Questions 1-4

　　Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? Please write

　　TRUE if the statement agrees with the writer

　　FALSE if the statement does not agree with the writer

　　NOT GIVEN if there is no information about this in the passage

　　1.The result of the study at UCL agrees with Turin's theory.

　　2.The study at UCL could conclusively prove what Luca Turin has hypothesized.

　　3.Turin left his post at UCL and started his own business because his theory was ignored.

　　4.The molecules of alcohols and those of thiols look alike.

　　Questions 5-9

　　Complete the sentences below with words from the passage.Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

　　5.The hypothesis that we smell by sensing the molecular vibration was made by ______.

　　6.Turin's company is based in ______.

　　7.Most scientists believed that our nose works in the same way as our ______.

　　8.Different isotopes can smell different when ______ weigh differently.

　　9.According to Audrew Horsfield, it is still to be proved that ______ could really occur in human nose.

　　Question 10-12

　　Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

　　10.What's the name of the researcher who collaborated with Stoneham?

　　11.What is the next step of the UCL team's study?

　　12.What is the theoretical basis in designing odorants in Turin's company?

　　Answer Keys and Explanations

　　1.T 見(jiàn)第一段。“give sth the thumbs up”為“接受”的意思。

　　2.F 見(jiàn)第三段。“That's still some way from proving that the theory, proposed in the mid-1990s by biophysicist Luca Turin, is correct.”意即“現(xiàn)在尚無(wú)法證實(shí)生物物理學(xué)家Luca在九十年代中期提出的理論是否正確。”

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　　4.T 見(jiàn)第六段“Molecules that look almost identical can smell very different — such as alcohols, which smell like spirits, and thiols, which smell like rotten eggs.”“identical”一詞是“完全相同”的意思。這句話是說(shuō)alcohols和thiols的分子結(jié)構(gòu)看起來(lái)一樣，但是它們的味道卻相去甚遠(yuǎn)。

　　5.Luca Turin 文章第二，三和七段均可看出Luca的理論即人類的鼻子是通過(guò)感覺(jué)氣味分子的震動(dòng)來(lái)分辨氣味的。

　　6.Virginia 見(jiàn)第四段。

　　7.tongue 見(jiàn)第五段“This molecular'lock and key' process is thought to lie behind a wide range of the body's detection systems: it is how some parts of the immune system recognise invaders, for example, and how the tongue recognizes some tastes.”

　　8.the atoms 見(jiàn)第八段“This would explain why isotopes can smell different: their vibration frequencies are changed if the atoms are heavier.”

　　9.vibration-assisted electron tunneling 見(jiàn)第九段“"The question is whether this is possible in the nose," says Stoneham's colleague, Andrew Horsfield.”句中的代詞“this”指句首的“vibration-assisted electron tunneling”。

　　10.Andrew Horsfield 見(jiàn)第九段結(jié)尾。

　　11.proper experimental verification 見(jiàn)第十三段。

　　12.their computed vibrations 見(jiàn)第十四段。

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