A camp built by students and volunteers spreads over Southern Methodist University（SMU）. The affordable
21 are designed to be used by the poor as well as survivors of war and natural disasters.
“By the time 2020, there’s going to be about 1.7 billion people living in slums（贫民窟） so we would like to
22 change,” says Stephanie Hunt, co-founder of the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanities at SMU. The institute, which
23 build the village on SMU’s campus, was established to solve problem of the poor in the United States and around the world through engineering, and the free
24 .
The goal is not just to
25 lives, but to change the victims’ lives. The Institute hopes some entrepreneurs（企业家） might program and
26 some money with these ideas. One of the structures in the SMU village was built with bricks made
27 from recycled plastic bags.
They’re
28 together with heavy wires. Harvey Lacey, father of two college-aged sons, including one here at SUM, heard about this project and
29 his invention. It’s a heavy-duty, hand-crank compactor（手动压缩机）that anybody can use to form the big bricks he calls Ubuntu Blox.
“The advantages are that these
30 weigh less than two pounds. They’re very, very
31 These things can go for many generations of housing, ”says Lacey, who is
32 the design. Anybody can follow his online plans to
33 the compactor that turns plastic bags into bricks.
On this warm day, it’s
34 inside the Ubuntu Blox hut, thanks
35 to the thick plastic insulation（绝缘）. Kenyan
36 Ronald Omyonga, visiting the global village before returning to his native Africa, says his country is full of these recyclable bags. With Lacey’s design, he says that litter could be transformed into
37 housing. He dreams of other
38 too.
“Look at the Harvey Lacey hut, as a means of creating
39 ,”says Omyonga.“Leaning the environment, and turning
40 into something that can form houses, not just for the poor.”
| 小题1: | | A．shelters | B．clubs | C．parties | D．rooms |
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| 小题2: | | A．affect | B．adapt | C．effect | D．adopt |
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| 小题3: | | A．discovered | B．helped | C．studied | D．explored |
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| 小题4: | | A．entry | B．competition | C．trade | D．market |
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| 小题5: | | A．save | B．survive | C．defend | D．cure |
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| 小题6: | | A．share | B．donate | C．earn | D．cost |
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| 小题7: | | A．briefly | B．relevantly | C．mostly | D．efficiently |
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| 小题8: | | A．held | B．stressed | C．knocked | D．packed |
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| 小题9: | | A．delivered | B．contributed | C．devoted | D．sacrificed |
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| 小题10: | | A．piles | B．masses | C．loaves | D．blocks |
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| 小题11: | | A．fragile | B．thick | C．hard | D．bitter |
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| 小题12: | | A．giving out | B．giving off | C．giving up | D．giving away |
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| 小题13: | | A．build | B．invent | C．improve | D．possess |
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| 小题15: | | A．nearly | B．exactly | C．partly | D．fairly |
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| 小题16: | | A．doctor | B．athlete | C．photographer | D．architect |
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| 小题17: | | A．safe | B．dangerous | C．beautiful | D．large |
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| 小题18: | | A．advantages | B．chances | C．benefits | D．profits |
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| 小题19: | | A．things | B．jobs | C．wonders | D．conditions |
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| 小题20: | | A．waste | B．resources | C．ideas | D．technology |
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