新视野大学英语视听说教程4 quiz 3(2014版)

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A. She agrees with the man.

B. GMO spreads diseases.

C. GM fish are abnormally large.

D. Trees grow too fast.

3.

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.

4.

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.

5.

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. 6.

A. The man is against organ cloning.

B. The woman is against organ cloning.

C. The man is a scientist devoted to organ cloning.

D. The woman will let her organ clones once it fails. 7.

A. The two speakers have a lot of common interests.

B. The two speakers have both chosen Mr. Green's elective

course.

C. The woman has a lot of knowledge on genetics.

D. The man is beginning to like genetics.

8.

A. Both the man and the woman are against GM food.

B. Both the man and the woman are for the GM food.

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Part 3 Short passages/dialogs and blank filling

(每小题：1 分)

Directions: Listen to the following recording and then answer the questions by filling in the blanks. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time to write the missing words. Use the second playing to check your answers.

Questions 1 to 11 are based on the same passage or dialog. >>What did the European Parliament agree to do?

It agreed to let

>>What did several EU nations do five years ago?

They temporarily halted

>>What did the new rules made by the Parliament say?

Under the new rules, all foods that must

but without must be

labeled. So must all genetically changed

>>What did EU countries do in the 1990s and in 1998?

The European Union approved in the

1990s. But some countries in 1998.

>>What did U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman say?

They said the United States would push forward with

2.Why do the people of Iceland present a special opportunity to

study the human genome?

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.

3.Why is the Iceland genome project superior to the American

genome project?

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.

4.Why can the study of genes help to identify the causes of

diseases?

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.

5.What is the passage mainly concerned about?

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.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog. 6.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Dog Cloning: A Recent Scientific Advance.

B. The Superiority of Normal Dogs over Cloned Dogs.

C. Cloned Dogs in Training to Sniff for Drugs.

D. Sniffer Dogs: Best Candidates for Cloning.

7.What does South Korea's customs service hope the cloned

dogs will become?

A. Experts at finding human smugglers at airports.

B. Experts at finding explosives and drugs at airports.

C. Efficient guards at the custom house.

D. Efficient guards at railway stations.

8.How much does the training of a normal sniffer dog cost?

A. $300,000.

B. $30,000

C. $60,000.

D. $120,000

9.How many puppies continue until the end of the training?

Directions: Listen to the following recording, and then mark the statements T (true) or F (false). You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to write the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.

1.People can be divided into right-handed and left-handed, but

not into right-eyed and left-eyed.

A. True

B. False

2.People are cross dominant if they cut with their left hand, but

look with their right eye.

A. True

B. False

3.People are cross dominant if they can kick with both feet.

A. True

B. False

4.In some old cultures left-handers were considered evil.

A. True

B. False

5.Einstein was left-handed, and Newton was right-handed.

A. True

C. what

D. where

3.It's too late to ____________ the clock. We'll just have to

depend on common sense to solve uncommon problems.

A. return

B. turn around

C. turn back

D. turn round

4.Many prisoners have been freed through DNA testing, except

for the ones whose death sentence has already been

____________.

A. carried out

B. carried on

C. carried forward

D. carried away

5.—I guess there would be some tremendous medical

advantages in that sort of research.

—You've said ____________.

A. a mouth

B. the mouth

C. a mouthful

D. the mouthful

6.Plant breeders have already used preliminary information

from the rice genome to create experimental strains of rice

that better ____________ cold and pests.

A. resist

B. resist to

C. resist with

D. resist against

7.When scientists can identify and manipulate genes that cause

certain diseases, ____________ will cure them easily.

A. the mankind

B. mankind

C. the man

D. human race

8.All Americans eat biotech foods unless they deliberately seek

out products that are labeled ____________.

A. others

B. otherwise

C. through other ways

D. in other methods

9.Human beings must learn to ____________ a balance

between the welfare of a patient and that of a clone.

A. strike

B. hit

C. beat

D. access

10.Do you think it's wrong to ____________ with nature by

biotechnology?

A. interact

B. interconnect

C. interface

D. interfere

11.The American Association for the Advancement of Science

has suggested that human reproductive cloning

____________ banned until safety issues are resolved.

A. is

B. be

C. will be

D. has been

12.Serious ethical concerns have been raised ____________ the

future possibility of harvesting organs from clones.

A. to view of

B. to the view of

C. in view of

D. in the view of

13.Our daily bread and much else that comes into our kitchens

every day may already contain genetically modified

ingredients, ____________ the annoyance of campaigners,

who say not enough research has been done.

A. much to

B. much for

C. a lot for

D. a lot with

14.People can make an ____________ choice as a result of the

labeling of GM foods.

A. forming

B. formed

C. informing

D. informed

15.As there's no label, you've no ____________ of telling if it's

got GM or not.

A. road

B. street

C. way

D. lane

16.Inhabitants in northern China were genetically distinguishable

from those in the south, a finding that was ____________

historical migration patterns in China.

A. consistent with

B. consistent for

C. persistent to

D. persistent at

17.We don't know what these variants are responsible

____________. Some may have clinical outcomes and

influence disease development.

A. to

B. for

C. in

D. with

18.We turn off one of the native genes in the plant, so that it won't

____________ black in the supermarket or in your bowl at

home.

A. seem

B. see

C. come

D. go

19.The modified plants are all tested continuously to make sure

that they are not toxic, because that's the ____________ thing we want.

A. final

B. eventual

C. last