To give the forest a sense of realness,the back wall of the exhibit is an enormous videoscreen,sounds will come out from hidden speakers.and plans even call for forest smells.Computer controls will vary the effects so that no two walkthroughs will ever be exactly the same.
After the team returned to New York.the forest was reproduced with the help of the computer Computer modelling programmes plotted distances and special relationships.Artists studied photos and brought what they saw to 1ife.Plaster trees were made.Recreated animals began to stand in the rainforest of the hall.Flying creatures will hang from the ceiling.The 1ight in the forest—one of the exhibit's cleverest re-creations—will seem real.Long tube 1ights will have the correct colour and temperature to produce a natural effect.The plants and animals exhibited throughout the hall exist naturally in a perfect balance—remove one.and the whole is imperfect if not endangered.The exhibit is proof to the hope that the world's rainforests will never exist solely as a carefully preserved artifact.
词汇:
biodiversity n.生物多样性
document v.纪实性地描述
mammal n.哺乳类动物
organism n.微生物
exhibit n.展品
walkthrough n.开拍前的排练,预排
plot v.为……设定
plaster n.熟石膏
artifact n.人工制品
1. What is this passage mainly about?
A) The history of the American Museum of Natural History.
B)The reproduction of the rainforest at a New York museum.
C)Visitors' interest in the rainforest reproduction at a New York museum
D)Saving rainforests in the Central African Republic.
2.How did the museum collect the data in the Central African Republic?
A)It sent a large team of scientists there.