American architecture is (1) its best when it is concerned with (2) that have a practical purpose. Factories, office buildings, public buildings, rail terminal and airports, and other such (3) show American architecture at its (4) imaginative and graceful, as well as its most (5) . The single most important American (6) design is the skyscraper, a style (7) in the late nineteenth century and since (8) as the trademark of American building. (9) the development of the steel skeleton and brick for buildings, the weight and low strength of stone and brick limited the (10) of the city office buildings (11) about twelve floors. (12) American cities grew larger in closing years of the 19th century, the (13) on which the structures might be placed because more valuable, the (14) for taller buildings increased. The use of steel (15) for construction was a direct response (16) this demand. The first office building to use the steel frame (17) was constructed in 1884. It soon became clear (18) . a steel--frame building could rise (19) four times as high us one of brick and stone. In a little more than ten years, the use of steel (20) has revolutionized the design of city office buildings, and the skyscraper was born. 13()
A. country
B. land
C. motherland
D. state
When someone has money (56) he wants to put in a safe place, he (57) takes it to a bank. Until recently the very (58) of the bank building was designed to (59) people that their money would be safe. There were thick, solid walls and barred windows. All the windows and doors were wired to set (60) the burglar alarms if anyone tried to (61) his way in.The vaults where he money was kept had huge, steel doors with (62) locks. (63) guards with pistols in their holsters were always on (64) in the bank. The tellers cages--the cubicles (65) the bank clerks, or tellers, worked--actually (66) cages. They had gratings across the front, high sides and back, and a door that could be opened only by pushing a release button.The new style of bank design (67) some of these (68) features, but the idea now is to make the bank (69) like a friendly place (70) than a forbidding fortress. The modem bank buildings are open and light, (71) large glass windows and doors. The tellers’ cages have been (72) by flat, unobstructed counters. The (73) and burglar alarms are still there, but they are (74) noticeable than they (75) to be. 62().
A. competent
B. comprehensive
C. complicated
D. compromise
“童话世界”九寨沟,景色之美首在瀑布,其中最大的______瀑布,是罕见的“森林瀑布”。 P15
设3阶实对称矩阵A的特征值为λ1===1,λ2=2,λ3=-2,α1=(1,-1,1)T是A的属于λ1的一个特征向量.B=A5-4A3+E,其中E为3阶单位矩阵. 验证α1是矩阵B的特征向量,并求B的全部特征值的特征向量;