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The behavior of a building’s users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new rese

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问题    The behavior of a building’s users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放) by 80 percent by 2050 part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zero-carbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its own—though extremely important—is not enough to achieve such reductions: the behavior of the people using the building has to change too.
   The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率) , which instead focus on architectural and technological developments.
   " Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything, " explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher, consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design. "In other words, old habits die hard, even in the best-designed eco-home. "
   Another part of the problem is information. Households and bill-payers don’t have the knowledge they need to change their energy-use habits. Without specific information, it’s hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反馈) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors, could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behavior directly affects their energy use: some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.
   Social science research has added a further dimension (方面) , suggesting that individuals behavior in the home can be personal and cannot be predicted—whether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒温器) , for example. Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behavior in them.
What are Katy Janda’s words mainly about?
选项 A、The importance of changing building users’ habits.
B、The necessity of making a careful building design.
C、The variety of consumption patterns of building users.
D、The role of technology in improving energy efficiency.
答案A
解析 推理题。根据文章第三段Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything，和consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design…．the best-designed eco-home．Katy Janda认为房屋使用者的习惯很重要。
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