1 . 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

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To write his own medical text, Li Shizhen referenced over 800 medical texts, countless books on history and geography, and works of literature. He even studied the complete works of many ancient poets, from     1     he selected a surprising number of verses about medicine. However, the greatest issue he encountered was the widespread     2    (inconsistent) in the use of drug names. Realising the importance of field research outweighed     3    of extensive reading, in 1565 Li travelled far and wide into the mountains and wilderness. He covered what are today’s provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu, and many other places.

After over a decade of field research, Li     4    (successful) completed the first draft of his masterpiece, Bencao Gangmu, or the Compendium of Materia Medica in 1578. He revised     5     work at least three times right up until his death in 1593.

Since its first publication in 1596, the book     6    (receive) world-wide recognition. British naturalist Charles Darwin acknowledged the book     7     an “ancient Chinese encyclopedia.” In 2011, the book    8    (list) on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. In 2017, an international conference was held in Beijing     9    (celebrate) Li’s 500th birthday.

Today, there are a     10    (grow) number of international exchanges centering on Li Shizhen and his book, and many people around the world can still find the wisdom of human development in this ancient classic.

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When Lin Zhanxi first introduced mushroom cultivation(培育) to the Gobi Desert residents of Ningxia, he didn’t expect such a phenomenal success.     1     inventor of juncao, a method that uses grass cuttings as substrate (培养基) for growing eatable and medicinal mushrooms, has long been committed     2     expanding the method in poverty relief.

In the 1980s, as a professor at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin experimented with grass instead of logs to grow mushrooms because logs weren’t     3     (ready) available for many rural households while grass,     4     leaves and roots can be used for ecological management, is an essential multi-functional agricultural resource. In 1986,Lin made it, and soon his method     5     (adopt) by 51 counties in Fujian.

When juncao was made a key project in the pairing-off cooperation between Fujian and Ningxia in 1997, Lin advocated     6     (take) advantage of abandoned cave dwellings(窑洞) for growing mushrooms in Ningxia. The project doubled the farmers’ yearly income that year.

The success made juncao     7     (promote) in 506 China’s counties and it was then introduced to 106 developing countries. This world-famous innovation     8     (bring) welfare to millions of people so far. What touched Lin most during his journey to other countries to help develop juncao technology was that a foreign minister even named his daughter after juncao in honor of China’s     9    (assist).

“I feel I have a new mission     10     (shoulder), even after China wins its battle to reduce poverty. I can still foresee the importance of juncao in helping farmers better their situation and improving the ecology and the environment around us,” he said.

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A group of 10 high-profile figures and common citizens gifted with wisdom, bravery and determination, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Yang Zhenning included,     1     (honor) as inspiration-al role models in this year’s Touching China awards announced by China Central Television on Thursday this March.

Yang Zhenning, a     2     (respect) Nobel Prize-winning physicist, became the first Chinese-American scientist to return to China after the US just lifted the ban on     3     (visit) to China in 1971. Yang also sponsored a number of Chinese scholars so they could have opportunities     4     (further) their studies in the US.

Another nominee was Su Bingtian, the first Chinese athlete     5     competed in the men’s 100-meter sprint final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. At     6     age of 32, he shocked the world by finishing first in his group     7     a time of 9.83 seconds on the semi- final.

This year’s Touching China awards also focused on China’s space community for opening new horizons in the starry ocean of the cosmos,     8     (include) building China’s own space station, Tianwen-1, and the exploration of Mars.

In 2021, the war epic film, The Battle at Lake Changjin,     9     (take) the Chinese audiences to the site of a battle during the War to Resist the US Aggression and Aid Korea. Moviegoers learned about Zhu Yanfu, the only     10     (survive) of the battle and one of the winners for this year’s Touching China awards.

6 . Virtually, there is nothing that man cannot do. Only what he has to do is keep doing and doing without being discouraged. Success will come someday or other, though it may apparently be the conception about something that it cannot be done.     1     But the reality is that man’s success depends on whether he can do the toughest tasks successfully. It is because our life is complicated and tough. And to succeed in this tough battle, perseverance and hard work are a must     2    . We can prove this fact when we look at the reality of life and the history of man’s success. Perseverance helps us do what we otherwise would consider impossible to do.

What the world-famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton had done by twelve years’ constant hard work was burnt out by his pet dog. But that could not discourage him a little.     3     It is only for his undefeated perseverance that’ we have been able to have many inventions and discoveries.

    4     He went through thick and thin to reach his destination after months of the strenuous voyage on the sea. He discovered the way from Spain to America and offered the world a new route of communication with America. This outcome of his perseverance will be generated by the world forever.

All the great men in history have written their names in golden letters by means of perseverance.     5     If we all are perseverant in whatever we do, we are sure to stand out as a successful nation in the near future.

A．Every action has its reaction.

B．It is a unique precondition to success in life.

C．In human life, perseverance plays a very important role.

D．Their success will always remain as perfect examples to us.

E．Columbus has left us an adventurous story of perseverance.

F．The task that is easily done at the first attempt is undoubtedly very easy.

G．He was able to do it again through years of hard work and perseverance.

7 . Song Yingxing was a Chinese scientist and encyclopedist (百科全书编纂者) who lived during the late Ming Dynasty. The British biochemist and historian Joseph Needham called him “The Diderot of China”.

