新東方：英語四級考試閱讀30天學習筆記

　　注：1.Mounted on 安裝在……之上

　　2.transform 轉(zhuǎn)變 = trans 變化 + form 形式

　　3.spot-spray 點噴

　　The bad news is that Paley's company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works.

　　注：1.第一句為現(xiàn)象，后面跟著原因和解釋

　　2.with 因為，因果關(guān)系

　　3.renew 恢復

　　4.工業(yè)產(chǎn)品：product;農(nóng)業(yè)產(chǎn)品：produce

　　5.refinement 提煉、精煉

　　"This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States," says George Qerther of Texas A& M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired form the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

　　36. Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are _________.

　　A) sprayed with pesticides

　　B) in poor physical condition

　　C) facing an infrared scanner

　　D) exposed to excessive sun rays

　　注：第一段首句的同義改寫when句：受到病蟲害侵擾的時候

　　Even plants can run a fever, especially when they're under attack by insects or disease. But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3, 000 feet away - straight up. A decade ago, adapting the infrared (紅外線) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide (殺蟲劑) spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don't have pest (害蟲) problems.

　　37. In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to _________.

　　A) locate the problem area

　　B) draw a color-coded map

　　C) measure the size of the affected area

　　D) estimate the damage to the crops

　　注：B選項在第二段出現(xiàn)，C選項測量區(qū)域不對

　　Even plants can run a fever, especially when they're under attack by insects or disease. But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3, 000 feet away - straight up. A decade ago, adapting the infrared (紅外線) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide (殺蟲劑) spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don't have pest (害蟲) problems.

　　38. Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by _________.

　　A) transforming poisoned rain

　　B) consulting infrared scanning experts

　　C) resorting to spot-spraying

　　D) detecting crop problems at an early date