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【題目】 Fresh green grass. Hundreds of colorful wild flowers. Water running into little pools. Birds making their homes in boxes. The 9, 500-square-metre Augustenborg Botanical Garden may look just like any other well-organized park but there’s a difference. It lies on the roofs(屋頂) of industrial and office buildings in the city of Malmo in Sweden.

Green roofs are not a new invention. And now they are getting popular again. The common roofs of a modem city have endless black surfaces with no life or water. Perhaps that’s why a garden on a roof becomes such a perfect choice for more and more people.

Green roofs are not just pretty. They also help to moderate the city temperature. The high temperatures on common roofs in the summer can make top floor flats uncomfortably hot. What is more, they play a part in making the cities hotter than the countryside around them, causing the “urban heat-island effect”. On a green roof, however, with its plants and water, temperatures change only a little, as they do in a park. This can greatly cut the costs of heating and cooling in the building below.

Also, a green roof takes in rain water, and protects the city drainage(排水) system. ____ And small animals and birds can make their homes on it. Thanks to this, the city may become part of nature, rather than something completely separate from it.

While the cost of building such a roof can still be higher, it can be cheaper in the long term as a result of energy savings. And wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to walk out into a garden high above the city’s noise and traffic, whether you're at school or in an office or just at home in a ten-floor block.

【1】With the example of Augustenborg Botanical Garden, the writer wants to explain ____.

A. how wildlife is protectedB. what a green roof is like

C. how to organize a good parkD. what to do with a spare roof

【2】The underlined word “moderate” in Paragraph 3 is the closest in meaning to “____”.

A. raiseB. checkC. recordD. control

【3】Which of the following is the best sentence to fill in the blank in Paragraph 4?

A. A green roof is alive.B. A green roof stops pollution.

C. A common roof is noisy.D. A common roof increases the cost.

【4】The purpose of the passage is to ____.

A. discover the problems with green roofsB. introduce the change of green roofs

C. show the amazing beauty of green roofsD. describe the advantages of green roofs

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】D

【解析】

本文以?shī)W古斯登堡植物園為例介紹了什么是綠色屋頂以及綠色屋頂?shù)暮锰帯＞G色屋頂不只是漂亮。它們也有助于調(diào)節(jié)城市溫度。此外，綠色屋頂吸收雨水，保護(hù)城市排水系統(tǒng)。綠色屋頂充滿生機(jī)，使這座城市成為自然的一部分。

【1】考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段的描述“新鮮的青草。數(shù)百朵五顏六色的野花水流入小水池。鳥在盒子里安家。這座面積為9500平方米的奧古斯登堡植物園看起來可能和其他組織良好的公園一樣，但也有不同之處。它位于瑞典馬爾默市工業(yè)和辦公樓的屋頂上�！笨芍�“以?shī)W古斯登堡植物園為例，作者想解釋一下綠色屋頂是什么樣的�！惫蔬xB。

【2】考查詞義猜測(cè)。A. raise升高，籌集；B. check檢查；C. record記錄 D. control控制，調(diào)節(jié)。根據(jù)下文的描述可知“夏天普通屋頂上的高溫會(huì)使頂層的公寓變得異常炎熱。更重要的是，它們使城市比周圍的鄉(xiāng)村更熱，造成了“城市熱島效應(yīng)”。然而，在有植物和水的綠色屋頂上，氣溫變化很小，就像在公園里一樣。這可以大大降低下面建筑的供暖和制冷成本�！笨芍�此句They also help to moderate the city temperature.句意是：它們也有助于調(diào)節(jié)城市溫度。根據(jù)句意可知moderate意思是控制，調(diào)節(jié)；故選D。

【3】考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)下文And small animals and birds can make their homes on it.（小動(dòng)物和小鳥可以在上面安家。）可知此句是：綠色屋頂充滿生機(jī)。故選A。

【4】考查主旨理解。本文以?shī)W古斯登堡植物園為例介紹了什么是綠色屋頂以及綠色屋頂?shù)暮锰�。綠色屋頂不只是漂亮。它們也有助于調(diào)節(jié)城市溫度。此外，綠色屋頂吸收雨水，保護(hù)城市排水系統(tǒng)。綠色屋頂充滿生機(jī)，使這座城市成為自然的一部分。根據(jù)本文主要內(nèi)容可知這篇文章的目的是描述綠色屋頂?shù)膬?yōu)點(diǎn)；故選D。