High 1 · Reading series
Lesson 55 · A Map of Shared Weather
Audio track 55
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Our class exchanged weather notes with a school in another region. Each group recorded the time, cloud cover, and temperature outside a shaded classroom window. At the end of the month, we placed the reports on a shared map.
I wanted to compare the warmest number from each school. Our partner pointed out that one reading had been taken at noon and the other early in the morning. The instruments might also have been placed differently. We agreed to compare notes taken at similar times and to write down how each measurement was made.
The map still showed differences, but we did not call one town “always hotter.” A month of school-day observations was too small for that claim. Instead, we used the map to ask why particular days had felt different.
We had not shared the same weather. We had shared a way to observe it, and that made our questions easier to discuss across the distance.
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Chinese translation
我们班和另一个地区的学校交换天气记录。每组在背阴的教室窗外记下时间、云量和温度。月底，我们把报告放在同一张地图上。
我想比较两校最高的读数。合作学校的同学指出，一处是在正午测的，另一处却是在清晨。仪器摆放的位置也可能不同。我们于是决定比较相近时段的记录，并写清每次测量是怎么做的。
地图上仍显示出差异，但我们没有说某一座城镇‘总是更热’。一个月内、只在上学日采集的观察，无法支持这样的结论。我们转而用地图追问：为什么某几天的感觉有所不同？
我们并没有经历相同的天气，却分享了一种观察方法。这让相隔两地的提问更容易得到讨论。
Key words and expressions
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- region
- 地区；合作学校位于另一处。
- cloud cover
- 云量；与时间和温度一起记录。
- temperature
- 温度；需要在可比条件下测量。
- shared map
- 共用地图；两校把数据放在一起。
- reading
- 读数；不能直接比较不同时间的数据。
- instrument
- 仪器；摆放方式可能有差异。
- measurement
- 测量；需说明具体做法。
- similar
- 相近的；宜比较相似时段。
- claim
- 断言；不应说某城总是更热。
- particular
- 特定的；可研究某几天的差异。
Background notes (Chinese)
比较气温要注意测量时段、位置与仪器条件。一个月的上学日记录可以引发问题，却不足以证明一个地方一年到头都更热。