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1、镇成立由镇委书记孙广东任组长，镇委副书记、镇长任副组长，镇直相关部门主要领导为成员的意识形态工作领导小组，统筹协调全镇意识形态工作话题语篇专攻练26健康饮食(二)(建议用时35分钟). 阅读理解AHeres an experiment: take a bite of whatever food you have nearby and listen to some music, something with high notes. Now, take another bite, but listen to something with low notes. Notice anything? Re
2、searchers at the University of Oxford have been looking for a link between sound and taste. Theyve found that higher-pitched musicthink flutesenhances the flavor of sweet or sour foods. Lower-pitched sounds, like tubas, increase the bitter flavors. Charles Spence is leading that study into what he a
3、nd his team call“multi-sensory food perception”. Spence tells how taste is the sense that unifies all of the others. “Flavor is probably one of the most multi-sensory of our experiences. . . because it does involve taste and more smell than we realize, ”Spence says. “But all of the senses come toget
4、her to give us that one unified experience of flavor. ”“Texture is one of the more clear ways sound plays into taste, ”Spence says. “Think of the crackling of chips or the fizzy sounds of a carbonated drinksound plays a major role in our experience of those textures. ”“But the other place where soun
5、d affects taste, ”Spence says, “is in the environment; imagine listening to the sounds of the sea while youre eating fish at a seaside restaurant. ”Spences team is currently working on what he calls“synesthetic sounds”. By asking tasters to match flavors with sounds, they discovered the connection b
6、etween high-pitched sounds and sweets and low-pitched sounds and bitter tastes. “You can then start creating experiences where you play particular kinds of music or sounds cape to diners or to drinkers while theyre tasting, ”he says. “Were able to show that we can change the experience in the mouth
7、by about 5 or 10 percent. ”Another one of the projects Spences team has worked on was something called“sonic seasoning”. Theyd take the results of taste tests involving a myriad of flavors to composers and sound designers, whod then craft sound experiences to match those taste experiences. 【文章大意】想提高
8、你对食物的感觉吗? 那么去听听音乐吧。高音调的音乐, 像长笛, 能增强甜味或酸味食物的味道。较低音调的音乐, 像大号, 能增强苦味食物的味道。1. The aim of the experiment is to find_. A. how eating speed influences tasteB. how musical sound affects your tasteC. what is the best music for a dining roomD. what makes high notes and low notes【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第一段的内容和第二段的looki
9、ng for a link between sound and taste可知, 这个研究的目的是想搞清楚音乐和味觉之间的关系。2. To get better taste, you can_. A. take some food without smellB. eat your sandwich at seasideC. eat your crisp chips loudlyD. drink a carbonated drink quietly【解析】选C。推理判断题。结合第五段的Think of the crackling of chips or the fizzy sounds of a
10、 carbonated drinksound plays a major role in our experience of those textures. 可知发脆的薯片发出的声音可以提高你对食物的口感。3. What most likely increases your flavor of sweet? A. The violin. B. The tubas. C. The guitar. D. The flute. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。从第二段的Theyve found that higher-pitched musicthink flutesenhances the flavor
11、 of sweet or sour foods. Lower-pitched sounds, like tubas, increase the bitter flavors. 可知, 高音贝的音乐可以提高食物的甜味感或酸味感, 低音贝音乐可以提高苦味感, 因此笛子的声音可以提高甜味感。4. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Music destroys your taste for food sharply. B. Music can improve the flavor of your food. C. Music will replace t
12、he salt in your food. D. Music affects your satisfaction in food. 【解析】选B。主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了音乐可以影响我们对食物的感觉, 比如高音贝的音乐可以增强甜味感或酸味感, 而低音贝的音乐则增强苦味感。B Why do many of us find complete pleasure in eating raw sea creatures but arent so inclined to chow down on uncooked birds, cows or pigs? “A big part of it is gra
13、vityor the effective lack of it in the ocean, ”says biophysicist Ole Mouritsen. “Fish are so soft. You can stick your finger through their muscles. Try doing that with a chicken or cow. Fish muscle is very different from that in land animals. Why? Because fish can afford to be lazier than land anima
14、ls. Fish essentially float all the time. Fish dont have to support their body weight, so their muscle fibers are shorter and less tough than those in land animals. ”The same goes for the connective tissue holding the muscle fibers together: Its delicate and weak. By contrast, “Land animalslike ourse
15、lvesare always working to keep themselvesupright and keep their shape, ”Mouritsen says, “so our muscle fibers are thicker, tougher and firmer. ”In general, the more a muscle works, the tougher it gets. This idea explains why the belly of the tuna is very soft: The belly of the fish is the laziest mu
16、scle of them all. In contrast, those muscles that are more active in a tuna; the ones in its fins and tails, are a bit more chewier than other muscles. The muscle properties of fish also explain the rainbow of colors you see. “Fish that are constantly on the movelike a tunahave muscles that are always working and burning carbohydrates aerobically, ”Mouritsen
