高考英语真题 阅读理解D，翻译+长难句成分结构解析.docxVIP

2020高考英语真题-阅读理解D，翻译+长难句成分结构解析 The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. 人与植物的关系是久被研究的科学课题。 Recent studies have found positive effects. 近期研究取得了积极的成果。 A study conducted in Youngstown，Ohio，for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. 例如，俄亥俄州杨斯敦开展的一项研究表明城市植被越茂盛的地方犯罪率越低. In another，employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants. 另一项研究表明，当工作环境里有室内植物装点时，员工的生产率会提高15%。 The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology（MIT）have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse，even unusual functions. 麻省理工学院的工程师们更胜一筹，为使植物发挥更广泛更与众不同的功能，改变了它们的现有成分。 2020高考英语真题阅读理解长难句成分解析 These include plants that have sensors printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect harmful chemicals in groundwater. 被改变的植物有两类，第一类，在其叶子上印制传感器以显示它们何时缺水，第二类植物，是能检测出地下水中是否存在有害化学物质的植物。 2020高考英语真题阅读理解长难句成分解析 We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day,＂explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. 麻省理工的化学工程教授 Michael Strano解释：“我们考虑如何改造植物以代替我们日常所用物件的功能。” One of his latest projects has been to make plants grow（发光）in experiments using some common vegetables. 他最新的工程是使寻常的蔬菜在实验中发光。 Strano’s team found that they could create a faint light for three-and-a-half hours. Strano的团队发现这些植物能持续三个半小时发微光。 The light，about one-thousandth of the amount needed to read by，is just a start. 光，大学只有千分之一能被识别，只是一个开始。 The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn tree into self-powered street lamps. Strano说，将来这个技术能用于点亮房间，以至于将树变成自发光的灯。 In the future，the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant’s lifetime. 将来，团队希望能升级技术，实现在植物叶子上喷射一次，就能终身可用的技术。 The engineers are also trying to develop an on a