Question

    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 rely on what we smell. “When you lose your sense of smell, your whole sense of food flavors 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 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.”

1.What is true about Pradhan?

A. She has had no sense of smell since she was born.

B. She suffers from loss of appetite through lack of smell sense.

C. She has something wrong with her stomach.

D. She is looking for a roommate to share the cost.

2.What can we infer from what Beverly Cowart said?

A. People with a smell problem have no food tastes.

B. Different food tastes the same for people of smell loss.

C. Lack of smell sense makes eating a dull experience.

D. People feel hungry easily for lack of smell sense.

3.When eating out, Pradhan ________.

A. feels left out sometimes B. often has a good appetite

C. pretends to have good smell sense D. has a sense of being full quickly

4.What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. Pradhan may be right. B. Pradhan may be foolish.

C. Pradhan may be crazy. D. Pradhan may be forgettable.

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.A

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了21岁的女大学生Pradhan因缺乏嗅觉而食欲不振，她还认为记忆力也因此下降了。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段中的“That’s because she isn’t able to smell.”及“But there came a point where she lost interest in food.”可知，她因缺乏嗅觉而食欲不振，故B项正确。

2.推理判断题。根据第二段中的“When you lose your sense of smell, your whole sense of food flavors changed and reduced”可知，当你失去嗅觉时，你对食物全部的味觉都变了，降低了，也就是说缺乏嗅觉使吃东西变得枯燥无味，故C项正确。

3.推理判断题。根据第三段中的“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,”可知，当Pradhan出去吃饭时，不会参与到対食物的评论中，由此可知，她有时会感觉被遗忘，故A项正确。

4.句意理解题。上文说Pradhan认为缺乏味觉可能会影响他的记忆力，根据画线部分后的“When smell signals come in, you feel about them first. And then you think about it and then the memory is laid down.”可知，当气味信号进来时，你首先感觉到它们，然后你想了想，记忆就沉淀下来，由此可知画线部分说的是“Pradhan是对的”，故A项正确。