专题 17 同味相投--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (17) Friends often have similar body odours 朋友之间的体味似乎是相似的 主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：人际交往 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） DOGS GREET other dogs nose-first, as it were—sniffing each other from head to tail. People are not quite so open about the process of sniffing each other out. But the size of the perfume industry suggests scent (气味) is important in human relations, too. There is also evidence that human beings can infer kinship (亲属关系),  emotional states and even detect disease via the sense of smell. Now, Inbal Ravreby, Kobi Snitz and Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel, have gone a step further. They think they have shown, admittedly in a fairly small sample of individuals, that friends actually smell alike. They have also shown that this is probably the case from the get-go, with people picking friends at least partly on the basis of body odour(气味), rather than the body odours of people who become friends subsequently