3 . Tom Sawyer Play Is an Adventure

A 35-minute hand-clapping, foot-stomping musical version of a Mark Twain favorite returns with this Tall Stacks festival.

“Tom Sawyer: A River Adventure” has all the good stuff, including the fence painting, the graveyard, the island and the cave. It is adapted by Joe McDonough, with music by David Kisor. That’s the local stage writing team that creates many of the Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati’s original musicals, along with the holiday family musicals at Ensemble Theatre.

This year Nathan Turner of Burlington is Tom Sawyer, and Robbie McMath of Fort Mitchell is Huck Finn.

Tumer, a 10th-grader at School for Creative and Performing Arts, is a familiar presence on Cincinnati’s stages. He is a star act or of Children’s Theatre, having played leading roles in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Wizard of Oz,” and is fresh from Jersey Production “Ragtime”.

McMath is a junior at Beechwood High School. He was in the cast of “Tom Sawyer” when it was first performed and is a Children’s Theatre regular, with five shows to his credit. This summer he attended Kentucky’s Governor’s School for the Arts in Musical Theatre.

Note to teachers: Children’s Theatre has a study guide demonstrating how math and science can be taught through “Tom Sawyer.” For downloadable lessons, visit the official website of Children’s Theatre.

1. Who wrote the music for “Tom Sawyer: A River Adventure”?

A．David Kisor.	B．Joe McDonough.
C．Nathan Turner.	D．Robbie McMath.

2. What can we learn about the two actors?

A．They study in the same school.	B．They worked together in ”Ragtime“.
C．They are experienced on stage.	D．They became friends ten years ago.

3. What does Children’s Theatre provide for teachers?

A．Research funding.	B．Training opportunities.
C．Technical support.	D．Educational resources.

5 . From fighting aliens in A Quiet Place to helping his best friend in Wonder, Noah Jupe has played approximately 20 different characters. And he’s only 18!

According to Noah, lots of kids dream of becoming movie stars, and he was no exception. The first time he performed on a real set, he truly fell in love with acting. His career began in 2015 when he was 10 years old. That year, he appeared in a British TV show: the award-winning series Downton Abbey. Two years later, he made his feature film debut (初次登台) in The Man. Since then, he’s been occupied with many movie roles and has worked with some of Hollywood’s most accomplished actors. Noah’s been directed by George Clooney and has acted with Matt Damon, Nicole Kidman, Christian Bale and more.

Noah’s life has been full of opportunities. In an interview, he was asked how he stayed so levelheaded(沉稳的). He responded, “This industry is a very easy place to get lost.” But Noah stressed he had a great support system at home, and his family helped keep things normal. He made the conscious decision to stay in school and live in London, away from all the craziness of Hollywood, which gives Noah the privacy he values.

When he’s away on long movie shoots, he can’t wait to get back home. He says he loves going home to his family. According to Noah, the key is “to keep those people who you trust and care about as close as possible”.

At some point in the future, Noah hopes to make his own films and continue acting. He says, “I want to do what I’m enthusiastic about and keep doing it for the rest of my life!” Looking ahead, we can, no doubt, expect to see more great performances that involve the talent of Noah Jupe.

1. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A．Noah’s childhood dream.	B．Noah’s love for acting.
C．Noah’s career path.	D．Noah’s outstanding colleagues.

2. What makes Noah remain calm?

A．Opportunities and privacy.	B．Consciousness and family’s support.
C．Advice from accomplished actors.	D．London’s quiet atmosphere.

3. Which can best describe Noah as an actor?

A．Established and promising.	B．Productive but stressful.
C．Successful but doubted.	D．Stable and supportive.

4. In which column of a magazine or newspaper may the article appear?

A．Finance.

B．Custom.

C．Health.

D．Entertainment.

6 . Getting rid of(丢弃) old tyres(轮胎) has long been a problem. Every year many tyres are thrown. Some of the ways might be better than getting rid of them, but they are not especially green.

Energy recovery(回收利用) is one common way. This includes burning tyres to produce electricity, or as a way to provide heat for other industrial processes. But that produces planet-warming pollution. Tyres can be whole or broken in construction projects, such as repairing roads. There are, however, worries about chemicals from the tyres coming out and polluting the ground.

So some companies have begun exploring another pleasing idea. Since tyres are mostly made from hydrocarbons(碳氢化合物), it should be possible in principle to turn old tyres into environmentally friendly materials which can be used to run some cars they came from. One of the most thoughtful companies is based in Oslo, Norway. Later this year the company will start building a huge tyre-reused factory in Sunderland in northeastern England. In a couple of years, when the factory is fully operational, it will be able to turn 8 million old tyres into new products.

