专题05 阅读理解之说明文10篇（第二期）-2023高考英语名校模拟真题速递（新高考专用）

2023高考英语名校模拟真题速递（新高考专用） 第二期 专题05 阅读理解之说明文10篇 （2023·湖北·高三统考一模）Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, this year’s winners of the most famous award in architecture, are as surprised as anyone else. “Of course, we are very pleased,” Lacaton said. She and her partner smiled broadly. Putting aside their wearing eyeglasses, Lacaton and Vassal could not be more different from an earlier generation of “architects”. Lacaton and Vassal apply a belief—never destroy, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse - to their work on old urban buildings. Designs by Lacaton and Vassal have focused on perfecting low-income housing complexes, beautifully and functionally, while respecting — rather than displacing- the people who live there. “Buildings are beautiful when people feel well in them,“ Lacaton explained. “When the light inside is beautiful and the air is pleasant, when the exchange with the outside seems easy and gentle, and when uses and sensations are unexpected.” Vassal added, “There’s a lot of violence in architecture. We try to be accurate. We try to work with kindness.” perfecting low-income housing complexes, beautifully and functionally, while respecting — rather than displacing- the people who live there. When Lacaton and Vassal were asked to redesign a particularly large and ugly public housing building in Bordeaux in 2017, the residents told them they did not want to move, even temporarily, but that they wanted bigger units. The solution was to surround the building with large outdoor terraces (露天平台), adding sliding glass doors to each unit, and remaking the exterior from concrete to something gleaming(闪光的), modern and alive. Suddenly, everyone had roomy outdoor space, some of which was enclosed to be used during the winter as “winter gardens”. “Their approach of cost-effective, creative readaption could be a model for urban planning in the U.S., where destruction’s been seen as a method of solving the worsening public housing in such cities as Chic