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An earth-sheltered house is built below grade or completely underground. These homes are less susceptible to the impact of extreme outdoor air temperatures than a conventional house. Earth-sheltered houses also require less outside maintenance, and the earth surrounding the house provides soundproofing. In addition, plans for most earth-sheltered houses "blend" the building into the landscape more harmoniously than a conventional home. Finally, earth-sheltered houses can cost less to insure because they offer extra protection against high winds, hailstorms, and natural disasters such as tornados and hurricanes.
The purpose of this passage is to
(A)persuade the reader against earth-sheltered houses
(B)discuss the construction of earth-sheltered houses
(C)explain the benefits of earth-sheltered houses
(D)describe the aesthetics of earth-sheltered houses
Transcript
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All right see reading shmoop cruz another section for you
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Here We're going to focus on purpose and tone All
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right so let's just read the passage what's its purpose
- 00:14
Well an earth shelter houses built below greater completely underground
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these homes are less susceptible The impact extreme outdoor air
Full Transcript
- 00:20
temperatures than a conventional house earth shelter houses also require
- 00:23
less outside maintenance the earth surrounding the house for soundproofing
- 00:26
In addition plans from most shelter another blend of the
- 00:29
building in the landscape most harmonious than a conventional home
- 00:31
finally or shelter houses cost lots to insure because every
- 00:33
protection gets high wind tales from national disaster engineers and
- 00:36
hurricanes It sounds like a marketing document to me What
- 00:39
do you think Well let's see from natural climate control
- 00:42
to affordable living this passage highlights the benefits of earth
- 00:45
sheltered houses And thank goodness because well we were wondering
- 00:49
why anyone would want to live underground unless they were
- 00:52
a mole In fact the passage really does read like
- 00:55
an infomercial right there Pretty They're protective They cost less
- 00:58
by now Yeah That's it all right It's c explained
- 01:01
the benefits of earth sheltered houses and loser bowl down
- 01:05
here Well because the all the details offered our positive
- 01:08
well we know the passage isn't persuading us against anything
- 01:12
So give her a passage Doesn't dive too deep into
- 01:15
even the construction or aesthetics of bruce sheltered houses So
- 01:18
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