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30.What is the ultimate goal of the ICARUS project?A.To provide accurate pre-quake warnings.B.To develop an app to call for help during quakes.C.To seek worldwide cooperations in quake prediction.D.To find connections between animal behaviors and quakes.31.What is Wendy Bohon's attitude towards the ICARUS project?A.Disapproving.B.Doubtful.C.Intolerant.D.UncleanDPieter Bruegel's iconic 1565 painting The Harvesters hangs at the Metropolitan Museum ofArt.The work showed people harvesting wheat nearly as tall as they were."Nowadays,however,ifyou walk through a wheat field,you basically see that wheat is about knee-height.The reducedheight is essentially a consequence of breeding (along with genes for increasing productionto feed a growing population,"biologist De Smet explained.De Smet says wheat is just one example of how historical artwork can allow us to track thetransformation of food crops over time.He teamed up with art historian Vergauwen,a friend sincechildhood,to document such artwork around the world.They have been mainly looking at thingswhere they can spot changes in shape,color and size.Their interest in plants in artwork began with a visit to the Hermitage Museum,where theynoticed an odd-looking watermelon in an early-17th-century painting.It appeared to be pale andwhite on the inside.Biologist De Smet assumed the painter had done a poor job.But art historianVergauwen had a different idea."No,this is one of the best painters ever from that era.So if hepainted it like that,that's the way it must have looked like,"he explained.Other paintings revealed that both red and white watermelons were grown during the 17thcentury."With all the genetic knowledge we now have,we can look in more detail how somethingcomes about,"De Smet said."For example,until the 18th century,European strawberries appearedtiny in paintings-they then grew in size as they were crossbred with North American varieties."Ultimately,the team hopes to create an online research database of historical plant artwork.They seek the contributions of art enthusiasts around the world via the social media."However,"Vergauwen reminds,"if you're going to use,for example,Picasso to try and understand how a pearlooked in the early 20th century,you might be misled."英语试卷（第5页，共10页)
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