新视野听力答案 quiz8

Unit 8 Quiz

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Part I

Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.

1. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. He does not want to eat GM food.

B. He wants GM food labeled.

C. He does not care if GM food is labeled.

D. He agrees with the woman.

Your answer Correct answer

C C

2. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. She agrees with the man.

B. GMO spreads diseases.

C. GM fish are abnormally large.

D. Trees grow too fast.

Your answer Correct answer

A A

3. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. She wants the man to go to the meeting.

B. She wants the man to pick up the children.

C. She wants to clone the man.

D. She does not want a clone of the man.

A. Evolution is more efficient than lab experiments.

B. Evolution is less efficient than lab experiments.

C. Evolution produces better strains.

D. Lab experiments produce more strains.

A. The woman wants to be coaxed to clone herself.

B. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

C. Love is blind.

D. The man wants copies of the girl through cloning.

(1)

(2) identify identify (3) central central (4) abnormal abnormal (5) how how (6) to to (7)

signals

signals

(8)

The most important potential

application of human stem cells is perhaps the generation of cells and

tissues

(9)

Stem cells, directed to differentiate

into specific cell types, will offer a source of replacement cells and tissues (10)

it may become possible to generate healthy heart muscle cells in the

laboratory and then transplant those cells into patients with chronic heart

disease

Part III

Directions: Listen to the following recording, then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twic After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers. 1. What is the Iceland company doing?

A. Creating a detailed map of the genes of the Icelandic people.

B. Creating a detailed map of all human genes.

C. Creating a map as detailed as those by some other project

D. Creating a map less detailed than that by the American company.

Your answer

Correct answer

A. Iceland has a small population.

B. Most of the Icelanders have a small group of ancestors.

C. Plenty of records of their ancestors are available.

D. All of the above.

A. Because it observes 200 million people.

B. Because it observes 14 large families.

C. Because it observes more families than any other project.

D. Because it observes more families than many other projects.

A. Small genetic differences may be related to some diseases.

B. Large genetic differences may be related to some diseases.

C. The genetic similarity may throw light on some diseases.

D. Similar genes will cause similar diseases.

A. Finding out the history of Irish families.

B. Finding out the special genes of Irish people to cure their diseases.

C. Creating a detailed human genetic map to identify disease-causing genes.

D. Creating a detailed human genetic map to identify abnormally small genes.

A. go for it

B. go with it

C. get for it

D. get with it

A. how

B. who

C. what

D. where

A. return

B. turn around

C. turn back

D. turn round

A. carried out

B. carried on

C. carried forward

D. carried away

A. a mouth

B. the mouth

C. a mouthful

D. the mouthful