A little capsule of Earth: sentido da expressão (Albert Einstein 2026)

In the middle of the vast Arizona desert, in the United States, there's a structure that seems taken straight out of the pages of science fiction. Inside a massive complex of glass pyramids and towers, spread across 1.2 hectares, stands a tropical rainforest topped by a 7.6-meter-high waterfall, a savannah and a fog desert. It's seemingly a little capsule of Earth, which is why the structure is called Biosphere 2 — named after our own planet, Biosphere 1.
(Katarina Zimmer. www.bbc.com, 05.07.2025. Adapted.)

Fonte: BBC, 2025-07-05.

In the fragment from the first paragraph "It's seemingly a little capsule of Earth", the underlined expression means

A) a miniature of Earth.
B) a geological formation on Earth's surface.
C) a portion of Earth inside a capsule.
D) a remedy capsule to save the Earth.
E) a spaceship capsule down on Earth.

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Resposta correta: A

A expressão aparece logo depois da lista de ambientes reunidos num só lugar — floresta tropical, savana e deserto — e é justificada pela frase seguinte, que explica o nome Biosphere 2 "named after our own planet, Biosphere 1". Trata-se, portanto, de uma reprodução da Terra em escala reduzida: uma miniatura. As alternativas D e E tomam "capsule" no sentido literal de cápsula de remédio ou de nave, sentidos que o contexto não sustenta.

A little capsule of Earth: sentido da expressão (Albert Einstein 2026)

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