The process works by dividing a tyre into its three main parts. One is steel, which is used to support the structure of a tyre and which can be easily reused. The second is powder used to improve the continuous use of the tyre. The third is rubber. Some of that will be natural rubber from the rubber trees. The carbon black can be reused to make new tyres. That is of interest to tyre makers because it helps efforts to become carbon neutral(碳中和).

1. What is the disadvantage of energy recovery of tyres mentioned in the text?

A．It is unpractical.	B．It produces pollution.
C．It costs a lot.	D．It produces less electricity.

2. How is paragraph 3 organized?

A．By giving an example.	B．By making questions.
C．By following time order.	D．By comparing differences.

3. Which of the following best describes the huge tyre-reused factory?

A．Costly.

B．Useful.

C．Dangerous.

D．Short-lived.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．Tyres can be divided into three parts

B．A company built a tyre-reused factory

C．Energy recovery can deal with old tyres

D．Old tyres can become environmentally friendly materials

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

The road to a Nobel prize is growing ever longer, with almost half of winners now     1     (wait) more than 20 years from making a Nobel-worthy discovery to receiving the prize.

One analysis shows that the average time between publishing the work and receiving one of the science     2     (prize) has nearly doubled in the past 60 years. “In the early 20th century, Nobel winners were often in     3     (they) 30s, but now it is unheard of,” says Santo Fortunato,     4     published a 2014 analysis of Nobel prizewinners since the award’s conception in 1901. His results showed that the time between winners’ prizewinning research and their Nobel had     5     (slow) increased over the years.

There are a number of possible reasons for this trend. It could be that the overall number of breakthroughs     6     (increase) each year, so awards cannot keep up     7     the number of people who deserve to be recognized. It is also the case that the importance of some works     8     (realize) only years or decades later.

On the other hand, the lengthening gap could be     9     sign that there has been a decrease in ‘disruptive’ science—    10     (importance) studies or discoveries that change the paradigm (范式) of their field. This could be causing the Nobel committees to focus more on the past.

10 . We may weep for the dodo, but could and should we bring this lovely bird back from the dead? De-extinction is the science of restoring lost species and it has been in the news for decades.

The story in modern times began in 1990 when Michael Crichton published his science fiction novel Jurassic Park, in which he imagined a world where scientists were able to bring dinosaurs back to life. Crichton imagined that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology could be a way to amplify (放大) tiny quantities of dinosaur DNA and thus build a living embryo.

Sadly, biologists soon realized that DNA in fact breaks down super-fast; even after 100 years, DNA from museum skins of dodos was decayed (腐烂) beyond repair. They could be sequenced (测定序列) using massive computational power, but then only with considerable uncertainty. And even if you capture a DNA sequence, there’s still the problem of how you get living cells to read that sequence and express proteins that make the dinosaur or the dodo.

But why would anyone want to see mammoths, or something like them, roaming (漫游) present-day Siberia? Well, they were undoubtedly amazing beasts. As well as hunting them, our distant ancestors painted their likenesses in caves across Europe. Fascinating as they may be, there's some ecological justification for the project too.

It was this diversity of land surface, broken up by heavy limbs and randomly fertilised by faeces (排泄物), that supported so much flora (植物群). Without the mammoths, that diversity disappeared. Return them and landscapes would once again be with a variety of species, including flowers and bushes.

True, it’s not de-extinction in the sense of bringing a long-dead species back to life. Instead it’s more like making a “dodo” by engineering a modern pigeon, its closest relative, to become huge and flightless. The result would be a big, fatty pigeon that, whether it looked like a dodo or not, would probably fulfil some of its ecological roles.

As a palaeontologist, I would of course love to see living dinosaurs, mammoths and dodos. In some ways, though, I am relieved that the optimistic claims for cloning and genetic technologies have not been borne out. The slowdown gives us time to consider the outcomes—and hopefully avoid some of Michael Crichton’s more fevered imaginings.

1. What is paragraph 2 of the text mainly about?

A．A science fiction review.	B．The development of DNA.
C．An inspired guess of de-extinction.	D．The application of PCR technology.

2. What’s the barrier to cloning a living embryo?

A．DNA is hard to keep for long.	B．Computational power is limited.
C．Biologists are opposed to it.	D．Living cells can􀆳t be sequenced.

3. Why are people interested in cloning extinct species?

A．They expect to seek hunt fun.	B．They lack sources of modern art.
C．They need them for research.	D．They want to see biodiversity.

4. What’s the author’s attitude toward cloning extinct species?

A．Cautious.

B．Unclear.

C．Dismissive.

D．Approving.