorist Attack In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center,structural engineers aretrying hard to solve a question that a month ago would have been completely unthinkable:Canbuilding be designed to withstand catastrophic blasts inflicted by terrorists? Ten days after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers,structural engineers from the Universityat Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)headquartered at UB traveled to ground zer02 as part of a project funded by the National ScienceFoundation. Visiting the site as part of an MCEER reconnaissance visit, they spent two daysbeginning the task of formulating ideas about how to design such structures and searching for clueson how to do so in buildings t at were damaged,but still are standing3. Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding theWorld Trade Center,those buildings that are still standing,but that sustained damage4, said M. Bruneau,Ph. D. Our immediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as to why thosebuildings remain standing, while our long-term goal is to see whether earthquake engineeringtechnologies can be married to existing technologies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings6in the event of terrorist attacks. he added. Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate in startling detail the monumental damageinflicted on the World Trade Center towers and buildings in the vicinity. One building a block awayfrom the towers remains standing,but was badly damaged. This building is many meters away.fromthe World Trade Center and yet we see a column there that used to be part of that building,explained A. Whittaker,Ph. D. The column became a missile that shot across the road,through thewindow and through the floor. The visit to the area also revealed