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
Why does one of the students mention a castle?
Why does one of the students mention a castle?
admin
2018-08-16
95
问题
Why does one of the students mention a castle?
Listen to part of a lecture in an architecture class.
Professor: Ok, so as we’ve consistently seen over the past week, the conventional approach taken by architects is generally to design first then figure out how to make it work. So what I’d like to talk about now is a structure, a facility that totally reverses that mindset. For this project, engineers started out by imposing an energy consumption limit on the facility and architects built all the design plans around that number. In other words, energy considerations determined the design and it did so in ways that are so advanced that the facility really raises the standard for energy efficiency. The building I’m referring to is a research facility in Colorado, the first of its size to achieve the goal of net-zero in the United States meaning it creates as much energy as it uses. Let’s take a look at the basic footprint, just an outline of the foundation to start. So, you see there are two long buildings connected at their centers, forming kind of a crooked ’H’ letter. These aren’t typical buildings, either. As you can see from the footprint they’re long, as well as thin, Can anyone think of a reason why that decision was made?
Student 1: So that there’d be more surface area for solar panels on the roof?
Professor Well, you’re on the right track, yeah! Sure, solar panels were used for this facility. They supply electricity, but you know the shape of the buildings has even more to do with the sun than just that. It was carefully designed to allow an abundance of natural light available throughout the entire facility. First, the architects decided to narrow the width of those rectangular buildings, 50% thinner than the average modern office building, so that light could penetrate through the many windows into the middle of each building and secondly, they consciously positioned the buildings on the site to maximize their exposure to daylight. So the long sides get the most sun.
Student 1: Hmm... sounds good, so lots of light. But from what I’ve read windows are a primary source of both heat loss and heat gain for a building. I mean how can having so many windows be energy efficient?
Professor: Well, the architects used special type of window.
Student 2: You mean insulated windows, the kind with multiple layers of glass and gas between each layer?
Professor: As I mentioned earlier, this facility sets a new benchmark. The technology you mentioned is already outdated. For instance, throughout much of the facility they’ve installed electro-chromic windows. Electro-chromic windows use a single pane of glass that darkens automatically and blocks out the sunlight as the temperature rises and an electric current actually changes the tint. They’re placed where the building’s windows get the most sun.
Student 2: Wow, talk about innovative!
Professor: And it only gets better! You see under each of the buildings, architects designed a broad, shallow basement space that’s kind of like a maze. Air, either from within the building or from the outside, is pulled into the basement space through air ducts and then forced to move slowly around concrete barriers. The air is sort of guided through the maze. Now these concrete barriers, they absorb heat from the air if the air is warm or if the air is cold, the cold is absorbed into the concrete, so it could be either way. Let’s say it’s hot air, hot waste air being pulled in from the computer rooms, say. Well, that air moves slowly back and forth around these barriers. In this particular situation then, the heat from the incoming air is transferred to the concrete, which then holds onto it. Storing the heat until later when it’s slowly released throughout the building. That’s the concept of thermal mass in a nutshell.
Student 2: Ok, so let me try to get this... the air could be hot or cold? So then it’d be like walking into an old stone castle during summertime, lt’s so much cooler inside the castle during the day because the walls had retained the cold from the night air.
Professor: That’s right. It’s precisely the same thing: thermal mass. As a matter of fact, the outer walls of the facility consist of large panels of concrete, nearly a foot thick, for that very reason and they play a huge role in maintaining the temperature of each building.
选项
A、To suggest that there are alternatives to the design being discussed
B、To imply that there could be drawbacks to relying on thermal mass to heat or cool a building
C、To confirm his understanding of the concept of thermal mass
D、To find out whether the buildings’ concrete has better thermal properties than stone has
答案
C
解析
组织结构题。线索词为学生所说So then it’d be like walking into an old stone castle during summertime.学生举例“城堡夏凉”来解释说明“热质量”,以此表明他对热质量这一概念的理解。A选项错误。因为城堡夏凉的原理与本文建筑物的节能原理一样,所以不存在其他节能替代方案。B选项错误,因为本文未探讨热质量的缺点。D选项错误,因为该比较逻辑关系不存在,文中未就混凝土和石头两者展开对比。针对此题,建议大家还是要找好举例信号词,例如:it’s like,imagine,such as,for example等等,通过信号词位置来判定例子说明的上层主题。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/z8fO777K
0
托福(TOEFL)
相关试题推荐
Completetheformbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTWOWORDSAND/ORANUMBERforeachanswer.DurhamCountyCarShowPublicgrandopeni
Whatproblemsdothespeakersidentifyforthisproject?ChooseSEVENanswersfromtheboxandwritetheletters,A-H,nexttoq
Completetheformbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTWOWORDSAND/ORANUMBERforeachanswer.PhoneInterviewName:JohnMurphyExample
Completetheformbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTWOWORDSAND/ORANUMBERforeachanswer.PhoneInterviewName:JohnMurphyExample
Choosethecorrectletter,A,BorC.Howdoesthestudentcomparetheuniversitycoursewithpolytechnics?
WhatTHREEdetailsshouldjobapplicantsknowintheinterview?AworkinghoursBpromotionprospectCsalaryrangeDpensionco
Writethecorrectletter,A-F,nexttoquestions21-26.AVideoResourceCentreBReadingRoomCFoodServiceCentreDPeriodic
Choosethecorrectletter,A,BorC.Beforeyourapplication,youneed
Choosethecorrectletter,A,BorC.WhatdoestheprofessoradviseDouglastodoabouttheformationofthefocusgroups?
NarratorListentoapartofalectureinanecologyclass.Whathappenstowaterthatfallstotheearthasprecipitation?
随机试题
I’msorry,butIhaveaquestionto______you.
可用于阴血不足,虚热扰心之心烦失眠的方剂是
下列哪项是恶阻肝胃不和的主要表现
A.柴胡疏肝散B.半夏厚朴汤C.丹栀逍遥散D.滋水清肝饮E.甘麦大枣汤治疗心神惑乱型郁证的代表方是
A.以阻塞性通气障碍为主B.以限制性通气障碍为主C.混合性通气功能障碍D.以弥漫性通气障碍为主E.以呼吸中枢功能障碍为主自发性气胸的临床特征是
为使药材色泽洁白,防止霉烂,常在干燥前后较大的根及根茎,坚硬的藤、木类和肉质的果实为便于干燥通常干燥前要
一老年男性患者,近1个月来,感觉头晕、嗜睡、乏力,经血液流变学检查血液黏度增高,血小板黏附和血小板聚集试验值增高,医生诊断为脑血栓前兆,嘱咐患者注意休息、适当运动、多喝水。若患者出现不耐受,可替换药物为
心墙坝或斜墙坝铺筑时应向上游倾斜()的坡度,均质坝应使中部凸起,向上、下游倾斜1%~2%的坡度。
甲公司是一家成立于上世纪90年代初的手机制造商,目前为亚洲地区多个国家和地区的商业、政府、大型机构和个人提供服务。主要产品为普通手机,甲公司通过其“全球计划和直销模式”,以统一的标准向客户提供定制的成套服务和支持,逐步发展成享誉全球的手机品牌,尤其在PC业
计算机中,中央处理器CPU由________和___________两部分组成。
最新回复
(
0
)