The Sense of Smell

题目与答案

1. The animal with the best sense of smell is the 31_____ .

   答案：bear

   原文定位：the creature which is believed to have the most acute sense of smell of all, the bear

   同义替换：「best sense of smell」↔「most acute sense of smell of all」，「animal」↔「creature」

2. The human sense of smell may be stronger than we imagine.

   Smell can influence our mood and the choices we make.

   However, we are not usually aware of this, maybe because we can`t easily identify the 32_____ of smell.

   答案：source

   原文定位：One possible reason is that our noses aren't well equipped to detect the source of an odor, and so we dismiss it

   同义替换：「can't easily identify」↔「aren't well equipped to detect」，「smell」↔「odor」

3. Some examples of how smell influence people

   Selling houses: the smell of fresh 33_____ makes potential buyers find a house desirable.

   答案：bread

   原文定位：They often suggest that people who want to sell a house arrange things so that there is a smell of newly baked bread on the property to encourage viewers to want to buy it

   同义替换：「fresh」↔「newly baked」，「potential buyers」↔「viewers」，「find a house desirable」↔「encourage viewers to want to buy it」

4. A Dutch study found the smell of 34_____ made people enjoy a nightclub more.

   答案：oranges

   原文定位：They discovered, rather to their surprise, that when the aroma of oranges was pumped into the venue, the guests partied harder;rated their night as more enjoyable

   同义替换：「smell」↔「aroma」，「enjoy a nightclub more」↔「rated their night as more enjoyable」

5. Another study found that specific smell encouraged students to 35_____ a shared room.

   答案：clean

   原文定位：Another study found that the hint of a smell;was enough to persuade students to clean the communal kitchen after using it

   同义替换：「encouraged」↔「persuade」，「shared room」↔「communal kitchen」

6. A new smell makes us less likely to base a decision on 36_____ .

   答案：logic

   原文定位：It found that subjecting people to a new smell;let people relying on their emotions to make a decision rather than relying on logic

   同义替换：「less likely to base a decision on」↔「rather than relying on」

7. Can we smell fear?

   A team of scientists collected the sweat of people when doing a skydive and when using a 37_____ .

   They found subjects responded more strongly to the sky divers.

   答案：gym

   原文定位：They also took sweat samples from the same people after they had worked up their sweat in a gym, a situation where no fear is involved

   同义替换：「collected the sweat」↔「took sweat samples」，「using」↔「in」

8. After smelling “fear” sweat, people paid equal attention to 38_____ facial expressions.

   答案：neutral

   原文定位：However, after smelling the fear sweat, the participants gave the same amount of attention to neutral facial expressions

   同义替换：「paid equal」↔「gave the same amount of」

9. Training noses

   Subjects` eyes and ears were covered and they had to practise following the smell of 39_____ .

   答案：chocolate

   原文定位：They persuaded thirty-two students to wear blindfolds and ear defenders and see whether they could sniff out a trail of chocolate

   同义替换：「eyes and ears were covered」↔「wear blindfolds and ear defenders」，「following the smell of」↔「sniff out a trail of」

10. A chef was able to bring back her sense of smell by regularly smelling 40_____ .

    答案：spices

    原文定位：she trained herself gradually by sniffing spices for ten minutes a day. Gradually, her ability to smell returned

    同义替换：「smelling」↔「sniffing」，「regularly」↔「ten minutes a day」