雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Hunting Perfume in Madagascar

雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Hunting Perfume in Madagascar

A

Ever since the unguentari (古罗马时期玻璃器皿) plied their trade in ancient Rome, perfumers have to keep abreast of changing fashions. These days they have several thousand ingredients to choose from when creating new scents, but there is always demand for new combinations. The bigger the 'palette' of smells, the better the perfumer's chance of creating something fresh and appealing. Even with everyday products such as shampoo and soap, kitchen cleaners and washing powders, consumers are becoming increasingly fussy. And many of today's fragrances have to survive tougher treatment than ever before, resisting the destructive power of bleach or a high temperature wash cycle. Chemists can create new smells from synthetic molecules, and a growing number of the odours on the perfumer's palette are artificial. But nature has been in the business far longer.

B

The island of Madagascar (马达加斯加) is an evolutionary hot spot; 85% of its plants are unique, making it an ideal source for novel fragrances. Last October, Quest International, a company that develops fragrances for everything from the most delicate perfumes to cleaning products, sent an expedition to Madagascar in pursuit of some of nature's most novel fragrances. With some simple technology, borrowed from the pollution monitoring industry, and a fair amount of ingenuity, the perfume hunters bagged 20 promising new aromas in the Madagascan rainforest. Each day the team set out from their "hotel"-a wooden hut lit by kerosene lamps, and trailed up and down paths and animal tracks, exploring the thick vegetation up to 10 meters on either side of the trail. Some smells came from obvious places, often big showy flowers within easy reach. Others were harder to pin down. “Often it was the very small flowers that were much more interesting,” says Clery. After the luxuriance (肥沃) of the rainforest, the little-known island of Nosy Hara was a stark, dry place-geologically and biologically very different from the mainland. “Apart from two beaches, the rest of the island is impenetrable, except by hacking through the bush," says Clery. One of the biggest prizes here was a sweet-smelling sap weeping from the gnarled branches of some ancient shrubby trees in the parched interior. So far no one has been able to identify the plant.

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雅思阅读真题题目：

Question 14-18

The reading Passage has five paragraphs A-E

Which paragraph contains the following details?

Write the correct letter A-E in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

14. One currently preferred spot to pick up plants for novel finding

15. A new task seems to be promising yet producing limited finding in fragrance source

16. The demanding conditions for fragrance to endure.

17. A substitute for substance no longer available to the perfume manufacture

18. Description of an outdoor expedition on land chasing new fragrances.

Question 19-23

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2?

In boxes 19-23 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement is true

FALSE if the statement is false

NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage

19. Manufacturers can choose to use synthetic odours for the perfume nowadays.

20. Madagascar is chosen to be a place for hunting plants which are rare in other parts of the world.

21. Capturing the smell is one of the most important things for creating new aromas.

22. The technique the hunters used to trap fragrance molecules is totally out of their ingenuity.

23. Most customers prefer the perfume made of substance extracted from the musk glands of animals.

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