Unit 8 Quiz
单元小测验
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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.
Your answer Correct answer
D D
4. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
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.
Your answer Correct answer
B B
5. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
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.
Your answer Correct answer
D D
Part II
Directions: Listen to the passage(s) three times. When the passage is read for the first time, listen for the general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you hear. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10, write down either the exact words you hear or the
(1) yield
(2) identify
(3) central
(4) abnormal
(5) how
(6) to
(7) 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 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. 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 projects.
