【正文】 ee meals. 59. The writer writes the passage mainly to . A. introduce the New York Vegas Hotel B. raise funds for the New York Vegas Hotel C. make some rooms of the New York Vegas Hotel known to readers D. introduce the luxurious amenities of the New York Vegas Hotel B Each year the Pritzker Architecture Prize (普立茲克建筑獎 ) goes to a star designer with a long list of attractive buildings around the world. This year’s winner is a little different. Shigeru Ban has designed museums, homes and concert halls. But Ban is best known for a more simple kind of work: the temporary (暫時的 ) buildings for people who became homeless after disasters. Ban may be the only designer in the world who makes buildings out of paper — cardboard paper tubes (管 ). Ban actually tested the strength of cardboard tubes, and said he was surprised by what he had discovered. He has used them to build temporary buildings in Japan, Haiti, China and elsewhere. “After a disaster, the building material is going to be more expensive,” Ban explains. “But the paper tube is actually not a building material. It is cheap and plentiful. We can get the material easily anywhere. And unlike costs for traditional building materials, the price of paper tubes doesn’t jump after an earthquake or flood. The tubes are also lightweight, so you don’t need heavy machines to work with them.” Ban started using cardboard paper tubes in the 1980s. At that time he had just graduated from the architecture school, and he was looking for a cheap substitute for wood. So he started reusing the paper cardboard tubes that were left over from rolls of paper in his office. Ban was born in Tokyo and studied architecture in the . before moving back to Japan to start his practice. Some of Ban’s temporary buildings have bee permanent (永久的 ), like the paper church he built after the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan. 60. The author uses the first paragraph to . A. raise an argument B. give an introduction C. give an example D. offer a description 61. What is special about Shigeru Ban? A. He failed to get this year’s architecture prize. B. He graduated from the best architecture school in the . C. He is good at building houses for homeless people. D. He builds special houses for special groups of people. 62. Why did Shigeru Ban choose cardboard paper tubes? A. Because they are cheap and easy to take away. B. Because they are strong and last for a long time. C. Because they are plentiful and look very beautiful. D. Because they are mon and hard to break. 63. What does the underlined word “substitute” probably refer to? A. A new way of building houses by using wood. B. A new method of producing cardboard paper tubes. C. A new kind of building material to take the place of wood. D. A new machine to produce a new kind of building material. C My name is Jack. I am eighteen years old and next fall I will go to college. So far I have not done any things that are really interesting. I have not seen a natural wonder of the world. I have not thought up any amazing ideas. I have not met anyone famous. I have not even swum in the Pacific Ocean. Some weeks ago, I read an article written by a teenager. He has cancer and doesn’t have many days left. He is traveling around the world to do what he really wants to do before he dies. What he wrote made me realize that I need to go out and experience life. It is not like I am unhappy with my life now. I just think there is much more to see and do outside my home and school. Mahatma Gandhi said, “Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.” This quote makes me have a strong desire (渴望 ) to experience a more exciting life. The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent lasts forever. I hope that when I look back on my life many years from now, I will be able to say, “I saw that, I did that, and I was a part of that.” Now I do not know what “that” is, but if it is something special enough to remember fifty, sixty, or seventy years later, I will be happy to do it. 64. In Para. 1, the author wants to show that . A. he wants to have a change in college B. he lives a very boring life every day C. he is just like any other young man in the world D. he hasn’t done anything exciting in hi