Cambridge Shakespeare Festival 2020

Special Charity Performances

Once again, in loving memory of Margaret Elizabeth Crilly, the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival will continue its support of the Children’s Hospice in Milton and St. John’s Hospice on the Wirral, with a series of special charity performances. Every penny raised will go directly to these organisations.

All special charity performances begin at 2:00 pm in their usual venues (会场)；normal performances begin at 7:30 pm.

Eight Fantastic Performances

Hamlet     8 July-27 July

A Midsummer Night’s Dream       8 July-27 July

Henry IV (Part I)     8 July-27 July

The Winter’s Tale     8 July-27 July

Much Ado About Nothing     29 July-17 August

The Tempest     29 July-17 August

Henry IV (Part II)     29 July-24 August

As You Like It     29 July-24 August

Tickets

Tickets cost £17 and £13 concessions (减价票).

Tickets are available to purchase on our website. We regret the necessary imposition (征收) of a £1.50 booking fee per ticket, but the increase in our own administration costs has made this unavoidable.

IMPORTANT NOTES

Concession tickets:

Please note, you will need to bring proof of eligibility (资格证明) to buy concession tickets. Student concessions only apply to those with proof of being in full-time education. Other categories for concession tickets include the old, unemployed and disabled.

Seating policy:

There are about 200 chairs at each venue available on a first come, first served basis. There is also a picnic area immediately in front of the chairs for audience members to sit on the lawn (草坪)－though this is ground-level only, you should not use your own chairs in this area. Please note: purchase of a ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee a seat.

Setting goals is common in our life. We look ahead, predict what may make us happy in the future, and then narrow down the things to something specific. For the most part, having goals is better than not having any, but there are also problems that come with spending an entire life living from goal to goal.

For one thing, we attempt to predict an unpredictable future. Who is to say that what you want next year is the same thing you want right now? What if what you want right now isn’t in the right direction over the long term?

Secondly, and just as importantly, you only confine your expectations of happiness and satisfaction to the goal you have set so that you often forget that other things in your life can also add just as much joy to your experience. This creates a strange conflict.

To solve this conflict, we have to move towards something more vague (模糊的). Going after interestingness, I think is what we should do. It’s vague enough to be honest about the unpredictability of the future.

Interestingness isn’t hedonism (快乐主义). It’s deeper than that. It’s taking on that random project you had no plan to take on because you have a feeling that you might just learn something you didn’t know about yourself. It’s seeing a person you just met not as a potential partner or someone who can do something for you but simply as someone who may open a new, unknown and unique world for you. Goals incorrectly assume that we already know what we want. Interestingness is more modest. It makes up its mind as it moves, slowly blowing from one thing to another, until it eventually grasps something that lies beyond prediction.

A roadside system that detects if a mobile phone is in use in a passing vehicle is being tested in the UK first. Despite being unable to tell whether the driver is using the phone, it is hoped that it will act as a warning to people who make calls behind the wheel. The technology picks up the phone signal in the vehicle and activates a roadside warning sign of a mobile phone with a red line through it.

The system cannot tell the difference between a driver and a passenger on a bus, but to some degree it can warn drivers that they can be detected using their phones. Using a directional antenna (天线)，the detector picks up radio waves produced by a phone handset, and measures the signal strength and length of them. When a signal is detected of duration (持续时间) long enough and signal strength strong enough to set off the system, the detector activates the warning sign. The detector is able to distinguish Bluetooth connections or hands-free devices which, when picked up, will prevent the activation.

While this new system is no replacement for a police officer catching someone in the act, it could be enough to make some drivers think twice- and that has to be a positive step forward. However, just as technology has enabled the problem of drivers using mobile phones illegally, it can also be a big part of the solution in getting people to stop. Statistics from the devices will be shared with Norfolk Police, the county council said. The council said that enabling the system to record specific number plates could be a "future development".

Using a mobile phone at the wheel is one of the four road crimes which can have horrible consequences if it causes a deadly or serious car crash. Law enforcement (执行) technology has been falling behind for a decade and not made any easier by motor producers that encourage users to plug in their phones even before driving.

Social bond of animals

Friendship is an important part of human life. Friends can share our joys and our hardships. We aren’t alone.     12    

Recently, a British research team finished an eight-year study of Indo-Pacific dolphins off the coast of-Western Australia. These dolphins can use different tools to search for food.     13     Other factors, like family closeness, have no impact on this relationship.

“It suggests that dolphins form social bonds based on shared interests,” UK biologist Simon Allen told Science Daily. “Using different tools is time-consuming for dolphins to cooperate.”

Apart from dolphins, elephants, horses and bats are also known to form friendships.     14    

Of course not, The Atlantic reported. In 2015, a goat was originally left in a tiger’s enclosure (围场) as a meal.     15     The Atlantic said it’s not unusual among captive (圈禁的) animals. That’s because in captivity, animals don’t need to spend much time and energy marking their territory or looking for mates the way they would in the wild. They are actually more likely to feel bored. “In this particular situation, the animal’s motivation to engage socially and playfully may be higher than eating.”

    16     Take bats as an example. In 2011, scientists found bats prefer to hang out with a few certain friends, keeping loose ties to the rest of their group.

Humans aren’t so different. “We do not work, play and live together with the same friends all the time,” Swiss zoologist Gerald Kerth explained. “But nevertheless, we are able to maintain long term relationships... despite our often highly dynamic social lives.”

What is the most fun you can have in 21 hours and 23 minutes? On 15 October 2003, Yang Liwei answered this question. His ________ in space took him 600,000 kilometers in orbit, around the earth 14times, in just over21 hours. It made him China's first astronaut in space. He had worked towards this ________ for many years.

Born in 1965, Yang had wanted to ________ since he was a young boy. His friends and teachers have all said that he loved science and technology from a young age. He always had a( n) ________ of flying.

In 1983, he joined the army and went to flight school. He ________ in 1987 and became a pilot. In1998, he ________ to be a member of Project 921, which is now called Shenzhou. He was one of the only 14 ________ from 1, 500 candidates(候选人). The team spent the next five years being trained. They not only studied all the subjects ________ to be an astronaut, but also learned ________ skills and all about how spaceships and rockets are built. Yang scored among the very ________ in everything the group studied.

In September 2003, only three out of the 14candidates were ________ for the Chinese space adventure, and Yang was one of them. He took all kinds of tests to ________ he was fit for this important task. ________ he did not get the best scores on every single test, it was his high scores on the psychological(心理的）tests that finally won him the chance.

In the end, Yang was indeed a success. His name will go down in history. The people of China can be ________ of him and young people all over the world ________ him as an example of a man who managed to fulfill his dream.