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When we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones—the kind of high-tech, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U.S. has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be (1) wasteful to tear them all down and (2) them with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses. And it would take an average of 65 years for the (3) carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one. So in the broadest (4) , the greenest home is the one that has already been built. But at the same time, nearly half of U.S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and (5) our homes, offices and other buildings. "You can’t deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings," says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.
With some (6)

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When we learn something new, we tend to store the new information by ______.
A. associating it with something we have already stored
B. deleting the old information in our memory
C. keeping both new and old information in the brain side by side

[填空题]In what way should we think when speaking We should think ______.

[单项选择]We were young men (when) we (first met) in London, poor, (struggle), (full of) hope and ideas.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

[单项选择] Learning a language When Do We Learn a Language Children begin learning languages at birth (infants pay attention to their parents’’ voices, as opposed to random noises or even other languages), and haven’’t really mastered it subtleties before the age of ten years. Indeed. we never really stop learning our language. This isn’’t exactly the sort of behavior (like foals walking an hour after birth) that we call ’’instinct’’ in animals. Do We learn When We Don’’t Have to But at least it’’s effortless, isn’’t it Well, no, as we can see when children have a choice of languages to learn. What’’s found is that, to be frank, children don’’t learn a language if they can get away with not learning it. Many an immigrant family in the U.S. intends to teach their child their native language; and for the first few years it goes swimmingly so much so that the parents worry that the child won’’t learn English. Then the child goes to schoo
A. Y
B. N
C. NG