2019高考英语阅读之每日一篇

2019高考英语阅读之每日一篇 (一) During the years after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, structural engineers have been trying hard to solve a question that would otherwise have been completely unthinkable: Can building be designed to stand catastrophic blasts （攻击） by terrorists? Soon after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers, structural engineers from the University at Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research （MCEER） traveled to ground zero as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation．They spent two days beginning the task of formulating（构思） ideas about how to design such structures and to search for clues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged, but still are standing． "Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, those buildings that are still standing, but that sustained damage," said Mr．Bruneau, Ph．D．"Our immediate hope is that we can develop a bet