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  3. Even plants can run a fever, especially when they are under attack by insects or disease. But (1)_____ humans, plants can have t

Even plants can run a fever, especially when they are under attack by insects or disease. But (1)_____ humans, plants can have t

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问题     Even plants can run a fever, especially when they are under attack by insects or disease. But (1)_____ humans, plants can have their temperature (2)_____ from 3,000 feet away—straight up. A decade ago, (3)_____ the infrared scanning technology developed for military purpose and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley (4)_____ a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine (5)_____ ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmer (6)_____ target pesticide spraying (7)_____ rain poison on a whole field, which (8)_____ include plants that don’t have the pest problem.
    Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problem before they became (9)_____ to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 fee (10)_____, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were (11)_____ into a color-coded map showing (12)_____ plants were running "fevers". Farmers could then spot spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they (13)_____ would.
    The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers (14)_____ the new technology and long-term backers were hard (15)_____. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to (16)_____ into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt about the technology works. "This technique can be used (17)_____ 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States", says George Oerther of Texas A＆M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks (18)_____ infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But (19)_____ Paley finds the financial backing (20)_____ he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

选项 A、seeming
B、clear
C、apparent
D、visible
答案D
解析 此题属于语意搭配题。visible表示"看得见的"，根据句意，红外扫描技术可以在人们用肉眼看到病虫害之前就测出哪些庄稼会有问题，故选项visible正确。选项seeming表示"看起来"，选项clear表示"清楚的"，选项apparent表示"显然的，貌似的"。全句可译为：佩利的远红外遥感公司甚至可以在病虫害被肉眼发现之前就能找出哪些庄稼有问题。
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