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一宇宙级浪漫！这所大学在太空中有了专属的星

2022-03-25 12:32 发表于北京

An asteroid(小行星) has been named after Huazhong University of Science and Technology

(HUST), a comprehensive research university, the National Astronomical Observatories of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

A ceremony1._______(take) place online and offline on Monday to announce the naming of

Asteroid Huazhongkejida (Chinese pinyin of HUST（Huazhong University of Science and

Technology), 2.___________(approve) by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

The last three numbers, 487 in the asteroid code, are consistent 3.____HUST's recorded

number in the Ministry of Education, said the IAU.

According to an IAU communique, the asteroid coded 52487 4.______________(discover)in

1995 by astronomers at the Xinglong Observatory of National Astronomical Observatories, CAS.

HUST has made many advanced sci-tech 5.___________(breakthrough)and

6.__________(active)promoted interdisciplinary(adj. 跨学科的)studies such as physics,

astronomy, and space science. HUST also 7._____________( establish)the first Astronomy

Department in central China.

Asteroids are the only celestial bodies 8.______________(name)by their discoverers. The

naming 9.____________(consider)an international and permanent honor.

Important vocabulary

comprehensive /ˌkɑːmprɪˈhensɪv/adj. 综合性的，全面的；有理解力的

comprehension /ˌkɑːmprɪˈhenʃ(ə)n/n. 理解力，领悟力

reading comprehension阅读理解；阅读测验

Observatory /əbˈzɜːrvətɔːri/n. 天文台，气象台

observe /əbˈzɜːrv/v. 注意到，观察到；观测，发现；说话，评论；遵守（规则、法律等）；

庆祝（节日）

ceremony /ˈserəmoʊni/n. 仪式，典礼

approve /əˈpruːv/v. 同意，赞成；批准，通过

approval /əˈpruːv(ə)l/n. 称许，赞成

disapproval /ˌdɪsəˈpruːvl/n. 不赞同，反对

code/kəʊd/美/koʊd/n. 密码，代码

be consistent with/bi kənˈsɪstənt wɪð/与……相符，与……一致

consist of 由……组成

Our house consists three rooms.

communique/kəˌmjuːnəˈkeɪ/n. 公报，官报

make a breakthrough有重大发展或突破

promote/prəˈmoʊt/v. 促进，提倡；升职

establish/ɪˈstæblɪʃ/v. 建立，设立

permanent /ˈpɜːrmənənt/adj. 永久的，永恒的

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.(无热情成就不了伟业。)

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A virtual metaverse museum serves as a collection for memes

新奇“梗博物馆”记录20年网络梗发展史

If the metaverse (元宇宙) is a developing world, then Siji is a builder and developer of it. He

has built a museum in this virtual world – a museum about Chinese memes (梗).

The Chinese Memes Museum is on a VR platform called VRChat, which is free 1________

everyone to visit. It stores more than 250 popular Chinese internet memes from the past 20 years.

Some memes 2________________(present) as pictures and text descriptions, while around 100

pieces are 3D exhibits. For example, there is a “cannon (炮)” to show the “Italian cannon” meme

from the 2005 TV series, Drawing Sword (《亮剑》).

Born in 1993, Siji 3___________(grow) up during the booming of the internet and is right at

home with online culture. According to him, the memes show the changing and developing nature

of this culture.

To better show this, Siji designed seven different exhibition halls in his museum, four of

4_________ follow a timeline. In 5__________early 2000s, many memes came from photos.

Then they became more video-focused in the 2010s. For example, in 2007, the auto-tune remix

videos (鬼畜视频) of Jinkela fertilizer became a hit meme. 6____________it comes to the recent

10 years, memes have more different sources including animation, comics and games.

Each of the other three exhibition halls has a theme. In the “ACG” hall, there are cutouts (剪

纸板) of the virtual idol, Hatsune Miku (初音未来). In the “Homeland” hall, you’ll find the “off

you go (走你)” meme 7_____________(describe) when planes took off from China’s first aircraft

carrier (航空母舰).

Siji and his friends spent about three months 8____________(create) the museum. Since

opening in June, more than 100,000 people 9___________(visit) it. “This is my ideal of

10_______the metaverse should be like – people traveling, entertaining and doing things from real

life but in a funnier and more imaginative way,” said Siji.

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三气候变暖也许会导致更多彩虹出现

Rainbows are often seen 1 ______signs of hope. And we are likely to see more of them due

to global warming, according to a new study 2 _____________(publish) in the journal Global

Environmental Change.

The research team gathered 121,558 rainbow pictures from the internet3 _________(take)

between 2004 and 2019. They then used the 4 ___________(photo) to form a database which

allowed the researchers 5 ____________(learn) the patterns of how rainbows occur.

Rainbows only appear with a 6 ___________(suit) angle of the sun, rainfall and less clouds.

Due to the emission of greenhouse gases, there will be more rainfall and less clouds, 7

__________can lead to more rainbows in the future.

The team also predicted that global rainbow 8 _______________(occur)might increase by 4

to 5 percent by 2100. However, some places in the world may witness fewer rainbows. For

example, the climate in tropical areas in Africa and South America may be 9 ___________(dry)

with less rainfall.

The researchers also called on more studies about how people’s lives can 10

________________(affect), apart from the changes we are already familiar 11 ________. “Shifts

in intangible (无形的) parts of our environment – such as sound and light – are part of these

changes and deserve more attention from researchers,” the lead author of the study Kimberly

Carlson said to Science X Network.