2023年CATTI二级笔译综合能力真题解析Passage2：Part5

　　2023年CATTI二级笔译综合能力真题解析Passage2：Part5

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　　Questions 71—80 are based on the following passage.

　　The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks. It was blown away by a huffing, puffing wolf, which promptly gobbled him up. His brother, by contrast, built a wolf- proof house from bricks. The fairy tale could have been written by a flack for the construction industry, which strongly favours brick, concrete and steel. However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.

　　In 2015 world leaders meeting in Paris agreed to move towards zero net greenhouse-gas emissions in the second half of this century. That is a tall order, and the building industry makes it even taller. Cement-making alone produces 6% of the world's carbon emissions. Steel, half of which goes into buildings, accounts for another 8%. If you factor in all of the energy that goes into lighting, heating and cooling homes and offices, the world's buildings start to look like a giant environmental problem.

　　Governments in the rich world are now trying to promote greener behaviour by obliging developers to build new projects to "zero carbon" standards. From January 1st 2019all new public-sector buildings in the European Union must be built to "nearly zero-energy" standards. All other types of buildings will follow in January 2021. Governments in eight further countries are being lobbied to introduce a similar policy.

　　These standards are less green than they seem. Wind turbines and solar panels on top of buildings look good but are much less productive than wind and solar farms. And the standards only count the emissions from running a building, not those belched out when it was made. Those are thought to account for between 30% and 60% of the total over a structure's lifetime.

　　Buildings can become greener. They can use more recycled steel and can be prefabricated in off-site factories, greatly reducing lorry journeys. But no other building material has environmental credentials as exciting and overlooked as wood.

　　The energy required to produce a laminated wooden beam is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing, wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. When a mature tree is cut down, a new one can be planted to replace it, capturing more carbon. After buildings are demolished, old beams and panels are easy to recycle into new structures. And for retrofitting older buildings to be more energy efficient, wood is a good insulator. A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminum equivalent.

　　A race is on to build the world's tallest fully wooden skyscraper. But such edifices are still uncommon. Industry fragmentation, vicious competition for contracts and low profit margins mean that most building firms have little money to invest in greener construction methods beyond what regulation dictates.

　　Governments can help nudge the industry to use more wood, particularly in the public sector — the construction industry's biggest client. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be altered to take account of the emissions that are embodied in materials. This would favour wood as well as innovative ways of producing other materials.

　　Construction codes could be tweaked to make building with wood easier. Here the direction of travel is wrong. Britain, for instance, is banning the use of timber on the outside of tall buildings after 72 people died in a tower fire in London in 2017. That is a nonsense. Grenfell Tower was covered in aluminum and plastic, not wood. Modem cross-laminated timber panels perform better in fire tests than steel ones do.

　　Carpentry alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world's buildings into line. But using wood can do much more than is appreciated. The second little pig was not wrong, just before his time.

　　(选自《经济学人》2019年1月5日)

　　71. What does the word "flack" underlined in Paragraph I mean?

　　A. Writer. B. Critic.

　　C. Publicist. D. Cheater.

　　72. The phrase "tall order" underlined in Paragraph 2 is used to ________ .

　　A. indicate that the aim of the agreement is hard to achieve

　　B. show that the order of cement in building, industry is large

　　C. predict the order of steel will be difficult to fulfill

　　D. present the bright future of building industry

　　73. The buildings in the world turn to be a big environmental problem due to the energy that goes into the following systems EXCEPT ________ .

　　A. lighting in the houses

　　B. air-conditioning in the offices

　　C. heating at homes

　　D. plumping of buildings

　　74. What does the word "Those" underlined in Paragraph 4 refer to?

　　A. Wind turbines and solar panels.

　　B. Emissions during the construction of a building.

　　C. The standards of emissions.

　　D. Emissions after a building being put into use.

　　75. What can we learn from Paragraph 6?

　　A. Using wood to construct buildings has many advantages.

　　B. Cutting down trees might be helpful to environmental protection.

　　C. Wood is better than steel in every aspect.

　　D. Wooden buildings can capture carbon from the air.

　　76. Paragraph 7 attempts to ________ .

　　A. diminish the prospect of building wooden houses

　　B. explain the obstacles for building companies to use wood more

　　C. emphasize the vicious competition in building industry

　　D. predict the gloomy future of greener investment

　　77. The main idea of Paragraph 8 is ________ .

　　A. wood-building experts can lower the costs

　　B. building materials can be innovative

　　C. public facilities are important clients of construction industry

　　D. some measures can be taken to encourage the use of wood in building industry

　　78. The author's attitude towards banning the use of timber after the tower fire in London is ________ .

　　A. approval B. disapproval

　　C. detached D. shocked

　　79. What's the meaning of the last sentence in Paragraph 10?

　　A. The second little pig was wrong at his time.

　　B. There is no right or wrong for the pig to build his house from wood.

　　C. The pig's choice of using wood to build his house is out of time.

　　D. It's very advanced for the pig to make his house from sticks.

　　80. Which of the following can be the title of this passage?

　　A. Buildings Produce Carbon Emissions

　　B. Zero Carbon Standards

　　C. Using More Wood Would Be Greener

　　D. Carbon Emission Reduction

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