1 . Exhibitions at Poetry Foundation

A.R. Ammons: Watercolors

Well-known as one of the most gifted and fruitful poets of the modern era, AR. Ammons was also a great painter. This exhibition focuses on Ammons’s abstract watercolors painted from 1977 to 1979,a time of intense productivity.The abstraction of these watercolors is in line with those found in Ammons's poems and offers an expanded understanding of his art.

Date: January9-April 30
Jun Fujita: American Visionary

This exhibition focuses on the extraordinary achievements of poet and photojournalist Jun Fujita. Born outside Hiroshima,Fujita came to Chicago in 1909,becoming the first Japanese American photojournalist. He published his poems regularly in Poetry magazine, and as a photographer he captured (拍摄) many of the most famous moments in Chicago history.

Date: January 24- March 31
Poetry by Winterhouse

The Winterhouse design studio, cofounded by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, worked with Poetry magazine for 12 years, contributing to the rebirth of the magazine's design and the first Poetry Foundation brand identity. Poetry by Winterhouse illustrates the magazine's rich history and the expansion and development of its visual style.

Date: May 15-August 27
The Life o f Poetry in Morden Tower

Morden Tower, now one of Britain’s literary landmarks, was once a dusty, nearly abandoned building. That changed in 1964 when Tom and Connie Pickard began a new reading series in the tower. Morden Tower quickly became an international poetry center and housed poetry history. This exhibition honors that history with a showcase of posters from the1960s and 1970s advertising readings, photos, and letters.

Date: September 5-December 20
1. Who was both a poet and a painter?

A．Jun Fujita.

B．Connie Pickard.

C．A.R. Ammons.

D．William Drenttel.

2. Which of the following exhibitions shows photos of Chicago history?

A．The Life of Poetry in Morden Tower	B．Jun Fujita: American Visionary.
C．AR.Ammons: Watercolors.	D．Poetry by Winterhouse.

3. When can you see the exhibition featuring an international poetry center?

A．On January 30.

B．On February 16.

C．On August 27.

D．On October 20.

2 . Today, poetry and science are often considered to be mutually exclusive(互相排斥)career paths. But that wasn’t always the case. The mathematician Ada Lovelace and the physicist James Clerk Maxwell 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 used 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.

1. What is the purpose of mentioning the celebrities in paragraph 1?

A．To display they were talented.

B．To confirm they were out of favor.

C．To encourage different career paths.

D．To show poetry and science can be combined.

2. What are Illingworth’s workshops aimed to do?

A．Promote a new science-poetry journal.

B．Inspire outsiders to pursue their careers in science.

C．Encourage science communication through poems.

D．Get scientists to exchange ideas about the latest research.

3. What does Illingworth think of the dominant ways of science communication?

A．Conventional.

B．Effective.

C．Innovative.

D．Complex.

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

A．Scientists Take on Poetry

B．Scientists and Poets Think Alike

C．Poetry: A Great Tool to Question the World

D．Science Communication: A Two-way Dialogue