Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plan. So airlines(航空公司)offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?

To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don’t want to lose customers.

However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude(海拔)we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure(气压)reduces one third of the sensibility(感觉)of our taste buds(味蕾). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don’t know it.

All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy(辛辣的)food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.

1.In Paragraph 2, “this problem” means ______.

A.passengers stay long in the plane

B.food on the plane tastes bad

C.passengers have no food to eat

D.food on the plane is expensive

2.What do airlines do to solve this problem?

A.Get more customers. B.Offer more food.

C.Improve their food. D.Reduce the ticket price.

3.As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces of the sensibility of our taste buds.

A.half B.one third

C.one fourth D.one fifth

4.Why do scientists feel it hard to made food on the plane taste good?

A.The volunteers don’t know about food taste.

B.The volunteers don’t understand them.

C.They can’t find enough volunteers.

D.They can’t deal with the special environment successfully.

5.What is the best title of the passage?

A.Taste of Airplane Food

B.Airplane Travel

C.Scientific Research on Noses

D.The Change in Air Pressure

Garbage or trash is a main kind of environmental pollution. Each person makes about two kilograms a day. We are making waste faster than nature can break them down. And we are running out of resources(资源)faster than they can be dealt with. This increases troubles for the environment .Where does all that garbage go? What can be done to help deal with garbage? How can we make less garbage?

Garbage isn’t just the rotting (腐烂的) fruit, vegetables or meat that we throw away in our homes, schools or supermarkets. Those are only a small part of all the things we throw away. We create the most waste in construction, mining and in our factories.

___________Most is burned or buried in landfills( 垃圾填埋场)Less than a quarter of our waste can be used again.

With a population of 13 billion, garbage is a big problem for China. Chinese cities create around 148 million tons of garbage every year.

Once, we used about 3 billion plastic shopping bags every day in China. The result was a great waste of resources and serious pollution. Last year, we did something about that. Now we use more cloth bags and shopping baskets when we shop.

In the coming years, China will build waste-to-energy plants in cities to clean up garbage, but there's a lot more that needs to be done.

1.How much trash does each person make every day?

A.1 kilo B.2 kilos C.3 kilos, D.4 kilos.

2.Which of The following places probably make the most garbage?

A.Factories. B.Homes. C.Schools. D.Supermarkets

3.Which of the following can be the missing part in Paragraph 3?

A.Did you ever think about why there is so much garbage?

B.Did you ever want to know how much trash we made?

C.Did you ever think about the problem of China's large population?

D.Did you ever want to know what happened to your garbage?

4.Who do you think the writer probably is?

A.An English scientist in nature. B.A Chinese reporter for a newspaper

C.American officer in the UN. D.A Chinese teacher in a middle school.

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