The traditional tent cities at festivals such as Glastonbury may never be the same again. In a victory of green business that is certain to appeal to environmentally-aware music-lovers, a design student is to receive financial support to produce eco-friendly tents made of cardboard that can be recycled after the bands and the crowds have gone home.

Major festivals such as Glastonbury throw away some 10,000 abandoned tents at the end of events each year. For his final year project at the University of the West of England, James Dunlop came up with a material that can be recycled. And to cope with the British summer, the cardboard has been made waterproof.

Taking inspiration from a Japanese architect, who has used cardboard to make big buildings including churches, Mr. Dunlop used cardboard material for his tents, which he called Myhabs.

The design won an award at the annual New Designers Exhibition after Mr. Dunlop graduated from his product design degree and he decided to try to turn it into a business

To raise money for the idea, he toured the city’s private companies which fund new business and found a supporter in the finance group Mint. He introduced his idea to four of Mint’s directors and won their support. Mint has committed around ??500,000 to MyHabs and taken a share of 30 per cent in Mr. Dunlop’s business. The first Myhabs should be tested at festivals this summer, before being marketed fully next year.

Mr. Dunlop said that the design, which accommodates two people, could have other uses, such as for disaster relief and housing for the London Olympics.

For music events, the cardboard houses will be ordered online and put up at the sites by the Myhabs team before the festival-goers arrive and removed by the company afterwards. They can be personalized and the company will offer reductions on the expense if people agree to sell exterior (外部的) advertising space. 

The biggest festivals attract tens of thousands of participants, with Glastonbury having some 150,000 each year. Altogether there are around 100 annual music festivals where people camp in the UK. The events are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious.

11. “Eco-friendly tents” in paragraph 1 refer to tents _______.

  A. economically desirable  B. favorable to the environment

  C. for holding music performances1   D. designed for disaster relief

12. Mr. Dunlop established his business        .

  A. independently with an interest-free loan from Mint

  B. with the approval of the City’s administration

  C. in partnership with a finance group

  D. with the help of a Japanese architect

13. It is implied in the passage that _______.

  A. the weather in the UK is changeable in summer 

  B. most performances at British festivals are given in the open air

  C. the cardboard tents produced by Mr. Dunlop can be user-tailored

D. cardboard tents can be easily put up and removed by users.

14. The passage is mainly concerned with        .

A. an attempt at developing recyclable tents

B. some efforts at making full use of cardboards

C. an unusual success of a graduation project

D. the effects of using cardboard tents on music festivals

15. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A. Don’t Use Tents Again

B. The Advantages of Tents

C. How to Produce Tents

D. The Development of Recyclable Tents

11-15  BCCAD


解析:

本文主要介紹開發(fā)和使用可再利用的帳篷。

11.  詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第一段最后一句可知，eco-friendly tents是用紙板做，在樂隊和人群離開回家后，可以重復(fù)使用的，顯然是對環(huán)境有利的。另外，根據(jù)eco-friendly的構(gòu)成也可猜出其含義為“環(huán)境友好的”，上文environmentally-ware(有環(huán)境意識的)也有提示作用。

12.  細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段內(nèi)容可知，Mr. Dunlop與財團Mint為合作關(guān)系，Mint財團為其MyHabs項目提供50萬英鎊的資金支持，Mr. Dunlop提供技術(shù)并負責(zé)實施該項目，作為回報，Mint財團將獲得Mr. Dunlop企業(yè)的30％的股份，故選C。A項獲得Mint的無息貸款，顯然錯。Mr. Dunlop尋求的是the City’s private companies 的支持，而非城市管理部門的批準(zhǔn)，B錯。他的創(chuàng)意是受到日本建筑師的啟發(fā)，而非得到其幫助，D錯。

13.  推理判斷題。倒數(shù)第二段最后一句“They can be personalized"暗示可以根據(jù)用戶的要求裁剪式樣。根據(jù)第二段最后一句可推知英國夏季多雨，但不能推出changeable(易變，多變)的，A錯。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段可知，這種帳篷只能睡兩個人，顯然不是為搭建露天演出棚所用，只是為那些觀看節(jié)目演出，而又難以承擔(dān)或不愿支付居住高額旅館的年輕(學(xué)生)野外露宿所用，演出應(yīng)不是露天，至少不能推出B正確。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段首句，這種帳篷可在網(wǎng)上訂購，但該公司將派安裝隊負責(zé)安裝和拆除，可見安裝和拆除不是很容易，D錯。

14.  主旨大意題。文章關(guān)注的是開發(fā)和使用可再利用的帳篷，A正確。這種帳篷將利用紙板，但這不是根本目的，B錯。這種帳篷的確是Mr. Dunlop最后一年的課題，但文章聚集的不是大學(xué)生的課題，而且該項目尚不能說取得了成功，還有待實踐去檢驗，C錯�，F(xiàn)在尚只是使用，效果如何尚是未知，D錯

15.  主旨大意題。縱覽全文得知，文章講的是開發(fā)和使用可再利用的帳篷問題，所以D正確。

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