2014高考英语二轮领航夺分专题复习课时作业：阅读理解容易“顾此失彼”的“mainidea”型主旨大意题（湖北专版，含2013调研、真题，含解析）（www.ks5u.com2014高考）.docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 6 课时作业(二十一) 第二讲　容易“顾此失彼”的“main idea”型主旨大意题 Test 1 (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 pioneer-style log cabins. The recent completion of an eight-storey wooden office block in Austria and a nine-storey 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 off-site 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. Nabih Tahan，an architect，said：“We want to make buildings like car companies make cars，or computer companies make computers，using an industrial process and a system’s approach.To get good performance out of buildings，you can’t keep making them wildly piece by piece on site，cutting things in the rain.You need to design them right and have a step-by-step organized process.” British architects Waugh Thistleton calculated that they avoided producing nearly 125 tons of carbon dioxide in building what is so far the world’s tallest modern wood structure，the nine-storey Stadthaus building. Architects are now competing to build everhigher，evergreener wooden buildings.Already construction has begun on a 10-floor residential block made from CLT in Melbourne，Australia.However，building regulations threaten to nip the growth of wooden structures in the bud. Many countries restrict the maximum height of wooden buildings.In Russia the limit is just f