【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 garden in your yardD. what Americans use their backyards to do4Bill Gates has a nice house on a hill by Lake Washington. Inside the house there are seven bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, six kitchens and six fireplaces. It even has a theatre, a library, an exercise room and a swimming pool. You can say the house is very big. However, it doesn39。t look so big, because a large part of it is in the hill.The house is famous for many reasons. One is its large size, and another is its amazing electronic systems（電子系統(tǒng)）. Before a visitor goes into the house, he/she gets a chip（芯片）at the gate. The chip sends information about the visitor to the electronic systems in the house. When the visitor goes into the house, lights are on automatically （自動地）. When the visitor goes into a room, the temperature（溫度）will change to make the visitor fortable. When the visitor goes from one room to another, he/she can hear music.Bill Cates began to build his house in 1990. It took him about 7 years to build it. Bill Gates39。 house is wonderful, isn39。t it?15. Bill Gates house doesn39。t look very big because .A. the house is in a forest B. the house is very modernC. the house is very small D. a large part of the house is in the hills16. Bill Gates39。 house is very famous. The writer gives reasonsA. one B. two C. four D. five17. What will the writer get before he goes into the house?A. He will get a map of the house. B. He will get an electronic system.C. He will get a chip. D. He will get a card.18. Which is the best title for the passage?A. Bill Gates39。 dream home B. Bill Gates39。 houseC. Bill Gates and his house D. Bill Gates39。 family5It’s no secret that there is a space(空間) problem in Manhattan(曼哈頓). People build up higher and higher buildings because there isn’t much land left and there is no room to build out. So people have been building lots of tall and thin buildings. Developers(開發(fā)商) are trying to build higher and higher buildings. However, the government has made laws(法律) that don’t allow developers to build too high buildings. Oiio Studio thinks about things differently, “what if our buildings were not tall but long?” So the founder of Oiio Studio, Ioannis Oikonomou, design(設計) a Ushaped building, the Big Bend. It would be a very thin building. It would curve at the top and return to the ground. Oikonomous, said he thought of the great idea because he learned from a piece of news. It said that a pany made a lift that could travel in curves. So he designed the Big Bend. He thought it as “the longest building in the world”. It would be 4000 feet from end to end and would need a different lift system. We can’t change the law, ▲ . So if we can bend(使彎曲) our building, we would be able to build one of the most amazing buildings in Manhattan,” Oiio Studio said. The Big Bend is