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Noses have their advantages. They’re cute, they’re versatile, and they’re small enough to be carried around. Which may be why th
Noses have their advantages. They’re cute, they’re versatile, and they’re small enough to be carried around. Which may be why th
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2013-03-11
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问题
Noses have their advantages. They’re cute, they’re versatile, and they’re small enough to be carried around. Which may be why the artificial odor detectors that engineers have been building since the 1950’s to try to mimic the olfactory(嗅觉的) abilities of our built-in sensors have taken so long to find their way to the market--and then, in most cases, have flopped(失败).
But things are finally looking up for the electronic nose. Thanks to advances in chip technology and pattern-recognition techniques, increasingly tiny sniffers (嗅探器) are beginning to live up to their moniker (模仿者)- Today e-noses are being tested for everything from disease detection to disaster prevention, and lower-prices models are starting to come to the market including an $ 8,000 device called the Cyranose 320 being introduced this week by Cyrano Sciences of Pasadena, Calif.
Like our proboscises(长鼻子), e-noses are only as good as their sensors, and all of them operate on oiliness(油质)--rather than to the molecule itself. Working together, the receptors can generate unique principles remarkably similar to those of a real nose. Humans detect odors with up to 650 types of receptors found on cells high up in the nasal passages, somewhere between our eyebrows. How the nose works is still something of a mystery, but it is believed that each receptor responds to a subtle characteristic of a molecule that carries odor--its peculiar shape, say, or degree of "smell prints" of a wide variety of odors, which are then parceled off to the brain and stored.
In e-noses, chemical sensors replace the body’s cellular receptors, and microprocessors substitute for the brain. "What limits these devices is how well the sensors are doing," explains Nathan Lewis, the Caltech chemist who helped invent the sensor technology licensed by Cyrano and who has since continued his research independently. He compares the power of e-noses to the resolution of computer monitors: "Are you seeing the world in eight shades of gray or in 16 million colors?"
It can be learned from the passage that ______.
选项
A、the artificial noses are even better than the human noses
B、it has not taken long for the artificial noses to be introduced to the market
C、the attempts of the artificial noses to imitate the olfactory abilities have been largely unsuccessful
D、the artificial noses have their own advantages over the human noses
答案
C
解析
细节理解题。该题问从文章中可得知什么,实际上浏览选择项,可以断定问的是关于“人工鼻子”即“the artificial odor detectors”(人造气味探测器)的问题。此题涉及到第一段第三句话中的非限制性定语从句的理解“which may be why…have flopped”(这大概是工程人员自20世纪五十年代起一直制造的人工气味探测器,力图模仿我们内嵌的感应器的嗅觉功能和花费了如此长的时间才打入市场——并且在多数情况下失败了的原因。)因此选项C是正确答案。
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