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  3. An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar panels. They are used to create some of the energy

An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar panels. They are used to create some of the energy

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问题     An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar panels. They are used to create some of the energy used by the insurance company inside. When the tower was first【C1】________in 1962, it was covered with thin square stones. These small square stones became a problem for the building and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovation was【C2】________During this renovation the building’s owners, CIS,【C3】________the solar panel company, Solarcentury. They agreed to cover the entire building in solar panels.   In 2004,the completed CIS tower became Europe’s largest【C4】________of vertical solar panels.  A vertical solar project on such a large【C5】________has never been repeated since.
    Covering a skyscraper with solar panels had never been done before, and the CIS tower was chosen as one of the "10 best green energy projects". For a long time after this renovation project, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom, but it was【C6】________overtaken by the Millbank Tower.
    Green buildings like this aren’t【C7】________cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy【C8】________through fossil fuels. As solar panels get【C9】________the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collecting energy much like trees do. Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn’t a race of【C10】________, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.
    A)  cheaper        F) consulted      K) necessarily
    B)  cleaner        G) dimension      L) production
    C)  collection     H) discovered     M) range
    D)  competed       I) eventually     N) scale
    E)  constructed    J) height         O) undertaken
【C4】
选项
答案C
解析 空格前为系动词became和形容词的最高级largest，空格后为介词短语，因此空格处应填入名词，作表语的中心词。本句指出，2004年，完工后的英国合作社保险公司大楼成为欧洲最大的垂直太阳能电池板________。由上一句可知，整幢大楼的外墙都是太阳能电池板，因此本空应填入含有“拥有”意义的名词。备选名词中，只有C)collection有“收集的东西”的含义，因此得出答案为C)。
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