• Nível B2
• Interpretação de texto
• Referência textual
• artigo de divulgacao cientifica
• Albert Einstein
• 2026

The scenery: a que se refere o termo (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.

The scenery forms the perfect background for the futuristic experiment that once took place here. In the early 1990s, eight people locked themselves inside, sealed off from the outside world for two years, to explore the challenges of living in a self-contained system.

(Katarina Zimmer. www.bbc.com, 05.07.2025. Adapted.)

Fonte: BBC, 2025-07-05.

In the excerpt from the second paragraph "The scenery forms the perfect background for the futuristic experiment that once took place here", the underlined term refers to

1. A A) the perfectness with which Biosphere 2 was constructed.
2. B B) the desert of Arizona and its geographical features.
3. C C) the innovative architecture of the Biosphere 2 complex.
4. D D) the unusual experience of living inside a capsule for two years.
5. E E) the science fiction reality of the Biosphere 2 human colony.