作者在短文中多次使用need和important等詞匯，還使用了一系列同義詞或相關(guān)詞、反義詞或?qū)?yīng)詞等，如：
(1)teachers—adults;
(2)young adults—typical teenage lifestyle—teenagers—young teens—students;
(3)emotional, intellectual and physical changes—growing bodies—new bodies—new intellectual and emotional challenges;
(4)achieving success—accomplishment—winners—successful;
(5)plan activities—a variety of small clubs—some kind of organization—organization—a variety of activities—organized;
(6)winners—losers 等。
借助這些相關(guān)詞組成的語意鏈我們可以更好地把握主題：教師應(yīng)針對青少年的特點組織活動以幫助學(xué)生們成長。
請注意2005年的短文中黑體字和斜體字的提示：
The human nose is an underrated tool. Humans are often thought to be insensitive smellers compared with animals, but this is largely because, unlike animals, we stand upright. This means that our noses are limited to perceiving those smells which float through the air, missing the majority of smells which stick to surfaces. In fact, though, we are extremely sensitive to smells, even if we do not generally realize it. Our noses are capable of detecting human smells even when these are diluted to far below one part in one million.
Strangely, some people find that they can smell one type of flower but not another, whereas others are sensitive to the smells of both flowers. This may be because some people do not have the genes necessary to generate particular smell receptors in the nose. These receptors are the cells which sense smells and send messages to the brain. However, it has been found that even people insensitive to a certain smell at first can suddenly become sensitive to it when exposed to it often enough.
The explanation for insensitivity to smell seems to be that the brain finds it inefficient to keep all smell receptors working all the time but can create new receptors if necessary. This may also explain why we are not usually sensitive to our own smells—we simply do not need to be. We are not aware of the usual smell of our own house, but we notice new smells when we visit someone else's. The brain finds it best to keep smell receptors available for unfamiliar and emergency signals such as the smell of smoke, which might indicate the danger of fire.
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