Theres a simple premise behind what Larry Myers does for a living: If you can smell it, you can find it. Myers is the founder of Auburn Universitys Institute for Biological Detection Systems, the main task of which is to chase the ultimate in detection devicesan artificial nose. For now, the subject of their research is little more than a stack of gleaming chips tucked away in a laboratory drawer. But soon, such a tool could be hanging from the belts of police, arson investigators and food-safety inspectors. The technology that they are working on would suggest quite reasonably that, within three to five years, well have some workable sensors ready to use. Such devices might find wide use in places that attract terrorists. Police could detect drugs, bodies and bombs hidden in cars, while food inspectors could easily test food and water for contamination. The implications for revolutionary advances in public safety and the food industry are astonishing. But so, too, are the possibilities for abuse: Such machines could determine whether a woman is ovulating , without a physical examor even her knowledge. One of the traditional protectors of American liberty is that it has been impossible to search everyone. Thats getting not to be the case.
Artificial biosensors created at Auburn work totally differently from anything ever seen before. Aromas can, for example, is a desktop machine based on a bank of chips sensitive to specific chemicals that evaporate into the air. As air is sucked into the machine, chemicals pass over the sensor surfaces and produce changes in the electrical current flowing through them. Those current changes are logged into a computer that sorts out odors based on their electrical signatures. Myers says they expect to load a single fingernail-size chip with thousands of odor receptors, enough to create a sensor thats nearly as sensitive as a dogs nose.
36. Which of the following is within the capacity of the artificial nose being developed?
A) Monitoring food processing.
B) Performing physical examinations.
C) Locating places which attract terrorists.
D) Detecting drugs and water contamination.
37. A potential problem which might be caused by the use of an artificial nose is .
A) a hazard to physical health
B) negligence of public safety
C) a threat to individual privacy
D) an abuse of personal freedom
38. The word logged most probably means .
A) preset C) entered
B) simulated D) processed
39. To produce artificial noses for practical use, it is essential .
A) to find chemicals that can alter the electrical current passing through
B) to develop microchips with thousands of odor receptors
C) to design a computer program to sort out smells
D) to invent chips sensitive to various chemicals
40. The authors attitude towards Larry Myers work is .
A) approving C)cautious
B) overenthusiastic D) suspicious
36.D 37.C 38.C 39.B 40.C
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