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12 What does the underlined word “sneaky” in the second paragraph mean?
Secret Separate Secluded Sedate
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Architecture is an art, and any art must give us pleasure, or else it is bad art, or we are abnormally blind. We are in
general too hardened and insensitive to architecture as an art and to the joy it may bring to us. It is the constant
nearness of architecture during our entire conscious existence that has blinded us in this way. We forget that it is an art
of here and now because it is with us every day and because we must have houses to live in. We are apt to think of
them solely as abiding places. Therefore, we think of architecture as some vague, learned thing dealing with French
cathedrals or Italian palaces or Greek temples, not with New York or Chicago streets or Los Angeles suburbs, and this
false doctrine has strengthened in us until our eyes are dulled and our minds are deadened to all that beauty that is
being created around us today, and we lose all the fine deep pleasure that we might otherwise experience from our
ordinary surroundings.
13 According to the passage, what is the most important function of art?
To make us feel happy To give us knowledge
To enliven our surroundings To make us sensitive to nature
14 According to the passage, why is architecture an art of “here and now”?
We are living in it.
It always gives us joy.
It lasts regardless of time.
Great buildings like French cathedrals and Greek temples still exist.
15 Why are people insensitive to architecture as an art?
We are too close to it. We are conscious of its existence.
We only think of modern buildings as art. Our minds are deadened by busy lifestyles.
16 According to the passage, how do people in New York in general think of their buildings?
The buildings are not familiar in their experience.
The buildings are just their abiding places.
The buildings are something that creates beauty in their surroundings.
The buildings are comparable to French cathedrals or Greek temples.
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Since a bolt generates heat of up to 28,000 degrees (five times hotter than the sun), people assume that anyone in
its path will be severely scorched, says Mary Cooper, MD, a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher, who studies
lightning injuries. “In reality, only one-third of victims have any burns at all, because the skin contact is so brief, just
milliseconds.” The intense heat can have unpredictable effects. “There are reports of tied leather shoes exploding off
people’s feet as their sweat instantly vaporizes,” Dr. Cooper adds. Other complications from a strike include ruptured
eardrums, blindness or vision problems, mental impairment, nerve damage, convulsions, cardiac arrest, and, in up to
ten percent of cases, death. However, throughout history there have been survivors of lightning strikes who have
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