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  3. There is a tale that straw is the worst material from which to build a house

There is a tale that straw is the worst material from which to build a house

游客2024-01-15  14
问题     There is a tale that straw is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry wolf around. So the cards were stacked against Warren Brush when local officials learned that he had several buildings made of straw bales (大捆) on his land.
    They have tried to fine him a lot. But the case is still unresolved. The problem is that California’s building codes make no provision for the use of straw. And Mr.Brush has many defenders-among them several university scientists and David Eisenberg, the chairman of the United States Green Building Council’s code committee. Theywould like to see the prejudice against straw houses eliminated, for straw is, in many ways, an ideal building material.
    It is, for one thing, a great insulator (绝缘体). That keeps down the heating bills in houses made from it. It is also a waste product that would otherwise be burned, and is therefore cheap. And-very much to the point in a place like California—it is earthquake-resistant. Last year a test conducted at the University of  Nevada showed that straw-bale constructions could withstand twice the amount of ground motion recorded in the Northridge earthquake that hit Los Angeles in 1994.
    There are other straws in the wind: a post office in suburban Albuquerque, a school in Maryland , and an office complex in suburban Los Angeles have all been built from straw. Even California is having a rethink, and may change its rules to adapt to straw-bale construction. As Mr. Eisenberg observes, "The lesson of the Three Litde Pigs isn’t to avoid straw. It’s that you don’t let a pig build your house. " [br] The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to______.
选项 A、show that straw can be used to build houses
B、highlight the prejudice against straw houses
C、explain how to build a house with straw
D、introduce a new building material
答案 B
解析 文章全文通过人们对用稻草建房子的偏见引入，讨论了草作为建筑材料的优势所在。最后又用三只小猪的故事强调，让人们去掉偏见，接受这种建筑材料，只有B项符合。
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