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主旨大意At Warren Wilson College, a biological science school with fewer than 1,000 students, the sustainability drive came from the student body. The EcoDorm concept was presented ten years ago by two students; a planning committee firstly suggested using building materials like corncob. Although the architects disagreed with the idea, they came up with other creative solutions: Wood siding was taken from the trees grown in the school yard that were suffering from a disease, and rainwater was collected in an old railway car and pumped back into the house to clean the toilets. The paragraph is mainly about ______.A. where the EcoDorm was builtB. when the EcoDorm got its nameC. what the EcoDorm is made ofD. how the concept of EcoDorm started【解析】D主旨大意题。从本段的第一、二句：…the sustainability drive came from the student body. The EcoDorm concept was presented ten years ago by two students…可知这段讲的是EcoDorm 的概念是怎么开始的，故选D。Snapshots, the new fashion for an artistic portrait(肖像) photo: Take it underwater. Zhang Xiaomei, a 20 something Shanghai native who works in the media industry, tried it out twice.“It was a completely different experience,” says Zhang of her first such experience last May. “You get the feeling that you’re cut off from the rest of the world. But also it’s romantic and like a fairy tale.”She then successfully convinced her husband to be to have their wedding photos taken underwater a couple of months after her first try. “Can you imagine a 1.87-meter-tall man trying out something like a fishtail under the water?” Zhang says, laughing.“A commercial underwater photo portrait is perfect for post 80 and post 90 generations who adore taking snapshots, but are looking for new ways to be artistic,” says Ai Cheng, owner and photographer of No. 55 Underwater Photography in Shanghai.Ai opened a studio in Shanghai’s suburb of Songjiang two years ago, building a 5-meter-deep, fan-shaped pool equipped with heating facilities to start up the business. A 30-minute training on how to sm