2. 外语
  3. Even plants can run a fever, especially when they are under attack by insects or disease.But【21】______ humans, plants can have

Even plants can run a fever, especially when they are under attack by insects or disease.But【21】______ humans, plants can have

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问题    Even plants can run a fever, especially when they are under attack by insects or disease.But【21】______  humans, plants can have their temperature 【22】______  from 3,000 feet away— straight up. A decade ago, 【23】______  the infrared(红外线的)scanning technology developed for military purpose and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley 【24】______  a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine 【25】______  ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmer 【26】______  target pesticide spraying 【27】______  rain poison on a whole field, which 【28】______  include plants that don’t have the pest problem.
   Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problem before they became 【29】______  to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet 【30】______ , an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were 【31】______  into a color-coded map showing 【32】______  plants were running "fevers". Farmers could then spot spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they 【33】______  would.
   The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers 【34】______  the new technology and long-term backers were hard 【35】______ . But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to 【36】______  into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works. "This technique can be used 【37】______  75 percent of agricultural land in the United States," says George Oerther of Texas A&M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Depart ment of Agriculture, thinks 【38】______  infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But 【39】______  Paley finds the financial backing 【40】______  he failed to obtain 10 years ago.
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选项 A、more than
B、less than
C、rather than
D、other than
答案C
解析 此题属于语篇衔接题。rather than表示“而不是”，根据句意，其目的是为了让农民准确地定点喷洒农药，从而与在整块田上洒农药做对比，选择前者，放弃后者，故选项Crather than正确。其他选项：Amore than；Bless than指量的多少;Dother than=except， anything but均与句意不符。
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