2018年06月四级第1套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar panels. They are used to create some of the energy used by the insurance company inside. When the tower was first __26__ in 1962, it was covered with thin square stones. These small square stones became a problem for the building and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovation was __27__. During this renovation the building's owners, CIS, __28__ the solar panel company, Solar century. They agreed to cover the entire building in solar panels. In 2004, the completed CIS tower became Europe's largest __29__ of vertical solar panels. A vertical solar project on such a large __30__ has never been repeated since.

曼彻斯特米勒街上的一座办公大楼完全覆盖着太阳能板。这些太阳能板用于为楼内保险公司提供部分能源。该塔最初建于1962年时，覆盖着薄方形石块。这些小方石块成为建筑的问题，并在接下来的40年里不断从表面脱落，直到进行大规模翻新。在翻新期间，大楼的所有者CIS咨询了太阳能板公司Solar century。他们同意用太阳能板覆盖整栋建筑。2004年，完工的CIS塔成为欧洲最大的垂直太阳能板集合。如此大规模的垂直太阳能项目此后从未再出现。

Covering a skyscraper with solar panels had never been done before, and the CIS tower was chosen as one of the "10 best green energy projects". For a long time after this renovation project, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom, but it was __31__ overtaken by the Mill bank Tower.

用太阳能板覆盖摩天大楼此前从未做过，CIS塔被选为“十大最佳绿色能源项目”之一。在这个翻新项目之后的很长一段时间里，它是英国最高的建筑，但最终被千禧塔超越。

Green buildings like this aren't __32__ cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy __33__ through fossil fuels. As solar panels get __34__, the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collecting energy much like trees do. Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of __35__, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.

像这样的绿色建筑对投资者来说不一定具有成本效益，但它产生的污染远少于通过化石燃料生产能源所造成的污染。随着太阳能板变得更便宜，世界可能会看到更多覆盖太阳能板的摩天大楼，像树木一样收集能源。想象一个世界，建造最高的摩天大楼不是高度竞赛，而是收集最多太阳能的竞赛。