2021-2022学年度第42期总第779期
Uploading Earth (P6)
河北师范大学附属中学 刘洁
I. Lead in
China’s manned spacecraft Shenzhou XIII carried three astronauts and landed safely in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on April 15.

Humans have never stopped exploring the universe and the Earth.

II. Read for general information
Read the article quickly and find its main idea.
The European Union is designing a so-called digital twin of the Earth, allowing scientists to run simulations to anticipate extreme weather events and other impacts of climate change.

III. Read for details
Read and answer the following questions.

1. How does Destination Earth work?
2. What can Destination Earth do to help scientists?
3. What is the advantage of Destination Earth compared with existing climate simulation programs?
4. Why is it urgent to understand how the climate works?
5. What does the most recent report from IPCC suggest?
6. What is the significance of Destination Earth?

1. How does Destination Earth work?
It will use artificial intelligence and supercomputing to input and analyze climate data at high resolutions.

2. What can Destination Earth do to help scientists?
It can predict a number of hazards including storms, droughts and rising sea levels.
It will allow scientists to create a simulation of the planet and its climate and then experiment with changes in different conditions.
It will also help monitor food security, changes in the polar regions and global sea level rises.

3. What is the advantage of Destination Earth compared with existing climate simulation programs?
It will use a supercomputing network that would allow for a far higher resolution, which will better predict more localized impacts of climate change.

4. Why is it urgent to understand how the climate works?
Because it is important for tackling the impact of global warming.

5. What does the most recent report from IPCC suggest?
It suggests that the world must peak emissions by 2025 to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to between 2 and 1.5 C this century.

6. What is the significance of Destination Earth?
It is a key initiative for Europe’s green transitions because it will provide reliable and detailed information to help policymakers to anticipate and mitigate the effects of climate change, saving lives and alleviating economic consequences in cases of natural disasters.

IV. Discussion
What can students do to protect the Earth and make it a better home for humans?

V. Language study
1. a wealth of
2. anticipate
3. artificial intelligence
4. high resolutions
5. localized
6. the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
很多
预测；期盼
人工智能
高分辨率
小范围内的，局部的
联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会
7. tackle
8. initiative
9. unprecedented
10. alleviate
11. integrated
12. replica
应对
倡议
前所未有的
减轻
综合的，完整统一的
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