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大庆铁人中学高一年级上学期期末考试 英语试题 B. Air pollution can cause mental illness. C. There are no air pollution problems in Europe. D. Air pollution is a serious problem in China. 31. Which is Professor Jean Krutmann抯 opinion? A. Such inhalers mean much to people. B. We should take action to control air pollution. C. We can depend on inhalers to solve air pollution problems. D. We抎 better produce more medicines to treat lung diseases. D Some people surveyed tasted the sweet, salty, and crunchy together with other tastes of food as they listen to different noises. It shows that louder noises reduced the reported sweetness or saltiness of food while increasing the measure of crunchiness(松脆). It may go some way to explain why airline food is widely complained about by both the workers and passengers. Andy Woods, a researcher, said, “It’s a general opinion that plane foods aren’t fantastic, but I’m sure airlines do their best, so we wondered if there were other reasons. One thought was that perhaps the background noise may have an effect. NASA gives their space explorers very strong-tasting foods, because for some reason, they can抰 taste food that strongly梐gain, it may have something to do with the background noise.?In a study, 48 people were fed sweet foods or salty ones, while listening to nothing or noise through earphones. Meanwhile they rated(划分等级) the foods. In noisier settings, foods were rated less salty or sweet than they were when it was silent, but were rated crunchier. “The evidence shows that if the background noise is loud, your attention might be drawn to that, away from the food.” Dr. Woods said. “We are still at an early stage of progressing and this is a rather small study to really draw definitive(最完整可靠的) conclusions from,” Dr Woods said, “but they suggest that restaurants could well adapt their choice of food for a given environment.?Also in the group抯 findings there is the suggestion that the overall satisfaction with the food is also rela