Song Yingxing was born in Fengxin county in Jiangxi province in 1587. He took part in the second highest imperial (科学) examinations in Beijing six times, but failed to become a jinshi. After that, he decided to give up taking exams and turned to the practical knowledge of natural science. Then Song Yingxing spent four years teaching his students in his hometown.

Although it was a job like teaching, it was a very important stage in Song Yingxing’s life, because many of his works were written here. And Song Yingxing had been living in a secluded (隐居的) life in the past ten years. Because he didn’t want to be an official, Song Yingxing lived a very poor life in his later years.

He was the author of Tian Gong Kai Wu, an encyclopedia that covered a wide variety of technical subjects. As Joseph Needham has observed, the vast amount of accurately drawn illustrations in this encyclopedia dwarfed the amount provided in previous Chinese encyclopedias, making it a valuable written work in the history of Chinese literature. Tian Gong Kai Wu records all aspects of technology up to the mid-Ming period. The book constitutes a complete system of science and technology, and provides a systematic summary of ancient Chinese technology, the experience accumulated by China in agriculture, and China’s achievements in technology.

Many of the production techniques described in the book are still in use today. At the same time, Tian Gong Kai Wu broke from Chinese tradition by rarely referencing previous written work. It was instead written in a style strongly suggestive of personal experience. The book was translated into Japanese, French, English, German, Italian, and Russian, and was widely circulated in Europe and Japan.

In addition, Song Yingxing had made great achievements in many fields. His research was very extensive. In physics, he studied the occurrence of sound and, finally concluded that sound is transmitted in the air.

1. What can we learn about Song Yingxing from the text?

A．He adjusted the direction of life.	B．He dreamed to be a great scientist.
C．He received a science education.	D．He passed imperial examinations.

2. Which of the following best describes Song’s teaching life?

A．Busy but satisfactory.	B．Significant and rewarding.
C．Comfortable but worthless.	D．Challenging and intolerant.

3. What’s the possible meaning of the underlined word “dwarfed”?

A．Make something seem smaller.	B．Apply something to practice.
C．Provide evidence of something.	D．Take advantage of something.

4. What is one of the features of Tian Gong Kai Wu?

A．It provided abundant first-hand experience.	B．It was written in multiple foreign languages.
C．It focused merely on agricultural technology.	D．It largely referenced previous encyclopedias.

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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who have been working for decades     1     (find) ways to use genetic (基因的) material called messenger RNA, or mRNA, to make medicines, have won the 2023 Nobel Prize. They have discovered that changing a chemical building block of mRNA can keep the immune system (免疫系统)     2     destroying the material and have enabled it to attack viruses instead.

They published their work in 2005 and their discovery     3     (fundamental) changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system. In     4     (add), the work sped up vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.

    5     (speak) to reporters at Pennsylvania University on Monday, Weissman said they had to overcome many difficulties. “But Karikó lit the match     6     then we spent more than 20 years figuring out how to get it to work,” Weissman said.

Karikó had to overcome even bigger     7     (challenge). She     8     (force) to resign from Pennsylvania University and went from one low-paying research job to another and even slept in her office at times. But she never gave up.

The first prize in the category was awarded in 1901. Of the 227 people     9     work has been recognized with the prize, Karikó is the     10     (thirteen) woman among them.

9 . Eugene Newman Parker, a leading figure in heliospheric(日球层的) physics for the past half century, passed away peacefully at his home in Chicago on Mar. 15. He was 94.

Hailed(誉为) as a visionary in the field of heliophysics, Parker revolutionized our understanding of the sun and its effects on Earth and other bodies within the solar system. NASA even stated that “the field of heliophysics exists in large part because of Dr. Eugene Parker. In 2018, Parker became the first living scientist to witness the launch of a spacecraft that was named in his honor.

Parker is best known for his groundbreaking theory on the existence of a phenomenon called “solar wind”, a continuous stream of charged particles that flow off the sun. It can become violent, causing space weather that impacts the Earth. When Parker’s research was published in 1958, his theory was initially met with skepticism(怀疑) and ridicule by the scientific community. The general view at the time was that the space between planets was an absolute vacuum(真空), and was thus completely empty of any matter. But, there were no errors in his study or his calculations, and the theory was later proven to be correct in 1962, when a NASA spacecraft mission to Venus revealed the constant presence of a supersonic wind—exactly as Parker had predicted.

That experience likely led to the advice Parker often gave young researchers: “If you do something new or innovative, expect trouble. But think critically about it because if you’re wrong, you want to be the first one to know that.” Parker never co-authored a paper with his students, thus urging them to be independent.

Parker was humble, straightforward, and wise. His son Eric said, “My sister Joyce and I didn’t get a real feel for what a ‘big dog’ our dad was in the field.” They got an even better sense when a month after Parker’s death, they traveled to Lund, Sweden, to accept on his behalf the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy.

1. What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A．A spacecraft was named in memory of Parker.

B．The sun has less effects on Earth than expected.

C．Parker deserved credit for his great contributions.

D．NASA provided new insights into the lunar effect.

2. Why did people view Parker’s theory of “solar wind” skeptically at first?

A．It went against the popular opinion at that time.

B．Some mistakes were found in his calculations.

C．The presence of a supersonic wind was proven by NASA.

D．Matter was believed to exist in the space between planets.

3. What did Parker suggest young researchers do?

A．seek close cooperation	B．avoid high expectations
C．learn by trial and error	D．compete against others

4. What words can be used to describe Parker according to the passage?

A．straightforward and generous	B．responsible and accessible
C．intelligent yet conservative	D．distinguished yet modest