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Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once．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 1 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 2 . During this renovation the building's owners, CIS, 3 the solar panel company, Solar century. They agreed to cover the entire building in solar panels. In 2004, the completed CIS tower became Europe's largest 4 of vertical solar panels. A vertical solar project on such a large 5 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 6 overtaken by the Mill bank Tower.Green buildings like this aren't 7 cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy 8 through fossil fuels. As solar panels get 9 , 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 10 , but rather one to collect the most solar energy.A)cheaperB)cleanerC)collectionD)competedE)constructedF)consultedG) dimensionH)discoveredI)eventuallyJ)heightK)necessarilyL)productionM)rangeN)scaleO)undertaken

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Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once．Since the 1940s, southern California has had a reputation for smog. Things are not as bad as they once were but, according to the American Lung Association, Los Angeles is still the worst city in the United States for levels of 1 . Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze (霾). Nor is the state's bad air 2 to its south. Fresno, in the central valley, comes top of the list in America for year-round pollution. Residents' hearts and lungs are affected as a 3 . All of which, combined with California's reputation as the home of technological 4 , makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in 5 . And that is just what Aclima, a new firm in San Francisco, has been doing over the past few months. It has been trying out monitoring stations that are 6 to yield minute-to-minute maps of 7 air pollution. Such stations will also be able to keep an eye on what is happening inside buildings, including offices.To this end, Aclima has been 8 with Google's Street View system. Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's 9 were forced to use their cars. Conversely, "cycle to work" days have done their job by 10 pollution lows.A) assistedB)collaborating C)consequence D)consumersE)creatingF)detailG) domesticH)frequentlyI)inhabitantsJ)innovationK)intendedL)outdoorM)pollutantsN)restrictedO)sum

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