Wind Tunnel Tests Improve Turbine Power
Read the whole story in the app
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists test wind turbines in a tunnel.
- A2
Scientists tested wind turbines in a wind tunnel.
- B1
Researchers used a highly pressurized wind tunnel to simulate winds in the atmosphere.
- B2
Researchers used a highly pressurized wind tunnel to accurately simulate how atmospheric winds interact with wind turbines.
- C1
Testing a wind turbine in the real world is difficult because weather conditions constantly change.
- C2
Testing a wind turbine in the real world is an exercise in frustration.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- simulate
- to create conditions that are similar to real life
- interact
- to communicate with or react to each other
- mimic
- to copy the way something looks, sounds, or behaves
- misaligned
- not positioned correctly in relation to something else
- validate
- to prove that something is correct or true
- revenue
- money that a business or organization earns
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.