1 . A teenager has created “the entire known universe” in the popular computer game Mine craft over the course of two months. In the game’s creative mode, players can build structures using blocks.
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Slayton started by building the Earth. He used a globe to measure the exact location of every continent lo perfectly copy the planet. He went on to build planets, stars, galaxies and space gas.
In a video, Slayton explained that he started skydiving so he could see the planet from a different perspective, before using mathematical concepts to make sure that the universe was made to an accurate scale. In order to fit all of the planets in the universe into the simulation(模拟), every planet would need to be 700,000 times smaller.
Eventually, Slayton was working on structures that are much larger than the Earth, like the sun. He used the brightest blocks in the game to build the star, adding solar flares(光) to make it “feel alive”.
Building even larger structures―such as the Pillars of Creation, elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula—took Slayton two days to simply make the colors accurate, before painting the stars and their shine in the background.
Many other impressive builds have been made in Mine craft. In 2020, a player created a life-size recreation of the Earth, bypassing the game’s built-in height limit to recreate Mount Everest and the Grand Canyon at their full scale.
The game is also a powerful learning tool for geography, history and even finance. “Mine craft exposes children to complicated financial systems,” Teacher Gaming co-founder Joel Levin told The Independent. “Perhaps the most effective experiences come from having teachers get out of the way and letting the students play on their own. With a bit of coaching, this type of experience can lead to amazing conversations about digital citizenship, online identity and responsibility,” Levin said.
1. What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 3?| A．Getting the scale right. | B．Measuring the continents. |
| C．Fitting the planets in. | D．Launching skydiving. |
| A．Risky. | B．Painstaking. | C．Cooperative. | D．Interactive. |
| A．Conversations should happen before kids play Mine e raft. |
| B．Questions of online identity will arise after kids play Mine craft. |
| C．Levin coaches his students about how to build universe models. |
| D．Mine craft can be an educational experience even if children play it alone. |
| A．Mine craft, a Good Learning Tool |
| B．Mine craft, a Model of the Universe |
| C．Impressive Builds Made in Mine craft |
| D．A Teen Recreates the Universe in Mine craft |
