Tea Tree Oil

题目与答案

1. Aborigines
   • brought tea oil into Australia in 1770
   • challenged the benefit of tea tree oil
   • reported the special eating habit in Australia
   • listed plant species
   • studied the tea tree oil
   • saw Australian Aborigines drink

   答案：used tea tree for medical treatment

   原文定位：Traditionally, Melaleuca alternifolia leaves were crushed, and the oil was inhaled by the Aborigines of Australia for the treatment of coughs, colds, and also for the treatment of wounds. For instance, they chewed the young leaves to alleviate headaches and took them to treat sore throats or skin ailments

2. Dutch explorer
   • brought tea oil into Australia in 1770
   • challenged the benefit of tea tree oil
   • reported the special eating habit in Australia
   • listed plant species
   • studied the tea tree oil
   • saw Australian Aborigines drink

   答案：reported the special eating habit in Australia

   原文定位：These unwanted plants compete with crops for essential nutrients, sunlight, and water, often reducing overall yield. The Aborigines world was discovered by Willem Janszoon, a Dutch explorer who was the first European to sail to Australia;Besides, they found the characteristics of the diet there because they happened to meet ten naked black Aborigines having a meal in the open air

   同义替换：「found the characteristics of the diet」↔「reported the special eating habit」，「having a meal in the open air」↔「eating habit」

3. Sir Hugh Palliser
   • brought tea oil into Australia in 1770
   • challenged the benefit of tea tree oil
   • reported the special eating habit in Australia
   • listed plant species
   • studied the tea tree oil
   • saw Australian Aborigines drink

   答案：challenged the benefit of tea tree oil

   原文定位：In the middle of the eighteenth century, Sir Hugh Palliser, an officer of the British Royal Navy who had been to Australia several times during that period, got serious injuries all over due to his experiences in several wars. For more than the last fifteen or sixteen years of his life, he seldom laid down on a bed because of the constant pain in his leg. Then he tried tea tree oil as it was said that tea tree oil could operate as a very powerful immunostimulant for pre and post-surgical care

4. Captain James Cook
   • brought tea oil into Australia in 1770
   • challenged the benefit of tea tree oil
   • reported the special eating habit in Australia
   • listed plant species
   • studied the tea tree oil
   • saw Australian Aborigines drink

   答案：saw Australian Aborigines drink

   原文定位：The use of the name tea tree, also called paperbark trees, probably originated from Captain James Cook's description he made soon after he had arrived at the coast of New South Wales in seventeen seventy. At the time, he witnessed some Aborigines of Australia using one of the shrub's leaves to make an infused drink in place of tea

   同义替换：「witnessed」↔「saw」

5. Dr. Arthur Penfold
   • brought tea oil into Australia in 1770
   • challenged the benefit of tea tree oil
   • reported the special eating habit in Australia
   • listed plant species
   • studied the tea tree oil
   • saw Australian Aborigines drink

   答案：studied the tea tree oil

   原文定位：In the nineteen twenties, some human clinical research and the documentation of many benefits associated with tea tree oil were credited, which were made by Dr. Arthur Penfold, an Australian government chemist. He investigated the business potential of a number of native extracted oils, then reported that tea tree oil was promising as it exhibited powerful antiseptic properties

   同义替换：「research」↔「studied」

6. the process of tea tree oil extraction

   Tea tree will store oil during 36_____ and accumulate the useful substance.

   答案：winter

   原文定位：Once harvested in winter, when the amount of required essence in oil meets the needs for production, the finely cut trees are transported to a steam distillation facility

   同义替换：「accumulate the useful substance」↔「the amount of required essence in oil」

7. Put leaves and 37_____ in for distillation.

   答案：stems

   原文定位：The extraction is made by distilling the leaves in specially designed stainless steel stills along with the stems to yield pure oil

8. The oil vapor rises up to the 38_____ of the container.

   答案：lid

   原文定位：Both the steam and oil evaporate and then condense as they run through a pipe into the collecting container where the oil floats to the lid, while the water, because of gravity, goes steadily out the lower exit pipe

   同义替换：「vapor」↔「evaporates」，「rises up to」↔「floats to」

9. According to the principle of 39_____ , the condensed steam goes downside.

   答案：gravity

   原文定位：Both the steam and oil evaporate and then condense as they run through a pipe into the collecting container where the oil floats to the lid, while the water, because of gravity, goes steadily out the lower exit pipe

   同义替换：「goes downside」↔「goes steadily out the lower exit pipe」

10. The water will go through the tubes into the 40_____ .

    答案：ground

    原文定位：At the end of the hour, the oil is siphoned off through the upper pipe, while the condensed steam floats through the lower pipe towards the ground

    同义替换：「go through the tubes」↔「floats through the lower pipe」