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 　　Tekapo is a special place. This small town has a big observatory1 at Mount2 John, 1000m above the town. It has six telescopes including New Zealand’s biggest telescope with a diameter of 1.8m, built with Japanese money. The observatory is operated by the University of Canterbury. University astronomers3 work here with astronomers from Nagoya University, Japan.

　　The town of Tekapo is very careful that their street lights don’t shine upwards4. Astronomers need a dark sky to watch the stars. Yesterday the astronomers at a conference in Tekapo learnt the news that this area in the Mackenzie country will be called a Dark Sky Reserve. The area includes Mt Cook village, Twizel and Tekapo – 4,300 square km, the biggest Dark Sky Reserve in the world. There are only four of these reserves – one in Exmoor, England, one in Quebec, Canada, one in Namibia, Africa, and now this one in the South island of New Zealand. It is also the only gold-level dark sky reserve which means it is very dark and excellent for viewing stars.
　　Mt John has a road up to the top. There are night tours for tourists who want to look through telescopes at the stars.
　　Vocabulary
　　diameter – 2 x radius5; distance across a circle
　　operated – controlled
　　reserve – a protected place, like a park.
　　watch, view, look at stars. They all mean the same

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1 observatory hRgzP     
n.天文台，气象台，瞭望台，观测台
参考例句：
  • Guy's house was close to the observatory.盖伊的房子离天文台很近。
  • Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次。
2 mount 6Fixv     
n.山峰，乘用马，框，衬纸；vi.增长，骑上（马）；vt.提升，爬上，装备
参考例句：
  • Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
  • She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。
3 astronomers 569155f16962e086bd7de77deceefcbd     
n.天文学者，天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪，为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 upwards lj5wR     
adv.向上，在更高处...以上
参考例句：
  • The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
  • The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。
5 radius LTKxp     
n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限
参考例句：
  • He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
  • We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。

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