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内容来源：《21世纪英文报》 初一第766期
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Data set to move out west
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You may have heard a lot about the word “cloud”. Not the clouds in the sky, but the “cloud” that stores your photos, emails, movies and music.
The name might make you think that it’s just like real clouds. But in fact, it’s made of millions of hard drives (硬盘), computer servers (服务器) and fiber-optic cables (光纤电缆). When you open a website (网站) online, you are actually asking a server to give you data (数据). The data may travel thousands of kilometers from a data center to your computer, through cables underground.
1. Where are these data centers? In China, most are now in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. They take up lots of land and energy (电能). According to Economic Information Daily, data centers in Beijing used more than 8 percent of the total energy used by the city in 2018.
2. Recently, China made plans to build 10 data center groups in eight areas. Many are in western and northern regions like Ningxia, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and Guizhou.
3. There is more land in these areas. They also have more green energy, like wind and solar energy (太阳能). This can make the data centers more environmentally friendly.
4. Building data centers can also help the development of these areas.
你可能听说过很多关于“云”这个词。不是天空中的云，而是存储照片、电子邮件、电影和音乐的“云”。
这个名字可能会让你觉得它就像真的云。但事实上，它是由数百万个硬盘, 计算机服务器以及光纤电缆组成的. 当你在网上打开一个网站时，你实际上是在要求服务器给你提供数据. 这些数据可能通过地下电缆从数据中心经过数千公里传输到你的计算机上。
1.这些数据中心在哪里？在中国，现在大多数都在北京、上海和广州等大城市。它们占用了大量土地和电能. 据《经济信息报》报道，2018年，北京的数据中心使用的电能占全市总使用电量的8%以上。
2.最近，中国计划在八个地区建设10个数据中心组。许多在西部和北部地区，如宁夏、甘肃、内蒙古和贵州。
3.这些地区有更多的土地。它们也有更多的绿色能源，比如风能和太阳能. 这可以使数据中心更加环保。
4.建设数据中心也有助于这些领域的发展。
重点词汇：
data [ˈdeɪtə]n. 数据
hard drives 硬盘
computer servers 服务器
fiber-optic cables 光纤电缆
solar energy 太阳能
take up 占据
make plans to do sth. 计划做某事
阅读理解练一练
1. What does “the cloud” mean from this passage?
A: Study clouds in the sky.
B: Travel to faraway places.
C: Build data centers.
D: Store their data.
2. What is the cloud made of?
a: coumputer monitors(显示器)
b: hard drives
c: computer severs
d: cables underground
A. abc B. abd C. bcd D. acd
3. What can we learn about data centers?
A. They use lots of energy.
B. Most of them are in Beijing.
C. They came online in 2018.
D. They are bad for people's health.
4. What are the last two parts about?
A. What data centers should be like.
B. What China plans to do in these eight areas.
C. Why data centers will come to these eight areas.
D. Why building data centers can help cities grow.
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