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Huff raised the house 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings in order to ______.
A．withstand peak winds of about 200 km/h
B．anchor stronger pilings deep in the sand
C．break huge sea waves into smaller ones
D．prevent water from rushing into the house
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第1题
Located on the shore of Sullivan’s Island off the coast of South Carolina, the award-winning cube-shaped beach house was built to replace one smashed to pieces by Hurricane （飓风） Hugo 10 years ago. In September 1989, Hugo struck South Carolina, killing 18 people and damaging or destroying 36,000 homes in the state.
Before Hugo, many new houses built along South Carolina’s shoreline were poorly constructed, and enforcement of building codes wasn’t strict, according to architect Ray Huff, who created the cleverly-designed beach house. In Hugo’s wake, all new shoreline houses are required to meet stricter, better-enforced codes. The new beach house on Sullivan’s Island should be able to withstand a Category 3 hurricane with peak winds of 179 to 209 kilometers per hour.
At first sight, the house on Sullivan’s Island looks anything but hurricane-proof. Its redwood shell makes it resemble “a large party lantern （灯笼）” at night, according to one observer. But looks can be deceiving. The house’s wooden frame. is reinforced with long steel rods to give it extra strength.
To further protect the house from hurricane damage, Huff raised it 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings—long, slender columns of wood anchored deep in the sand. Pilings might appear insecure, but they are strong enough to support the weight of the house. They also elevate the house above storm surges. The pilings allow the surges to run under the house instead of running into it. “These swells of water come ashore at tremendous speeds and cause most of the damage done to beach-front buildings,” said Huff.
Huff designed the timber pilings to be partially concealed by the house’s ground-to-roof shell. “The shell masks the pilings so that the house doesn’t look like it’s standing with its pant legs pulled up,” said Huff. In the event of a storm surge, the shell should break apart and let the waves rush under the house, the architect explained.
第36题：After the tragedy caused by Hurricane Hugo, new houses built along South Carolina’s shore line are required ________.
A．to be easily reinforced
B．to look smarter in design
C．to meet stricter building standards
D．to be designed in the shape of cubes
第2题
The Parliament of Australia is composed of______ and ______.
A．the House of Lords; the House of Commons
B．the Senate; the House of Representatives
C．the Senate; the House of Commons
D．the House of Lords; the House of Representatives
第3题
This article focuses most clearly on ______.
A．the architectural beauties of the White House
B．early residents of the White House
C．improvements in the White House
D．the history of the White House to 1950
第4题
A．She believed that her baby would not bother on her back.
B．She wanted to do some housework.
C．She can make the child warmer.
D．She can let the baby know her love.
第5题
What is Dickiason's particular form. of self-publication？
A．She ran her own publishing house.
B．She wrote her poems in her letters.
C．She wrote to newspapers regularly.
D．She recorded her poems in her diary.
第6题
What will happen at the end of the show？
A．Linda will give tips on how to prepare the soil.
B．Linda will discuss building a green house.
C．Linda will give a tour of her garden.
D．Linda will invite her friends to her hous
第7题
This ,in brief, is what the Futurist says ;for a noise and violence and speed. Consequently, our feelings, thoughts and emotions have undergone a corresponding change. This speeding up of life, says the Futurist, requires a new form. of expression. We must speed up our literature too, if we want to interpret modem stress. We must pour out a large stream of essential words, unhampered by stops, or qualifying adjectives, of finite verbs. Instead of describing sounds we must make up words that imitate them; we must use many sizes of type and different colored inks on the same page, and shorten or lengthen words at will.
Certainly their descriptions of battles are confused. But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river and then to find that the line consists of the noise of their falling and the weights of the officers: Huff! Huff! A hundred and eighty-five kilograms. This, though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futurist poetry, can hardly be classed as Literature. All the same, no thinking man can refuse to accept their first proposition: that a great change in our emotional life calls for a change of expression. The whole question is really this: have we essentially changed？
This passage is mainly______.
A．a survey of new approaches to art
B．a review of Futurist poetry
C．about merits of the Futurist movement
D．about laws and requirements of literature
第8题
A woman in an Mrican home ______.
A．depends on her husband at any time
B．doesn't do any housework
C．doesn't depend on her husband at all
D．lives in her own hut and runs her own household
第9题
[ A] raised
[ B] increased
[ C] peaked
[ D] climaxed
