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When we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones—the kind of high-tech, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U.S. has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be (1) wasteful to tear them all down and (2) them with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses. And it would take an average of 65 years for the (3) carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one. So in the broadest (4) , the greenest home is the one that has already been built. But at the same time, nearly half of U.S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and (5) our homes, offices and other buildings. "You can’t deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings," says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.
With some (6)
[填空题]A new study has shown that we tend to remember the bad times better than the good.
The study, from Boston College psychologist, Elizabeth Kensinger and colleagues, has (36) that we retain and bear in mind events that carry negative emotional burden.
Her research shows that whether an event is pleasing or aversive (厌恶的；引起厌恶的)seems to be a (37) determinant of the accuracy with which the event is remembered, with negative events being remembered in greater detail than positive ones.
To (38) her theory, Kensinger gives the example of a sight of a man on a street holding a gun. After seeing the man, people remember the gun clearly, but they forget the details of the street.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) studies have shown (39) cellular activity in emotion processing regions at the time that a negative event is (40) .
The more activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala,
