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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.
According to the passage, one benefit of earth-sheltered homes is that they
(A)have natural climate control
(B)don't require the installation of solar panels
(C)stand out compared to traditional homes
(D)allow noise to be shared freely with neighboring homes
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay next up on the t s a reading journey
- 00:04
This is so much fun okay the question according to
- 00:07
passage One benefit of earth sheltered homes is that they
- 00:10
what Okay so we're looking at one benefit according to
- 00:16
the passage not that we just make up out of
Full Transcript
- 00:18
our heads and our sheltered houses built below greater completely
- 00:22
underground These homes are less susceptible than the impact of
- 00:24
extreme outdoor air temperatures and a conventional house or sheltered
- 00:28
house also require less outside main insecure surrounding the house
- 00:30
price soundproofing you should plant from assertion and blend the
- 00:33
building the lance give high winds hailstorm natural disasters tornadoes
- 00:36
and hurricanes Okay well let's think about this We've always
- 00:39
wanted a house built into the earth kind of like
- 00:42
our friendly friends imprinting on the town here earth sheltered
- 00:46
houses are less susceptible see right there to extreme outdoor
- 00:50
temperatures which means they offer some level of natural climate
- 00:54
control built in when you have the earth protect itself
- 00:58
from itself can't get benefit there so the answer's got
- 01:01
to be a right The passage doesn't mention solar panels
- 01:04
so that's alec where'd that come from passage also states
- 01:06
that earth sheltered houses blend in better than traditional home
- 01:09
so they don't stand out get rid of safe and
- 01:12
the natural sound proofing makes it much harder to annoy
- 01:14
your neighbors Okay so the answer is a have natural 00:01:17.939 --> [endTime] climate control Yeah my branches
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