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Book 1 Unit2 Travelling Around
Part 3 配套式作业----精读泛读二合一
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Ⅰ.阅读理解
A(2022·重庆市七校联考)
In 2017,the United Arab Emirates announced its ambition to colonize Mars within the next 100 years.But architects are already imagining what a Martian city might look like and planning to create it in the desert outside Dubai.
Mars Science City was originally scheduled to cover 176,000 square meters of desert——the size of more than 30 football fields——and cost approximately 135 million dollars.To create a space for Dubai's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre(MBRSC)to develop the technology needed to colonize Mars,architects in Bjarke Ingels Group were asked to design a prototype of a city suitable for sustaining life on Mars,and then adapt it for use in the Emirati desert.
For this unique commission,the architects first had to overcome the immense challenges of creating a design to make the severe environment of Mars habitable.Mars has a thin atmosphere and no global magnetic field, so there's little