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1、2015年新版职称英语教材新增文章系列之综合类 补全短文 第十二篇Men Smell of Cheese and Women of OnionsLittle girls may be made of sugar and all things nice, but their armpits smell of onions. _1_ Thats the conclusion of research in Switzerland that involved taking armpit sweat samples from 24 men and 25 women after he had spent
2、time in a sauna or ridden an exercise bike for 15 minute._2_ “Men smell of cheese, and women of grapefruit or onion,” says Christian Starkenmann of Firmenich, a company in Geneva that researches flavours and perfumes for food and cosmetics companies.The team found that the womens armpit sweat constr
3、ained relatively high levels of an odourless sulphur-containning compound 5 milligrams per milliliter of sweat versus 0.5 milligrams in men. When the researchers mixed this compound in the lab with bacteria commonly found in the armpit, the bugs turned it into a thiol- a previously discovered odour
4、from armpits that is akin to onion.“The more sulphur precursor we added, the more intense was the malodour,” says Starkenmann, whose teams results appear in Chemical Senses. _3_The men, meanwhile, had relatively high levels of an odourless fatty acid which turned into a cheesy odour when exposed to
5、the same types of bacteria. The balance of oniony to cheesy precursors in womens sweat made it smell worse than mens as rated by independent smell assessors._4_ “We could make inhibitors that neutralise the precursors, or block the bacterial enzymes that do the conversion,” says Starkenmann.Some res
6、earchers are sceptical that gender is the main deciding factor, arguing that the patterns found in Swiss volunteers might not apply to other populations with different diets and genetic background. _5_【词汇】armpit n. 腋（部）malodour n.难闻的气味，恶臭grapefruit n.葡萄柚neutralize v.中和，抵消sulphur n.硫enzyme n.酶thiol n
7、.硫醇【注释】1. smell of onions：.闻起来像洋葱2. . is akin to onion：.近似于洋葱练习： A Bacterial enzymes turn the otherwise odourless precursor into the malodour.B And while free of slug or snail odours, mens armpits pack a powerful cheesy whiff.C Most cases of skin odor is associated with break down of the compounds f
8、ound in sweat by bacteria that live on the skin.D Next, the team hope to develop new ingredients for deodorants that fight the smells.E The researchers found marked differences in the sweat from men and women.F “Other factors include what you eat. what you wash with, what you wear and what genes you
9、 inherit,” says Tim Jacob of Cardiff University in the UK.【答案与题解】1. B 前一句讲女孩的腋下气味，后一句解释说这是一项研究成果，所以为了完整性，此处应该讲男性腋下的气味是怎么样的。所以，正确答案是选项 B。2. E 上一段结尾处介绍了这个研究的基本情况，本段又具体讲了一下试验结果，所以此处句首所填的句子应该起到承上启下的作用，并且是本段的中心句。只有选项 E概括了本段的主要内容。3. A 前一句提到加入越多的硫前体，恶臭味就越浓烈，由此可以推测出后面应该讲到恶臭味出现的原因。所以，正确答案是选项 A。4. D 根据本段第二句话可
10、以判断出，这句应该讲研究团队接下来要怎么做。所以，正确答案是选项 D。5. F 本段第一句话在讲其他研究者怀疑有其他因素的影响，可以推测本句会进一步阐释其他因素。所以，正确答案是选项 F。2015年新版职称英语教材新增文章系列之综合类 补全短文 第九篇Style, Not FashionStyle goes way beyond fashion: It is the distinctive way we put ourselves together. It is a unique blend of spirit and substance-personal identity imposed o
11、n and created through, the world of things. _1_ It is what people really want when they aspire to be fashionable (if they arent just adorning themselves in status symbols).Through clothes, we reinvent ourselves every time we get dressed. Our wardrobe is our visual vocabulary. Style is our distinctiv
12、e pattern of speech, our individual poetry.Fashion is the least of it. Style is, for starters, one part identity: self-awareness and self-knowledge. _2_And style requires security-feeling at home in your body, physically and mentally. Of course, like all knowledge, self-knowledge must be updated as
13、you grow evolve; style takes ongoing self-assessment.Style is also one part personality: spirit: verve, attitude, wit, inventiveness. It demands the desire and confidence to express whatever mood one wishes. Such variability is not only necessary but a reflection of a persons unique complexity as a
14、human being. _3_ In order to work, style must reflect the real self, the character and personality of the individual; anything less appears to be a costume.Lastly, style is one part fashion. Its possible to have lots of clothes and not an ounce of style. But its also possible to have very few clothe
15、s and lots of style. Yes, fashion is the means through which we express style, but it takes fewer clothes to be stylish than you might imagine.Whatever else it is, style is optimism made visible. Style presumes that you are a person of interest: that the world is a place of interest that life is wor
16、th making the effort for. It also shows that you are morally responsible. It shows that you dont buy things at the whim of the marketplace or the urging of marketers. _4_ Style exposes peoples ambivalence over good looks. It always demonstrates that appearances do count. Deep down we suspect this, since we ourselves make judgments about others from how they look.No one should be penalized for n
