Passage 10 In the
late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to
environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely
criticized. Ecologists pointing {{U}}(1) {{/U}} that a cluster of tall
buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot
{{U}}(2) {{/U}} Skyscrapers are also enormous
{{U}}(3) {{/U}}, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the
addition {{U}}(4) {{/U}} 17 million square feet of skyscraper office
space in New York City raised the {{U}}(5) {{/U}} daily demand for
electricity by 120,000 kilowatts--enough to {{U}}(6) {{/U}} the entire
city of Albany for a day. Glass-walled skyscraper can be especially {{U}}(7)
{{/U}}. The heat Still, people {{U}}(19) {{/U}} to
build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built
them--personal ambition and the 20 of owners to have the largest possible amount
of rentable space.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】本题测试point的短语搭配。C正确。point sth. out意为“指出”;point at (towards) sb./sth.意为“指向,瞄准”;point to意为“指明(方向/位置),显示”。
【答案解析】本题测试逻辑性词义搭配。mirror-walled是上一句中reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films的重复,用however转引出上一句提及的解决办法实际上存在着环境问题。glass-walled不切题;plastic-walled和concrete-walled为本文未涉及的无关选项。