The museum's new building, with its glass facade and vast galleries, was designed to house a growing collection of ancient artifacts.
博物馆的新建筑采用玻璃外墙和宽敞的展厅，旨在容纳不断增加的古代文物收藏。
Archaeologists excavating a Bronze Age settlement found large storage jars filled with charred grain in nearly every household they examined, alongside no evidence of a centralized granary or communal storage building anywhere in the settlement.
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Venice was built on more than a hundred small islands in a lagoon, and its buildings rest on wooden pilings driven deep into the mud below; remarkably, many of these pilings, submerged and starved of oxygen for centuries, have effectively petrified rather than rotted.
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A building manager claims that mold-related requests are strongly associated with humidity, with higher humidity linked to more requests.
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Which choice best defines “building”?
A — A structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory. “building” means a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory.
Which word means “a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory”?
C — building. “building” means a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory.
building — a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory. In Chinese: 建筑物.
building is pronounced /ˈbɪldɪŋ/.
The museum's new building, with its glass facade and vast galleries, was designed to house a growing collection of ancient artifacts. (博物馆的新建筑采用玻璃外墙和宽敞的展厅，旨在容纳不断增加的古代文物收藏。)
structure, edifice, construction — all close in meaning to building (a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory).
Yes. building is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.