Questions 35- 39 Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 35-39 on your answer sheet.
原文
A ... Catalogued as MS408, the manuscript would attract little attention were it not for the fact that the drawings hint at esoteric knowledge, while the text seems to be some sort of code – one that no-one has been able to break. It's known to scholars as the Voynich manuscript, after the American book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who bought the manuscript from a Jesuit college in Italy in 1912.
D Yet Friedman's team soon found themselves in deep water. The precise size of the ‘alphabet' of the Voynich manuscript was unclear: it's possible to make out more than 70 distinct symbols among the 170,000-character text. Furthermore, Friedman discovered that some words and phrases appeared more often than expected in a standard language, casting doubt on claims that the manuscript concealed a real language, as encryption typically reduces word frequencies.
F Even though Friedman was working more than 60 years ago, he suspected that major insights would come from using the device that had already transformed codebreaking: the computer. In this he was right - it is now the key tool for uncovering clues about the manuscript’s language.
Voynich Researchers
第 35 题
William Newbold believed that the author of the Voynich manuscript had been able to look at cells through a _____ . Other researchers later demonstrated that there were flaws in his argument. William Friedman concluded that the manuscript was written in an artificial language that was based on ____ . He couldn't find out the meaning of this language but he believed that the ____ would continue to bring advances in codebreaking.
正确答案：microscope
第 36 题
William Newbold believed that the author of the Voynich manuscript had been able to look at cells through a ____ . Other researchers later demonstrated that there were flaws in his argument. William Friedman concluded that the manuscript was written in an artificial language that was based on _____ . He couldn't find out the meaning of this language but he believed that the ____ would continue to bring advances in codebreaking.
正确答案：concepts
第 37 题
William Newbold believed that the author of the Voynich manuscript had been able to look at cells through a ____ . Other researchers later demonstrated that there were flaws in his argument. William Friedman concluded that the manuscript was written in an artificial language that was based on ____ . He couldn't find out the meaning of this language but he believed that the _____ would continue to bring advances in codebreaking.
正确答案：computer
第 38 题
Dr Gabriel Landini used a system known as _____ in his research, and claims to have demonstrated the presence of genuine words.
正确答案：spectral analysis
第 39 题
Dr Gordon Rugg's system involved a grille, that made it possible to quickly select symbols that appeared in a _____ . Rugg's conclusion was that the manuscript lacked genuine meaning.