2015福建泉州5月质检英语试题及答案(4)

A. Murray Pond Summer Art Camp.
B. Lutz Children’s Museum & Summer Camp at Oak Grove 2015.
C. Common Ground Environmental Center Summer Camps.
D. New Haven Ballet Summer Programs.
64. What do the first three programs have in common?
A. Students can learn about art and science.
B. Students can go hiking and playing with water.
C. Students can have chances to get close to nature.
D. Students can choose either morning classes or afternoon activities.
65. What do we know about New Haven Ballet Summer Programs?
A. Students are required to have been trained before.
B. They offer various camps for different age groups.
C. They aim to improve students’ creativity rather than dance skills.
D. Students have to go to the studios in person to register for a class.
66. Which of the following is TRUE according to the programs?
A. In the first program students have to attend four sessions to learn arts.
B. The longest session of the second program will last until late August.
C. To have fun and make friends, children should sign up for the third program.
D.The fourth program offers students of 6 the highest level of classical ballet training.
D
The Wednesday Wars is written by Gary Schmidt, the author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (2004). The story takes place during one of the most unrest times in 20th-century America, when the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement are ever present. This novel earned a Newbery honor in 2008 and was also nominated（提名）for the 2010 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader’s Book Award.
Holling Hoodhood is a 12-year-old seventh grader in 1967. In his school, the student body is largely divided between Catholics and Jews, and every Wednesday both groups attend weekly religious classes. Holling, the only Presbyterian, has to remain at class with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, who Holling thinks hates him for it.
Over time, however, Mrs. Baker spends the year with Holling exploring the plays of Shakespeare. By reading, Holling begins to realize there is more to the world than meets the eye. He also comes to understand Mrs. Baker, whose husband is missing in Vietnam.
Holling’s father, an architect with ambition, mainly concerns about his business and his standing in the community. He’s also determined to be the head of a perfect family, which unavoidably leads to conflicts with Holling and his older sister.
In the beginning, Holling is an unassuming（低调的）, agreeable boy who seems to take whatever Mrs. Baker has to dish out and tolerate immediate threats from other classmates. But by the end of the school year he has begun to develop the courage to stand up for himself and those he cares about, and to find beauty and life whenever possible. His growth into a mature almost-man is really moving.
Gary Schmidt somehow manages to balance being the father of six children, a professor of English and one of the most talented and thoughtful writers for young people. “I wanted to show the mixture between drama and comedy, sad moments and silly ones. That’s how we live our lives: really ping-ponging back and forth,” says Schmidt.
67. Holling has to stay in the classroom with Mrs. Baker because _____________.
A. he is not old enough to go to church
B. he enjoys the plays of Shakespeare
C. his teacher forces him to be with her
D. his religion differs from his classmates’
68. The underlined word “standing” in Paragraph 4 means ____________.
A. welfare B. fortune C. career D. status
69. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. The Wednesday Wars has won several awards.
B. Mrs. Baker hates Holling for the loss of her husband.
C. Reading Shakespeare helps Holling understand people better.
D. Holling’s father is concerned more about his business than his family.
70. According to Gary Schmidt, ____________.
A. a young man should learn to play ping-pong
B. sad moments and silly ones make life
C. we should try to live an energetic life
D. life is a mixture of ups and downs
71. The Wednesday Wars is mainly about _____________.
A. the unrest conditions of America in the 1960s
B. the wonderful childhood memory of Gary Schmidt
C. the growing process of Holling in his seventh grade
D. the generation gap between Holling and his parents
E
Astronauts in space may suffer motion sickness, muscle loss, tiredness and bone loss due to low or zero gravity and weightlessness. But scientists at the University of Delaware are experimenting with little worms to better understand how space travel affects astronauts.
The millimeter-long worm, called C. elegans, is often used in medical studies because its life is only about two weeks long. Seventy percent of its DNA is the same as human DNA.
Chandran Sabanayagam, a scientist with the University of Delaware, built a microgravity simulator（模拟器）to test how C. elegans would perform in the actual zero gravity of space.
Scientists use a computer to watch the worms as they constantly turn over the simulator. The computer shows the worms as they would look under a microscope. Mr. Sabanayagam says the worms turn around and around in the simulator for about one week before they take them out, looking for changes in the worms’ epigenome. The epigenome are chemical markers that relate to microgravity and that tell the DNA in the cells how to perform. They can be changed by the environment. And those changes pass from one generation to the next.
“When the worms are in microgravity environment some epigenomic marks remain even when we put it back into normal ground conditions. So its offspring（后代）keeps this epigenomic memory of the parents’ microgravity environment.”
The information gathered suggests that the epigenomic marks appear during the early part of a worm’s life. Mr. Sabanayagam says identifying epigenomic marks is important for human studies in the future.