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IELTS · Part 2 · Cambridge 14 — Test 2

Back to the future of skyscraper design: Reading answers

Answers to questions 14–26 (13 in all), each with why it is right.

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Answers to the problem of excessive electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings can be found in ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early-20th centuries A The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture by Professor Alan Short is the culmination of 30 years of research and award-winning green building design by Short and colleagues in Architecture, Engineering, Applied Maths and Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. "The crisis in building design is already here," said Short."Policy makers think you can solve energy and building problems with gadgets.You can't.As global temperatures continue to rise, we are going to continue to squander…

Answers 14–26

  1. 14

    why some people avoided hospitals in the 19th century

    F Matching information

  2. 15

    a suggestion that the popularity of tall buildings is linked to prestige

    C Matching information

  3. 16

    a comparison between the circulation of air in a 19th-century building and modern standards

    E Matching information

  4. 17

    how Short tested the circulation of air in a 19th-century building

    D Matching information

  5. 18

    an implication that advertising led to the large increase in the use of air conditioning

    B Matching information

  6. 19

    design / designs Note completion

  7. 20

    pathogens Note completion

  8. 21

    tuberculosis Note completion

  9. 22

    wards Note completion

  10. 23

    communal Note completion

  11. 24

    public Note completion

  12. 25

    miasmas Note completion

  13. 26

    cholera Note completion

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