| A．Harry Potter is not as good as people think. |
| B．There are many good books for children. |
| C．The stories in Harry Potter attract people a lot. |
2 . Today, poetry and science are often considered to be mutually exclusive career paths. But that wasn’t always the case. The mathematician A da Lovelace and the physicist James Clerk Mahwah were both accomplished poets. The poet John Keats was a licensed surgeon. Combining the two practices fell out of favor in the 1800s. But translating research into lyrics, haiku, and other poetic forms is resurging (再现) among scientists as they look for alternative ways to inspire others with their findings.
“Poetry is a great tool for questioning the world,” says Sam Illingworth, a poet and a geoscientist who works at the University of Western Australia. Through workshops and a new science-poetry journal, called Consilience, Illingworth is helping scientists to translate their latest results into poems that can attract appreciation from those outside of their immediate scientific field.
Stephany Mazon, a scientist from the University of Helsinki in Finland, joined one of Illingworth’s workshops. In the workshop, she was grouped with other scientists and tasked with writing a haiku, a 17-syllable-long poem, which spotlighted water, a fluid that featured in all of the group members’ research projects. “It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly easy to write the poem,” Mazon says. She plans to continue writing. “We do a disservice (伤害) to ourselves to think that scientists can’t be artistic and that art can’t be use a to communicate scientific ideas,” Mazon says.
That viewpoint is echoed by Illingworth, who thinks science communication initiatives are too often dominated by public lectures with their hands-off PowerPoint slides. “Actually, when science communication involves writing and sharing poems, it invites a two-way dialogue between experts and nonexperts,” he says. Scientist-poet Manjula Silva, an educator at Imperial College London, agrees. Poetry provides a way to translate complex scientific concepts into a language that everyone can understand, Silva says.
Scientists and poets are both trying to understand the world and communicate that understanding with others. The distinction between scientists and poets is less than people might think. We’re all just people with hopefully really interesting things to say and to share.
What does Illingworth think of the dominant ways of science communication?| A．Conventional. | B．Effective. | C．Innovative. | D．Complex. |
1. Which animal was always sitting on the mat in Alex’s story?
| A．A rat. | B．A cat. | C．A dog. |
| A．Terrible. | B．Serious. | C．Impressive. |
| A．Alex. | B．Bob. | C．The woman. |
| A．Use rhymes as many as possible. |
| B．Rewrite his former stories. |
| C．Have a talk with Alex. |
4 . 听下面一段对话，根据所听内容填空。
It will be much safer to move the date to
5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man need to fix?| A．Plot. | B．Grammar. | C．Characters. |
| A．In May. | B．In June. | C．In July. |
| A．By e-mail. | B．By post. | C．In person. |
6 . 听下面一段对话，根据所听内容将下列句子补充完整。
W: Have you read this
M: No, I haven’t. I don’t really enjoy fiction.
W: I think you’d like this one—it’s a very fast paced adventure, and Brooklyn has a really
M: Really? Maybe I’ll try to read it when I’m on vacation.
7 . Books that can help teens manage anxiety
Children experience anxiety differently from adults, and it also looks different in each child. Fortunately, books can serve as tools for guiding children through the anxious thoughts and feelings they may experience. The following are four books that can help children effectively manage their anxiety.
The Healthy Coping Coloring Book and Journal by Pooky Knightsmith
This coloring book is specifically designed for children aged 8 to 14 and activities range from coloring to journaling and drawing, all of which are developed to help children deal with troubling situations. The different activities can be beneficial for self-expression.
Please Explain Anxiety to Me! by Laurie E. Zelinger and Jordan Zelinger
Written by psychologists, this story breaks down both the physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety. The story compares the natural anxiety kids feel to dinosaurs fearing being threatened in the wild. It explains that some anxiety (for example, a dinosaur’s anxiety about being eaten) can be our body’s way of protecting us from threats.
Sea Otter Cove by Lori Lite
This is a book that teaches children how to use proper breathing techniques to calm down, lower stress, and control anger. Through playful sea otters and other delightful characters in the book, children get to experience belly breathing. This effective, self-calming technique is also known as diaphragmatic breathing or deep breathing.
The Worry Glasses by Donalisa Helsley
This book is about a little girl named MJ. It tells the story of how she learns to defeat her worries. All through the story, her wonderful counselor Miss Jessica patiently helps her. The book includes a list of exercises designed to relieve kids’ anxiety. It also offers tips to parents and adults who live with anxious children.
1. What’s the common ground of the activities in Pooky Knightsmith’s book?| A．Encouraging children to express anxiety. |
| B．Helping children increase intelligence. |
| C．Measuring children’s mental health. |
| D．Inspiring children’s artistic talent. |
| A．Journal writing. | B．Controling anger. |
| C．Belly breathing. | D．Holding breath. |
| A．The Healthy Coping Coloring Book and Journal |
| B．Please Explain Anxiety to Me! |
| C．Sea Otter Cove |
| D．The Worry Glasses |
1. What does the speaker think of the novel The Red Gem?
| A．Boring. | B．Difficult. | C．Attractive. |
| A．The characters are vivid. |
| B．The pace is changeable. |
| C．The storyline is confusing. |
| A．The relationship between the characters. |
| B．The stories of the family’s friends and neighbors. |
| C．The author’s unusual way of dealing with problems. |
| A．It is convenient. | B．It is cheap. | C．It has good feel. |
9 . The following are recommended picks from NPR staff and trusted critics.
Good Night, Irene
by Luis Alberto
It’s historical fiction based on Luis Alberto’s mother, who served as a Red Cross volunteer in World War Ⅱ. These so-called Donut Dollies made doughnuts and served coffee in a truck, providing comfort to the soldiers. They also drove to the front lines during the battle. This novel is a comedy featuring characters that present friendship and courage in tough circumstances.
Homestead
by Melinda Moustakis
Homestead is a tale of what it was like to be brave enough to build a life and survive in rough Alaska. Melinda also excellently captures the complexities around a moment in American history that is reduced to a line or two in schoolbooks. The characters in Homestead are escaping troubled pasts tied to forces out of their control.
The Great Escape
by Saket Soni
The Great Escape begins in 2006, when Soni, a labor organizer, receives a midnight phone call from a Mississippi number. The caller is one of 500 foreign workers who paid $20,000 to a firm that promised green cards if they would help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. But the green cards were a lie. There’s a daring midnight escape of the men from camp, then a march to Washington, D.C.
The Porcelain Moon
by Janie Chang
Set against World War I in France, it tells the story of two women, who break general expectations and restrictions to find their love and lives. Camille, raised outside Paris in poverty, and Pauline, who works for her uncle at his Paris shop, are trying to avoid an arranged marriage. It’s a richly researched historical fiction book.
1. What’s the novel by Melinda about?| A．How people managed life in Alaska. | B．What volunteers did for brave soldiers. |
| C．What foreigners did for a green card. | D．How two women broke from tradition. |
| A．Supply food to the soldiers at war. | B．Move to Alaska to start a new life. |
| C．Remove their generational restriction. | D．Help rebuild after a hurricane strike. |
| A．They are about lives in the wild. | B．They are set in the two World Wars. |
| C．They deal with courage in face of lies. | D．They reveal the power of friendship. |
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