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TSI Reading: Why Would Somebody Choose to Live in an Icelandic Turf House? 6 Views


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A person would most likely choose to live in an Icelandic turf house because the house

(A)is extremely modern and fashionable
(B)contains natural heating and cooling systems
(C)stands out from the natural landscape
(D)has been fitted with turf blocks


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Get right down on the first question A person would

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most likely choose to live in an icelandic turf house

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And because they lost the lottery ono Because the house

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what What All right Well let's go back here and

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do some reading and her shelter houses building below greater

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community underground Home to left seven billion pound extreme after

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air times your conventional house her shelter house are required

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on last maintenance area surrounding our house Run an additional

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playing from here and finally her shelter and cost less

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to ensure because they're extra protection I winter New training

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Okay that was message one past two and icelandic turf

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house and her shelter has made of wooden frame Secondly

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around joins with decorative going home A great fired for

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being a stone Wood and grass huh Interesting Yeah these

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air not going to show up any time soon And

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manhattan Well the details in first passage help to explain

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the benefits of earth sheltered houses They're easier to heat

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and cool and less susceptible to natural disasters And oh

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there So many natural disasters in iceland Snow wind rain

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bad financial decisions Okay well we know from the second

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pastors at the icelandic turf house was a type of

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earth sheltered house hence the turf blocks and earth and

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floors So it probably provided decent climate control fourth time

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so the answer is b just contains natural heating cooling

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systems that's kind of cool all right well loser bowl

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here that wasn't right while depending on one's perception of

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style and fashion and earth sheltered house may or may

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not be a hip Regardless neither passage claims of these

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homes are celebrated for their sleek look All of the

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first passage actually states that these houses blend in more

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with the natural landscape so that's kind of nice right

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If you're hiding from aliens it's Great well it's True

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the icelandic turf house was fitted with turf blocks that's

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not necessarily why people lived in them it's like saying

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people use iphones because they're made with aluminum really in

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