The Sense of Flavour

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题目与答案

1. 1 The brain determines which aromas we are aware of.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：The mind filters out the overwhelming majority of chemical aromas that surround us, focusing intently on some, ignoring others

2. in the past, the reason why so many explorers ventured to distant lands to bring back new 10_____ which were greatly sought after in Europe.

   答案：seasonings

   原文定位：Christopher Columbus set sail in order to try to find new seasonings

   同义替换：「seasonings」↔「spices」

3. Here they were used in cooking to enhance the usual 11_____ and unappetizing dishes eaten by rich and poor alike.

   答案：flavour

   原文定位：Toddlers can learn to enjoy hot and spicy food, bland health food, or fast food

4. We associate certain smells with the past as they are 12_____ .

   答案：indelible

   原文定位：The flavours of childhood foods seem to leave an indelible mark, and adults often return to them

   同义替换：「associate certain」↔「evoke 」，「with the past」↔「a long-forgotten moment」

5. Modern technology is able to help determine the minute quantities of 13_____ found in food.

   答案：chemical aromas

   原文定位：Today’s sophisticated spectrometers, gas chromatograph, and headspace vapor analyzers provide a detailed map of a food’s flavour components, detecting chemical aromas in amounts as low as one part per billion

   同义替换：「minute quantities」↔「amounts as low as one part per billion」，「determine」↔「detecting」，「Modern technology」↔「spectrometers, gas chromatograph, headspace vapor analyzers」

6. 2 The sense of taste is as efficient as the sense of smell.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：Tastebuds offers a limited means of detection, however, compared with the human olfactory system, which can perceive thousands of different chemical aromas

   同义替换：「sense of taste」↔「tastebuds」，「sense of smell」↔「olfactory system」，「efficient」↔「means of detection」

7. 3 Personal tastes in food are developed in infancy.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：A person’s food preferences, like his or her personality, are formed during the first few years of life

   同义替换：「Personal tastes」↔「preferences」，「developed」↔「formed」，「in infancy」↔「during the first few years of life」

8. 4 Christopher Columbus found many different spices on his travels.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail in order to try to find new seasonings and thus to make his fortune with this most desired commodity of that time

9. 5 In the mid-1880s, man-made flavors were originally invented on purpose.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：Legend has it that a German scientist discovered methyl anthranilate, one of the first artificial flavours, by accident while mixing chemicals in his laboratory

   同义替换：「man-made」↔「artificial」，「invented」↔「discovered」，「on purpose」↔「by accident」

10. It is thought that the sense of taste was 6_____ in order to 7_____ the foods

    答案：acquired|||differentiate

    原文定位：Scientists now believe that human beings acquired the sense of taste as a way to avoid being poisoned;Taste is supposed to help us differentiate food that’s good for us from food that’s not

11. the foods which are harmless to us from those that are not 8_____ .

    答案：good

    原文定位：Taste is supposed to help us differentiate food that’s good for us from food that’s not

    同义替换：「harmless」↔「good」

12. The sense of smell, which gives us the flavour we detect in our food, helps us to take pleasure in our food. Indeed this 9_____ for flavour was,

    答案：craving

    原文定位：The human craving for flavour has been a large unacknowledged and unexamined force in history

    同义替换：「was the reason why」↔「force in history」