2020 年 高 考 英 语 阅 读 理 解 D 原 文 、译文 、长难句解 析及答案详解 第一部分，阅 读 理 解 D 原 文 和译文 ： D The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies have found positive effects. A study conducted in Youngstown，Ohio，for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. In another，employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants. 人类与植物之间的联系长期以来一直是科学研究的主题。最新研究发现了二者之间一些积极的影响。例如，在俄亥俄州扬斯敦市进行的一项研究发现：城市绿化更好的区域犯罪率更低。在另一项研究中，当员工们的工作场所装饰有室内盆栽植物时，他们的工作效率会提升15%。 The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse，even unusual functions. These include plants that have sensors printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect harmful chemicals in groundwater. ＂We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day,＂explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. 麻省理工学院的工程师们对此研究更进了一步。他们改变了植物的结构，以便于让植物实现多种多样的，甚至是不同寻常的功能。其中包括：在叶片上印制传感器来显示是否缺水的植物，以及能够检测出地下水中有害化学物质的植物。“我们正在考虑如何能够设计出替代我们每天所用物品的功能的植物，”麻省理工学院的化学工程教授Michael Strano 解释说。 One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow(发光)in experiments using some common vegetables. Strano’s team found that they could create a faint light for three-and-a-half hours. The light，about one-...
