科幻照进现实：火星上种蔬菜或将成真

中的“to make it easier”，我们可知此处的代词“it”指的是“finding connection（找到共鸣）”，因此艺术应该是作为找到共鸣的一种“促进因素”，A选项符合材料意思。

3. D。

解析：例证题。

根据材料第三段第一句中的“making art or even viewing the work of other people
reduces levels of stress and also increases levels of the feel-good hormones”，我们可知这是例子所要证明的信息，即“创作艺术品，甚至观看他人的作品能够减轻压力，提高让人感觉良好的激素水平”，D选项符合材料意思。

4. D。

解析：细节理解题。

根据题干关键词“planting an herb garden”定位至材料尾段第二句，再结合下一句中的“Make something”“into a tangi-ble artifact”“express those thoughts and feelings”，我们可知做类似耕种植物园的事情的原因在于，通过做一些有形的东西来传递自己的想法和感受，D选项符合材料意思。

The scene in the Hollywood film The Martian, where the fictional botanist Mark Watney is trapped on the deserted planet and grows potatoes to survive, may come true, according to new research.
Among the many difficulties, a key issue to sending a crew of astronauts to Mars is food. Weight, volume and longevity limit the kinds — and how much of it —can be brought on the long journey. That is a challenge aerospace engineering undergraduate Emmanuel Mendoza has taken on.
Mendoza is currently running a study at Texas A&M University, where he’s mixing simulated Martian soil and poop (排泄物) from insects to find just the right recipe for growing plants on Mars. The seed of this idea was from Ridley Scott’s 2015 film The Martian. Mendo-za finally chose to grow English peas for the experiment.
Conditions on Mars are not ideal for plants from Earth. It tends to be rocky and rough, and lacks the right organic matter. In order to supplement his simulated soil with those missing nutrients and organic matter, Men-doza turned to the larvae (幼虫) of black soldier flies, which excrete a waste known as frass. “They can break down almost any biomatter and they can turn it into real-ly useful byproducts,” Mendoza said. “And then you can use black soldier fly larvae frass as a nutrient substitute for soil.”
In this experiment, Mendoza mixed different pro-portions of simulated Martian soil and frass to see what best supported growing English pea plants. Now, he said he’s seeing growth across all his plants — even the ones growing in 100% simulated Martian soil.
Mendoza has presented his experiments and find-ings at the Entomological Society of America. But he’s not done with the project yet. Pea plants take about 10-12 weeks to fully mature, and Mendoza’s are almost there. And soon, he’ll harvest the pea pods. Once he’s done collecting all that data, he said he will write up the results in a paper.
（材料出自npr网站，有删改）
1. According to the passage, the challenge to Emmanuel Mendoza is ______.
A. the limitation of food
B. the amount of food
科幻照进现实：火星上种蔬菜或将成真
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A survey finds the gender gap in “home cooking” has widened, with women cooking more meals than men in nearly every country worldwide.
Women cooked just under nine meals per week, on average, in 2022. Men cooked about four per week. These are the results of an annual survey by Gallup and
Cookpad, which tracks how often people prepare and eat home-cooked meals in countries around the globe.
When the survey began in 2018, traditional gender roles were well established, but during the pandemic years the survey results showed that men were cooking more. This narrowed the gender gap, explains Andrew
多数国家“家庭烹饪”方面的性别差距在重新扩大
●杨奕威英语教育工作室　杨奕威
C. the difficulty of sending astronauts
D. the defects of the experiment
2. What led Mendoza to want to carry out the study?A. His childhood dream.B. His enthusiasm for science.C. His curiosity about Mars.D. His inspiration from the movie.
3. What can we infer from the Paragraph 4?A. There is not enough air on Mars for plants to survive.B. The frass are used to improve the Martian soil quality.
C. The larvae can break down almost any biomatter.
D. The soil can be replaced with black soldier fly larvae frass.
4. What would the author probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?
A. How Mendoza presented his experiments and findings.
B. How Mendoza finished his paper.
C. How Mendoza became famous.
D. How Mendoza got to the Mars.
参考答案
1. A 。

解析：细节理解题。

根据题干关键词“the
challenge ”“Emmanuel Mendoza ”，我们可定位至材
料第二段第三句，但这句话开头出现了代词“That ”，因此还需结合上一句来寻找答案。

材料第二段第二句提到“重量、体积和寿命限制了长途旅行中所能携带食物的种类和数量”，故食物限制是Emmanuel
Mendoza 要面对的挑战，A 选项符合材料意思。

2. D 。

解析：细节理解题。

根据题干关键词
“led ”“the study ”，我们可定位至材料第三段第二
句“The seed of this idea was from Ridley Scott ’s 2015 film The Martian ”，这一句说明他做实验的想法来源
于2015年的电影《火星救援》，D 选项符合材料意思。

3. B 。

解析：推理判断题。

根据材料第四段的最后一句“And then you can use black soldier fly larvae frass as a nutrient substance for soil ”，我们可知黑水虻幼虫的粪便（frass ）可以作为土壤的营养替代物，
此处的营养替代物（nutrient substance ）指的是原来火星土壤中缺少的物质，B 选项符合材料意思。

C 选项属于照抄原文，在推理判断题里不能选这类选项，
故排除。

4. B 。

解析：推理判断题。

根据材料结尾段的最
后一句，我们可知Mendoza 在完成实验后会将其写进论文里，这说明后面的段落很大可能会描述他是如何完成论文的，B 选项符合材料意思。

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