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阅读理解Plants can’t municate by moving or making sounds, as most animals do. Instead, plants produce volatile pounds (挥发性化合物) —— chemicals that easily change from a liquid to a gas. A flower’s sweet smell, for example, es from such volatile pounds to attract insects such as bugs and bees.Plants can also discover  volatile pounds produced by other plants. A tree under attack by hungry insets, for instance, may give off these chemicals in order to let other trees know about the attack. In response, the other trees may send off their chemicals to keep the bugs away —— or even chemicals that will attract the bugs’ natural enemies.Now scientists have created a quick way to understand what plants are saying: a chemical sensor (传感器) called an “electronic nose”. The “e-nose” can tell such pounds as plants make. When plants are attacked, scientists say, the e-nose could help quickly decide whether plants are being eaten by insects. But today, the only way to spot such insects is to inspect individual plants by observing them. This is a challenging task for managers of greenhouses, including those that can house thousands of plants. The research team is working with an e-nose that can recognize volatile pounds. Inside the device, 13 sensors chemically react with volatile pounds based on the interactions (相互作用), and then the e-nose will give off electronic signals that the scientists can analyze by using puter software.To test the e-nose, the team presented it with healthy leaves from cucumber, pepper and tomato plants, all being mon greenhouse crops. Then scientists collected samples of the air around damaged leaves from each type of crop. These plants had been damaged either by insects or by scientists who made holes in the leaves with a hole punch (打孔器).The e-nose, it turns out, can identify healthy cucumber, pepper and tomato plants based on the volatile pounds they produce. It could also identify tomato leaves that had been damaged. But even more impressive, the device could tell which type of damage —— by insects or with a hole punch —— had been done to the tomato leaves.With some fine-tuning (微调), a device like the e-nose can one day be used in greenhouses to quickly spot harmful bugs, the researchers say. A device like this can also be used to identify fruits that are perfectly ripe and ready to pick and eat, says Natalia Dudareva, a biochemist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, India, who studies smells of flowers and plants. Hopefully, scientists believe, the device can bring large benefits to greenhouse managers in the near future.1.We learn from the text that plants municate with each other by ______.A.making some soundsB.waving their leavesC.producing some chemicalsD.sending out electronic signals2.What did the scientists do to find out if the e-nose worked?A.They fixed 13 sensors inside the device.B.They presented it with all mon crops.C.They collected different damaged leaves.D.They do tests on damaged and healthy leaves.3.According to the writer, the most amazing thing about the e-nose is that it can ______.A.pick out ripe fruits quite expertlyB.spot the insects in a very quick wayC.tell different damages to leavesD.recognize unhealthy tomato leaves4.We can infer from the last paragraph that the e-nose ______.A.is unable to tell the smell of flowersB.is not yet tested in greenhousesC.is designed by scientists at PurdueD.is helpful in killing harmful insects