2024届上海市部分区高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语试题分类汇编：六选四

上海市部分区 2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语试题分类汇编 六选四 2024届上海市闵行区高三上学期学业质量调研一模英语试卷 Section C Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. Odours are also essential signals in social bonding. B. Besides, odours are granted different cultural values. C. Human’s perception of smell facilitates the spread of human culture. D. Our noses can perceive odours present in extremelysmall quantities. E. Many respondents noted many of their olfactorylikes and dislikes were based onemotional links. F. Some respondents’ preference for a particular odour was influenced by emotional associations. The Meaning and Power of Smell A survey revealed that smell can cause strong emotional responses. A smell connected with a good experience can please us, while an odour (气味) bonded with a bad memory may disgust (使恶心) us. 67 Such associations can be so powerful that odoursgenerally labelled unpleasant become agreeable, and those generally considered sweet become disagreeable for particular individuals. 68 One respondent believes there is no true emotional bonding without smelling a loved one. Infants recognize their mothers’ odours soon after birth. Individuals were able to distinguish by the smell alone clothing worn by their partners from similar clothing worn by other people. Despite its importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is probably the most undervalued sense in many cultures. While our olfactory (嗅觉的) powers are nothing like as fine as those possessed by certain animals, they are remarkably sensitive. 696 Odours, unlike colours, can’t be named in many languages because the specific vocabulary simply doesn’t exist. “It smells like . . . , ” we have to say when describing an odour, struggling to express our olfactory experience. Nor can odours be recorded: there is no effective way to capture or store