首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks. It was blown away by a huffing, puffing wolf, which promptly
The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks. It was blown away by a huffing, puffing wolf, which promptly
admin
2022-08-22
32
问题
The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks. It was blown away by a huffing, puffing wolf, which promptly gobbled him up. His brother, by contrast, built a wolf- proof house from bricks. The fairy tale could have been written by a
flack
for the construction industry, which strongly favours brick, concrete and steel. However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.
In 2015 world leaders meeting in Paris agreed to move towards zero net greenhouse-gas emissions in the second half of this century. That is a
tall order
, and the building industry makes it even taller. Cement-making alone produces 6% of the world’s carbon emissions. Steel, half of which goes into buildings, accounts for another 8%. If you factor in all of the energy that goes into lighting, heating and cooling homes and offices, the world’s buildings start to look like a giant environmental problem.
Governments in the rich world are now trying to promote greener behaviour by obliging developers to build new projects to "zero carbon" standards. From January 1st 2019 all new public-sector buildings in the European Union must be built to "nearly zero-energy" standards. All other types of buildings will follow in January 2021. Governments in eight further countries are being lobbied to introduce a similar policy.
These standards are less green than they seem. Wind turbines and solar panels on top of buildings look good but are much less productive than wind and solar farms. And the standards only count the emissions from running a building, not those belched out when it was made.
Those
are thought to account for between 30% and 60% of the total over a structure’s lifetime.
Buildings can become greener. They can use more recycled steel and can be prefabricated in off-site factories, greatly reducing lorry journeys. But no other building material has environmental credentials as exciting and overlooked as wood.
The energy required to produce a laminated wooden beam is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing, wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. When a mature tree is cut down, a new one can be planted to replace it, capturing more carbon. After buildings are demolished, old beams and panels are easy to recycle into new structures. And for retrofitting older buildings to be more energy efficient, wood is a good insulator. A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminum equivalent.
A race is on to build the world’s tallest fully wooden skyscraper. But such edifices are still uncommon. Industry fragmentation, vicious competition for contracts and low profit margins mean that most building firms have little money to invest in greener construction methods beyond what regulation dictates.
Governments can help nudge the industry to use more wood, particularly in the public sector—the construction industry’s biggest client. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be altered to take account of the emissions that are embodied in materials. This would favour wood as well as innovative ways of producing other materials.
Construction codes could be tweaked to make building with wood easier. Here the direction of travel is wrong. Britain, for instance, is banning the use of timber on the outside of tall buildings after 72 people died in a tower fire in London in 2017. That is a nonsense.
Grenfell Tower was covered in aluminum and plastic, not wood. Modern cross-laminated timber panels perform better in fire tests than steel ones do.
Carpentry alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world’s buildings into line. But using wood can do much more than is appreciated. The second little pig was not wrong, just before his time.
(选自《经济学人》2019年1月5日)
The author’s attitude towards banning the use of timber after the tower fire in London is________.
选项
A、approval
B、disapproval
C、detached
D、shocked
答案
B
解析
态度题。第9段第4句That is a nonsense,表明了作者的态度,故选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/k10O777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI二级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI二级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
MalecircumcisionmayhelppreventthespreadofHIV.
ThanksgivingDayiscelebratedwithalotof【C1】______andmerry-makinginAmerica.CelebratedonthefourthThursdayinthe
Thetrucksareequippedwithanadvancedcamerasystemtoensuresafety.
Dogsunderstandthefeelingsoftheirowners.
自20世纪90年代以来,中国政府积极探索借鉴国际反贫困经验,不断扩大与国际组织在扶贫领域的合作,并有了明显进展。在扶贫领域,世界银行与中国的合作最早,投入规模最大。世界银行与中国目前已经开展的西南、秦巴、西部三期扶贫贷款项目,援助总规模达6.1亿
WhenLiamMcGeedepartedaspresidentofBankofAmericainAugust,hisexplanationwassurprisinglystraightup.Ratherthancl
StudentswhowanttoentertheUniversityofMontreal’sAthleticComplexneedmoremanjustaconventionalIDcard—theiridentit
Myentirelifehasbeenlivedinthehealthyareabetweentoolittleandtoomuch.I’veneverexperiencedfinancialoremotional
Therecentconferenceontheeffectiveuseoftheseasandoceanswasanotherattemptresolvingmajordifferencesamongcountrie
TheSenseofHumorBiologically,thereisonlyonequalitywhichdistinguishesusfromanimals;theabilitytolaugh.Inaun
随机试题
留置权的产生基于合同当事人之间的特别约定。()
A、明胶B、ECC、聚乳酸D、β-CDE、枸橼酸生物可降解性合成高分子囊材
感冒,习惯上分为病毒性感冒和细菌性感冒。细菌性感冒是指因细菌引起的感冒。病毒性感冒有:普通感冒、流行性感冒和病毒性咽炎等。细菌性感冒有:细菌性咽扁桃体炎。其主要不同是致病因素不同,病毒性感冒是由于病毒所致,而细菌性感冒是由于细菌所致。妊娠初
根据有关规章规定,仅适合有投资经验客户的理财产品的起点金额不得低于()万元人民币(或等值外币)。
货币时间价值原则的重要应用之一是()。
儿童在知道“芹菜”、“萝卜和“土豆”等概念之后,再学习“蔬菜”概念,这种学习是()。
下面不属于软件工程过程的4种基本活动
存储1024个24×24点阵的汉字字形码需要的字节数是()。
WhenIchangedmyjob,Ihadto_____toanotherapartment.
A、Customerandsalesman.B、Colleagues.C、Employeeandboss.D、Classmates.B此题询问说话人之间的关系。要注意对话中所用的时态。Jack向Susan祝贺她将被提升为经理,从而成为他的直
最新回复
(
0
)