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There is a tale that straw (稻草) is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry w
There is a tale that straw (稻草) is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry w
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2019-05-23
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There is a tale that straw (稻草) is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry wolf around. So the cards were stacked against Warren Brush when local officials learned that he had several buildings made of straw bales (大捆) on his land.
They have tried to fine him a lot. But the case is still unresolved. The problem is that California’s building codes make no provision for the use of straw. And Mr. Brush has many defenders—among them several university scientists and David Eisenberg, the chairman of the United States Green Building Council’s code committee. They would like to see the prejudice against straw houses
eliminated
, for straw is, in many ways, an ideal building material.
It is, for one thing, a great insulator(绝热体). That keeps down the healting bills houses made from it. It is also a waste product that would otherwise be burned, and is therefore cheap. And—very much to the point in a place like California—it is earthquake-resistant. Last year a test conducted at the University of Nevada showed that straw-bale constructions could withstand twice the amount of ground motion recorded in the Northbridge earthquake that hit Los Angeles in 1994.
There are other straws in the wind: a post office in suburban Albuquerque, a school in Maryland, and on office complex in suburban Los Angeles have all been built from straw. Even California is having a rethink, and may change its rules to adapt to straw-bale construction. As Mr. Eisenberg observes, "The lesson of the Three Little Pigs isn’t to avoid straw. It’s that you don’t let a pig build your house. "
The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to______.
选项
A、show that straw cannot be used to build houses
B、to explain how to build a house with straw
C、describe the prejudice against straw houses
D、introduce a new building material
答案
D
解析
A项表述错误,稻草是可以建造房屋的。B项是臆造选项,文章并没有介绍如何用稻草建造房屋。C项错误,作者写作目的并不是为了描述人们对于稻草作为建筑材料的偏见,而是为了说明稻草可以作为一种新型建筑材料。文章通篇都在介绍稻草这种建筑材料,因此正确答案为D。
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