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Skyscrapers and Environment In the late 1960’s, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problem

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问题     Skyscrapers and Environment
    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 pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a pity often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.
    Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120,000 kilowatts—enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.
    Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain) through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall(砌筑墙) filled with insulation board (隔热板). To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.
    Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city’s sanitation facilities, too. If fully occupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2. 25 million gallons of raw sewage each year—as much as a city the size of Stanford, Connecticut, which has a population of more than 109,000.
According to the passage, what is one disadvantage of skyscrapers that have mirrored walls?
选项 A、The exterior surrounding air is heated.
B、The building materials are very expensive.
C、Construction time is increased.
D、Extra air-conditioning equipment is needed.
答案A
解析 事实细节题。从第三段最后一句话“mirror—walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings”可以看出，镜面的摩天大楼会提高周围空气的温度并会对附近的建筑物产生影响，因此选择A。
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