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15.Nisha Pradhan is worried.The recent college graduate just turns 21 and plans to live on her own.But she's afraid she won't be able to stay safe.That's because she isn't able to smell.Back home,her family do her smelling for her.She's moved in with them for now,but she's looking for a place of her own."Now that I'm searching for ways or place to live as an independent person,I find that the sense of smell is important to how we live our lives,"Pradhan says.
She says when she was a child she liked to eat and ate a lot.But there came a point where she lost interest in food.
"One of the first things that people notice whenever they have a smell problem is that food doesn't taste right any-more,"says Beverly Cowart,a researcher.That's because eating and smell go hand in hand.How food tastes often relies on what we smell."When you lose your sense of smell,your whole sense of food flavor s changed and reduced,"Cowart says,"You can still taste the basic tastes.What you're missing are the small distinctions."
"When I go out to eat I have often found that that food is very tasteless to me.I never feel full,"she says."I think a lot of us today like to pretend to be food lovers and we all like to talk about‘Oh,I think this could use a little bit more flavor,'or‘I think this has a hint of meat,'I can't really participate in those conversations,"she says.
Pradam thinks her smell loss also may have affected her memory.Pradhan may be on to something,according to biologist Paul Moore."When smell signals come in,you feel about them first.And then you think about it and then the memory is laid down.So without the feel part,the thinking about its part doesn't come.And that means no new smell memory gets created."
12.What problem does Pradhan meet with at present?A
A.That she has no sense of smell.
B.That she doesn't have her own house.
C.That she lacks life skills to live alone.
D.That she is too nervous to live alone.
13.What can we infer from what Beverly Cowart said?B
A.People with a smell problem have no food tastes.
B.Lack of smell sense makes eating a dull experience.
C.Different food tastes the same for people of smell loss.
D.People feel hungry easily for lack of smell sense.
14.When eating out,PradhanD.
A.has a sense of being full quickly
B.often has a good appetite
C.pretends to have good smell sense
D.feels left out sometimes
15.What does the underlined sentence mean?C
A.Pradhan may be crazy.
B.Pradhan may be foolish.
C.Pradhan may be right.
D.Pradhan may be forgettable.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了Pradhan没有嗅觉为她的生活带来许多问题,可知任何感官都十分重要.
解答 12.A.细节理解题.根据第一段But she's afraid she won't be able to stay safe.That's because she isn't able to smell可知她担心的问题是他没有嗅觉;故选A
13.B.细节理解题.根据第五段When I go out to eat I have often found that that food is very tasteless to me.I never feel full,"she says可知缺乏嗅觉会使人感到枯燥乏味;故选B.
14.D.细节理解题.根据第五段Oh,I think this could use a little bit more flavor,'or‘I think this has a hint of meat,'I can't really participate in those conversations,"she says可知外出就餐时,Pradhan感觉不合群,没有共同语言;故选D
15.C.句意理解题.根据最后一段When smell signals come in,you feel about them first.And then you think about it and then the memory is laid down.So without the feel part,the thinking about its part doesn't come.And that means no new smell memory gets created可知根据专家的说法,Pradhan的想法也许是对的;故选C.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.

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