[2] Sneeze modeler: Most people turn away when they hear a sneeze, but University of California-Berkeley researcher Mark Nicas studies where on a person’s face spit will land when someone coughs or sneeze. He hopes to find the areas of the body most fragile to be attacked by the flu virus.

　　[3] Doomsday fact-checker: The movie 2017 focuses on doomsday, which is supposed to be the end of the world. Since it came out, archaeologists(考古学家) such as Anthony Aveni of Colgate University have been responding to hundreds of e-mails from “sleepless-teenagers” to tell them that the story is false.

　　[4] Dance observer: Peter Lovatt at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK observes people dancing and onlookers’ reaction, to discover the social motivations behind dancing.

　　[5] Bean counter: Purdue University scientist Andrew Robinson and his research team counted beans of 10 plants from each of the 72 plots of soybeans they had planted, to study which months are most productive to plant soybeans.

　　[6] Whale cutter: Michelle Berman of Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and his team cut open the whale and dolphins that are washed up on shore to study what killed them. Researchers often have to stand in knee-deep blood and cut through fatty whale oils, which can stick to the hair and skin.

　　1. List three characters that might be required to be a scientist mentioned above in the passage. (one word for each blank)

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