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Every person has his or her own special odour(气味). This odour largely depends on what type of food you eat and the health of your intestines(肠). The odour can even be used to tell if you are healthy.
Diabetes(糖尿病), for example, can make a person’s body smell like bad apples. Yellow fever smells like bad meat, and liver disease causes the breath to smell fishy.
These smells all have to do with diseased cells. A diseased cell gives out much more different chemicals than a healthy cell. As these chemicals change, so do the body’s smells, especially the sweat, blood, breath and urine.
The smells of diseases aren’t a new discovery. The real one is about using smells to find diseases.
For example, a woman in Scotland noticed her husband’s body odour was changing. It became more and more musky(麝香味的) as his Parkinson’s disease got worse. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh did a test. They asked her to tell whether a group of people had Parkinson’s disease. She thought 12 people had the disease. Eleven were confirmed at the time, and the rest got the disease eight months later!
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If some people can do such an amazing job of smelling out diseases, just think what dogs could do. A dog’s sense of smell can be 1,200 times sharper than a human’s. Perhaps they could help us find diseases as well.
根据短文内容,完成表格。(每空一词)
Smell the disease
What
A person’s body odour can be used to tell if the person is 1. .
Why
Different diseases can make a person’s body smell 2. .
Diseased cells give out more different 3. . When they change, the body’s smells change as 4. .
For example, a person with diabetes might smell like bad 5. while liver disease causes a person’s 6. to smell fishy.
An example
A woman noticed a(n) 7. in her husband’s body odour when his Parkinson’s disease got worse.
Scientists did a test with this woman. She 8. picked out those who had Parkinson’s disease or would get the disease.
A future possibility
Dogs could be used to find 9. since their sense of smell can be 1,200 times sharper than humans’. They may help us find out 10. we have a disease or not.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

不同的人身体发出的气味不同，这种气味在很大程度上取决于你所摄入食物的类型和你肠道的健康。根据这样的原理，科学家预测气味甚至可以用来判断人的健康状况。
1. healthy 2. different 3. chemicals 4. well
5. apples 6. breath 7. change 8. successfully
9. diseases 10. whether

【分析】
本题是根据短文内容完成表格的细节填空题，解题思路为：先通读短文把握主旨，再针对每个空格，定位短文中对应语句，结合语境、语法及固定搭配，提取或转换合适的单词填空，确保每空一词且符合原文语义。
【解析】
1. 定位到第一段最后一句“The odour can even be used to tell if you are healthy.”，可知此处填healthy；
2. 结合第二段不同疾病对应不同气味的例子，以及第三段逻辑，可知不同疾病会让身体气味不同，填different；
3. 定位到第三段“A diseased cell gives out much more different chemicals than a healthy cell.”，填chemicals；
4. 第三段“As these chemicals change, so do the body’s smells”，固定搭配as well，填well；
5. 定位到第二段“Diabetes, for example, can make a person’s body smell like bad apples.”，填apples；
6. 定位到第二段“liver disease causes the breath to smell fishy.”，填breath；
7. 定位到第五段“noticed her husband’s body odour was changing”，填change；
8. 根据第五段结果，她成功挑选出患病或潜在患病的人，填successfully；
9. 定位到最后一段“Perhaps they could help us find diseases as well.”，填diseases；
10. 最后一段“find out whether we have a disease or not”，固定搭配whether...or not，填whether。
【答案】
1. healthy 2. different 3. chemicals 4. well 5. apples 6. breath 7. change 8. successfully 9. diseases 10. whether
【知识点】
阅读理解细节填空；英语词汇运用
【点评】
本题为说明文细节填空题，考查学生快速阅读定位信息的能力，需结合原文语句、固定搭配完成填空，难度适中，适合中等水平学生作答。
【难度系数】
0.6