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【題目】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 plane. 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(氣壓) reduces(降低) one third of the sensibility(感覺) of our taste buds ( 味 蕾 ). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad fact, 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 feeling 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(氣壓), 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】From Paragraph3, we know that________.

A. No one can find out the reasons

B. people can taste well anywhere and anytime

C. high altitude is part of the reason of plane food’s bad taste

D. our noses are not dry or wet on the plane all the time

【3】Why do scientists feel it hard to make food on the plane taste good?

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

B. The volunteers don’t understand them at all.

C. They can’t find enough volunteers to try it.

D. They can’t solve the special environment problem.

【4】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.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】 B

【2】 C

【3】 D

【4】 A

【解析】

本文主要介紹了很多人對飛機(jī)上提供的食物不滿。而根據(jù)科學(xué)研究，食物味道不好的重要原因是高海拔太高，我們不能像在地上一樣品嘗東西，氣壓等因素的變化使我們的味覺和嗅覺都減弱了。針對這個(gè)問題，科學(xué)家們還在努力研究，但并不像他們想象的那么容易。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題干句意：在第2段中，這個(gè)問題的意思是_______。其中A. passengers stay long in the plane乘客在飛機(jī)上停留的時(shí)間很長；B. food on the plane tastes bad飛機(jī)上的食物很難吃；C. passengers have no food to eat.乘客沒有食物可吃；D. food on the plane is expensive飛機(jī)上的食物很貴。結(jié)合答案和原文信息，根據(jù)上文But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?To solve this problem 但是他們對食物的味道感覺不好是很正常的。你同意嗎?為了解決這個(gè)問題....可知，this problem是指food on the plane tastes bad，故正確答案為B .

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題干句意：從第三段，我們知道_______。其中A. No one can find out the reasons沒有人能找出原因；B. people can taste well anywhere and anytime人們隨時(shí)隨地都能品嘗到美味；C.high altitude is part of the reason of plane food’s bad taste高海拔是飛機(jī)餐難吃的部分原因；D. our noses are not dry or wet on the plane all the time我們的鼻子在飛機(jī)上并不總是干濕的。結(jié)合答案和原文信息，根據(jù)第三段As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces one third of the sensibility of our taste buds.當(dāng)飛機(jī)上升時(shí)，氣壓的變化會降低我們味蕾三分之一的敏感度 。C項(xiàng)符合題意，故正確答案為C .

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題干句意：為什么科學(xué)家覺得在飛機(jī)上很難做出好吃的食物？

其中A. The volunteers don’t know about food taste.志愿者不知道食物的味道；B. The volunteers don’t understand them at all.志愿者們一點(diǎn)也不理解他們；C. They can’t find enough volunteers to try it.他們找不到足夠的志愿者來嘗試；D. They can’t solve the special environment problem.他們不能解決特殊的環(huán)境問題。結(jié)合答案和原文信息，根據(jù)最后一段Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully因?yàn)樗麄儾荒艹晒Φ貞?yīng)對特殊的環(huán)境，可知D項(xiàng)符合題意，故正確答案為D .

【4】主旨大意題。題干句意：這篇文章最好的題目是什么？其中A. Taste of Airplane Food. 飛機(jī)餐的味道。B. Airplane Travel.飛機(jī)旅行。C. Scientific Research on Noses.鼻子的科學(xué)研究。D. The Change in Air Pressure.氣壓的變化。結(jié)合答案和原文信息，可知A項(xiàng)符合題意，故正確答案為A .

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