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【題目】Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to get rid of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus (校園) of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problem — how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the campus’s six buildings comfortable.

Some parts of most modem buildings — theaters and offices as well as classrooms, are more sufficiently heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned (使用空調(diào)的) even in winter. The technique of saving heat and redistributing (再分配) it is called “heat recovery”. A few modern buildings recover heat, but the University’s system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it in others.

Along the way, Pittsburgh has learned a great deal about some of its producers. The harder a student studies, the more heat his body gives off. Male students send out more heat than female students, and the larger a student is, the more heat he produces. We may conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard working overweight mate genius.

【1】The heat in the heating system of the Johnstown campus is supplied ________.

A. by human bodies

B. by both human bodies and other heat-giving objects

C. by both human bodies and commonly used fuel

D. by human bodies, commonly used fuel and other heat-giving objects

【2】According to the passage, the technique of heat recovery is used ________.

A. to find the producers of heat

B. to provide heat for the hot water system

C. to make the campus more beautiful

D. to collect heat and reuse it

【3】The underlined phrase “the hottest prospect” in this passage refers to ________.

A. the person who suffers most from heat

B. the person who needs more heat than others

C. the person who gives off most heat

D. the person who makes better use of heat

【4】Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?

A. A New Heat Recovery System in Pitt

B. Modern Building’s Heat System

C. Body Heat and Its Producers

D. Ways of Heating Building

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】本文是一篇說明文。主要介紹了Pittsburgh大學(xué)通過收集人體以及其他物體釋放出的熱量，并將收集到的熱量進(jìn)行再分配來對建筑進(jìn)行供暖的技術(shù)。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well.可知，這種收集系統(tǒng)不僅使用人體的熱量，還使用由像燈泡和冰箱這種物體釋放出的熱量。故選B。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段The technique of saving heat and redistributing (再分配) it is called “heat recovery”可知，“熱回收”這種技術(shù)是儲存熱量，然后在重新分配熱量。故選D。

【3】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)最后一段We may conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard working overweight mate genius.可知，前文對釋放熱量多的特征進(jìn)行了說明，所以我們可下結(jié)論，Johnstown校園的the hottest prospect將是個勤奮學(xué)習(xí)、身材臃腫的男性天才，由此可知the hottest prospect的意思是“釋放最多熱量的人”。故選C。

【4】主旨大意題。根據(jù)全文可知，通篇文章都是在介紹Pittsburgh大學(xué)的一種“熱回收”系統(tǒng)，這種系統(tǒng)可以收集人體以及其他物體釋放出的熱量，然后將這種熱量重新分配用于建筑的供暖。A項“Pittsburgh大學(xué)的新型熱回收系統(tǒng)”最適合作文章題目。故選A。