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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
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答案E
解析 本空前有was，后有介词短语，说明应填入形容词或动词的分词形式，而两个形容词均不符合句意，因此应填入动词的分词形式。本句指出，当这座大楼于1962年首次________时，它的外墙都是薄薄的方形石板。接下来的一句话提到了renovation“翻新”，由此推断，1962年时首次建造这座大楼，因此本题答案为E)constructed。
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