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【題目】閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容寫一篇60詞左右的內(nèi)容概要。

With limited space for parks and gardens, architects and city planners often find it challenging to include greenery in neighborhoods in cities. One creative solution is to grow plants on unused areas like walls and rooftops. It’s a popular idea, and now rooftop gardens and green walls have been sprouting up（大量冒出） in cities around the world.

There are many benefits of having green spaces to the urban landscape. Adding gardens to rooftops or walls can create a pleasant environment — what was once a gray cement（水泥） wall can become a colorful, blooming garden. The CaxiaForum art gallery in Madrid, Spain, is a famous example — one of its walls is covered with 15,000 plants from over 250 different species. In other cities, green walls are being used more functionally, to cover up construction sites and empty buildings and to decorate the lobbies of office buildings.

Using plants to cover walls and rooftops can also keep cities cooler in the summer. Buildings and roads absorb the sun’s heat and hold it, causing a building or neighborhood to stay warmer longer. Plants, on the other hand, provide an enormous amount of shade. There is evidence that growing a roof or wall garden can lower a building’s energy costs.

In New York City, public schools plant rooftop gardens that can reduce heating and cooling costs. In addition to saving the school money, teachers and parents love the gardens because of their educational value — it’s a fun and healthy way for their kids to investigate the world around them. “For the children, it’s exciting when you grow something edible（可食用的）,” said Lauren Fontana, principal of a New York public school.

Rooftop gardens and green walls may require a bit more effort to grow and maintain. However, hard work always brings rewards, and with green spaces, the rewards are plentiful.

Answer 1

【答案】One Possible Version:

Due to the limited space in cities, rooftop gardens and green walls have emerged.（要點1）One benefit of adding green to rooftops and walls is to offer an agreeable surroundings.（要點2）Besides, shade can be created to make cities stay cooler longer, thus reducing the costs in energy.（要點3）What’s more, green gardens in school bear educational value of children’s exploring the world.（要點4）Though hard to maintain, green spaces in cities ensure abundant rewards.（要點5）

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【解析】1. 文章第一段就是本篇文章的主題句，亮明了總的觀點：With limited space for parks and gardens, architects and city planners often find it challenging to include greenery in neighborhoods in cities.再結(jié)合本段最后一句得出Due to the limited space in cities, rooftop gardens and green walls have emerged.（要點1）

2．第二段主要首句“There are many benefits of having green spaces to the urban landscape.”可知有許多benefits.接下來本段中的第一個benefit就是“ Adding gardens to rooftops or walls can create a pleasant environment”因為不能用原句所以用offer換了 create ，用an agreeable surroundings替代了a pleasant environment，故形成了第2個要點One benefit of adding green to rooftops and walls is to offer an agreeable surroundings.（要點2）

3.第三段首句“Using plants to cover walls and rooftops can also keep cities cooler in the summer.”是要點。再加上最后一句“...can lower a building’s energy costs”,重新轉(zhuǎn)述為要點3：“shade can be created to make cities stay cooler longer, thus reducing the costs in energy. （要點3）”

4.第四段第二句話點明了本段主要大意，再結(jié)合下文“teachers and parents love the gardens because of their educational value — it’s a fun and healthy way for their kids to investigate the world around them.”，略去細節(jié)得出“green gardens in school bear educational value of children’s exploring the world. （要點4）”

5.第五段最后一句點出“However, hard work always brings rewards, and with green spaces, the rewards are plentiful.” 改寫時用“abundant”換了同義詞“plentiful”從而形成了“Though hard to maintain, green spaces in cities ensure abundant rewards.（要點5）”

6.最后用連詞按順序把文章貫通起來，形成一篇文章。

亮點：文章對原文要點的理解和呈現(xiàn)情況比較好，按照事件的順序展開，用幾個簡潔的句子把文章內(nèi)容表達的非常清晰完整。文章中使用了很好的短語和句子給文章增色。