题目
21.填空题(25分)A rat or pigeon might not be the obvious choice to tend to someone who is sick, but these creatures have someunderline(输入答案) skills that could help the treatment of human diseases. Pigeons are often seen as dirty birds and an urbanunderline(输入答案), but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans. Despite having a brain no bigger than the underline(输入答案) of your index finger, pigeons have a very impressive underline(输入答案)memory. Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images. Rats are often underline(输入答案) with spreading disease rather thanunderline(输入答案) it, but this long-tailed animal is highlyunderline(输入答案). Inside a rat's nose are up to 1,000 different types of olfactory receptors (嗅觉感受器), whereas humans only have 100 to 200 types. This gives rats the ability to detectunderline(输入答案) smells. As a result, some rats are being put to work to detect TB (肺结核). When the rats detect the smell, they stop and rub their legs to underline(输入答案)a sample is infected. Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to underline(输入答案), but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes. This rat detection method doesn't rely on specialist equipment. It is also more accurate - the rats are able to find more TB infections and, therefore, save more lives. A) associated B) examine C) indicate D) nuisance E) peak F) preventing G) prohibiting H) sensitive I) slight J) specify K) superior L) suspicious M) tip N) treated O) visual
21.填空题(25分)
A rat or pigeon might not be the obvious choice to tend to someone who is sick, but these creatures have some
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题目解答
答案
21. 根据句意,第一空需要一个形容词修饰“skills”,表示“高级技能”,应填“superior”。
22. 第二空需填“nuisance”,与“dirty birds”并列,表示“城市害虫”。
23. 第三空需填“tip”,构成“no bigger than the tip of your index finger”。
24. 第四空需填“visual”,修饰“memory”,表示“视觉记忆”。
25. 第五空需填“associated”,构成“be associated with”。
26. 第六空需填“preventing”,与“spreading”对应。
27. 第七空需填“sensitive”,表示“高度敏感”。
28. 第八空需填“slight”,修饰“smells”,表示“轻微气味”。
29. 第九空需填“indicate”,表示“表明样本感染”。
30. 第十空需填“examine”,表示“检验样本”。
最终答案:
21. superior
22. nuisance
23. tip
24. visual
25. associated
26. preventing
27. sensitive
28. slight
29. indicate
30. examine