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Unit 4 Exploring poetry Period 3 Grammar and usage
Ⅰ. 阅读理解。
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What limits you from hiking more often? If not having a suitable hiking partner is keeping you out of the woods, why not take a look at the great hiking clubs across Canada?
Yukon Outdoors Club
Membership cost: $10 for a single membership
Description: The club organizes day hikes, backpacking trips, canoe trips, mountain biking, and crosscountry skiing trips for members to gain new skills and valuable information. The trips are open to everyone and range from easy to moderate to difficult.
UBC Varsity Outdoor Club
Membership cost: Students $40; nonUBC students $60
Description: The UBC Varsity Outdoor Club is a social group that hikes and rock climbs. Members lead trips, run skills workshops, and host presentations. Members can borrow equipment from the club. The UBC VOC has also constructed a few huts in the Coast Mountains.
Pender Harbour Hiking Group
Membership cost: Free
Description: The Pender Harbour Hiking Group offers a way for members to meet likeminded individuals and get fit. Hikes are scheduled two months in advance, so check the website regularly to find a hike that's right for you! Hikes are usually one and a half to two hours long every Monday and Wednesday morning, but some fullday hikes are scheduled, depending on member interest.
Vernon Outdoors Club
Membership cost: A single membership is $25, and students pay $10. Children are free when they come with a registered family member.
Description: The Vernon Outdoors Club is an active group that enjoys hiking and cycling. Members are encouraged to share their activity ideas and interests. The group organizes a Tuesday Activity each week.
( ) 1. Which club organizes its trips based on their members' hiking skills?
A. The Yukon Outdoors Club. B. The Vernon Outdoors Club.
C. The Pender Harbour Hiking Group. D. The UBC Varsity Outdoor Club.
( ) 2. What do we know about hikes organized by the Pender Harbour Hiking Group?
A. They are mostly held on weekends.
B. They are arranged two months ahead of time.
C. Their schedule is always emailed to the members.
D. More fullday hikes are offered than halfday hikes.
( ) 3. How much will they pay for the membership if Mr and Mrs Smith, together with their two children, aged 4 and 6, intend to join the Vernon Outdoors Club?
A. $70. B. $50. C. $45. D. $35.
B
Today, poetry and science are often considered to be completely separate career paths. However, that wasn't always the case. The mathematician Ada Lovelace and the physicist James Clerk Maxwell were both accomplished poets. Similarly, the poet John Keats was also a licensed surgeon. The combination of these disciplines fell out of favor in the 1800s. Recently, however, there has been a reappearance of interest among scientists in expressing their research through poetry, such as lyrics and haiku, as alternative ways to inspire others with their findings.
“Poetry is a great tool for questioning the world,” says Sam Illingworth, a poet and geoscientist who works at the University of Western Australia. Through workshops and a new sciencepoetry 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, participated in one of Illingworth's workshops where she and fellow scientists were tasked with writing haikus that highlighted water, a common theme in their research. “It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly easy to write the poem,” Mazon says. She plans to continue writing. “We do harm 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 handsoff PowerPoint slides. “Actually, when science communication involves writing and sharing poems, it invites a twoway dialogue between experts and nonexperts,” he says. Scientistpoet Manjula Silva, an educator at Imperial College London, agrees, noting that poetry simplifies complex scientific concepts into language that everyone can understand.
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.
( ) 4. What trend has been observed recently among scientists?
A. A decline in interest in poetry and science.
B. A preference for traditional research methods.
C. An increase in combining science and poetry.
D. A focus on historical figures like Ada Lovelace.
( ) 5. How does Sam Illingworth bridge the gap between science and the public?
A. By translating classic poetry into different languages.
B. By teaching at the University of Western Australia.
C. By advocating for more funding in geoscience research.
D. By organizing workshops and publishing a sciencepoetry journal.
( ) 6. How did Stephany Mazon feel about the experience of writing a haiku in the workshop?
A. It was challenging and difficult.
B. It was enjoyable and straightforward.
C. It was a waste of time.
D. It was too artistic for her taste.
( ) 7. What is one advantage of using poetry for science communication?
A. It simplifies complex scientific ideas for a general audience.
B. It promotes academic research in universities.
C. It replaces traditional boring science textbooks.
D. It emphasizes the significance of public lectures.
Ⅱ. 语法填空。
Poetry combines sound and sense, which implies a deeper meaning beyond the words on the page. Readers find it challenging to reveal the 1. ____________(hide) dimension. Here are some useful 2. ____________(strategy) on how to better understand and appreciate poems.
Firstly, follow your ears. You 3. ____________(advice) to ask “How does it sound?” instead of “What does it mean?” Read it aloud 4. ____________ you will feel how the poem sounds. Secondly, approach the poem as if you were an explorer in an unfamiliar landscape. Ask some basic questions to see concrete images in your mind. Then make 5. ____________ most of the surroundings to dig up clues to give you a greater understanding of the poem. Thirdly, if you are struggling 6. ____________(interpret) the meaning of a poem with much painstaking effort, just stay patient. Sometimes it takes a lifelong time to understand a poem 7. ____________(thorough). Poems that constantly reveal deeper and previously unrecognized meanings are more interesting 8. ____________ those that are easy to understand. Finally, it is 9. ____________(necessary) to fully understand the poem to appreciate it. Sometimes, to find a poem's inner beauty, you might need to abandon logical thinking.
Poetry's combination of “sound” and “sense” 10. ____________(allow) you to enjoy your journey in the world of poetry.
Ⅰ. 1—5 ABBCD 6—7 BA
Ⅱ. 1. hidden 2. strategies 3. are advised
4. and 5. the 6. to interpret 7. thoroughly
8. than 9. unnecessary 10. allows
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