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智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景： 美国推出绿色超级计算机 The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago is home to one of the newest, fastest, most efficient supercomputers in the country, called MIRA. But despite the new equipment, lawmakers are concerned that the United States is losing the international supercomputing race, a field it has dominated for decades. 美国能源部在芝加哥郊区阿尔贡国家实验室推出了国内最新、最快、最有效的一个名为MIRA的超级计算机。但是，根据美国之音记者法拉鲍的报道，尽管有这个新的设备，可是美国国会议员担心美国正在失去超级计算机竞争中保持了几十年的的主导权。 Lined up in a sprawling room on the second floor of Argonne National Laboratory’s Theory and Computing Sciences building is the future of supercomputing. 在阿尔贡国家实验室理论和计算机科学-大楼二楼一个硕大的房间内放着未来的超级计算机。 Argonne Director Eric Isaacs says MIRA can go where few computers can. 阿尔贡国家实验室主任埃里克.艾萨克斯说MIRA可以做到几乎很少电脑可以做到的事情。 “A machine like this enables us to start solving complex problems, and by complex problems, I mean problems that have many moving parts, he said. Like a jet engine, a photovoltaic cell, like a grid, if you think about a power grid, a power grid is a very complicated thing.” 阿尔贡国家实验室的埃里克?艾萨克斯说：“像这样的机器可以帮助我们解决一些复杂的问题。我这里所说的复杂的问题指的是那些涉及很多移动部件的问题，像喷气发动机，光伏电池。比如电网，你可以想想电网，这是一个非常复杂的东西。” When construction and assembly of MIRA began, it was projected to be the third fastest computer on the planet, clocking in at around 10 petaflops. MIRA开始建造组装的时候，预计将是这个世界上第三快的计算机。时速大约是10千万亿次。 “That’s 10 quadrillion operations per second. That’s just very fast,” according to Isaacs. 埃里克?艾萨克斯说:“它每秒运算10千万亿次，非常快。” But not fast enough to stay on top. 但是并没有快到遥遥领先。 By the time U.S. Senator Dick Durbin arrived at Argonne for a ceremonial ribbon cutting to officially dedicate the newest machine on the supercomputing block, MIRA had fallen to fifth place in the global ranking of the world’s fastest computers. 当美国参议员迪克?德宾抵达阿尔贡参加最新超级计算机正式投入的剪彩仪式时。在全球计算机的速度排名中，MIRA已经跌至第五位。 “The fastest computer in the world is in China,” Isaacs said. 埃里克?艾萨克斯说：“最快的计算机在中国。” That c