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·高考英语必考点精选100题训练 ·高考数学数列选择题专项训练 ·高考语文备考知识点整理笔记 ·高考物理复习:常考知识点汇总 ·高考生物备考手册:重要知识点梳理 ·高考政治复习资料:知识点总结 ·高考强化备考:历史总复习要点 ·高考地理备考:知识点回顾 名师支招
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题 ·高考物理有效复习:梳理常识 多项准备 ·高考文综快速突击:如何3天提分? ·新课标高考生物:选对学习方法其实很简单 ·年新课标高考政治第一轮复习逻辑 Passage 24 (09?湖北D篇) A few years ago, Paul Gerner began to gather a group of architects in Las vegas to ask them what it would take to design a public school that used 50 percent less energy, cost much less to build and obviously improved student learning . ”I think half of then fell off their chairs,” Gerner
says. Gerner manages school facilities (设施)for Clark county, Nevada, a district roughly the size of Massachusetts. By , 143, 000 additional students will enter the already crowded public-education system. Gerner needs 73 new schools to house them. Four architecture teams have nearly finished designing primary school prototypes (样品) ; They plan to construct their schools starting in 2009. The district will then assess how well the schools perform, and three winners will copy those designs in 50 to 70 new
buildings. Green schools are appearing all over , but in Clark County, which stands out for its vastness, such aggressive targets are
difficult because design requirements like more natural light for students go against the realities of a desert climate. ”One of the biggest challenges is getting the right site orientation(朝向), ” Mark McGinty, a director at SH Architecture, says. His firm recently completed a high school in Las Vegas. “You have the same building, same set of windows, but if its orientation is incorrect and it faces the sun, it will be really expensive to
cool.” Surprisingly, the man responsible for one of re most progressive green-design competitions has doubts about ideas of eco-friendly buildings. ”I don’t believe in the new green religion,” Gerner