| The bees have been busy. There’s been lots to do. We’re throwing a party because ALICE IS TURNING 2 ! Come bug out with us, Saturday, July 4th 12 to 1:30 The Pavilion Mississippi Museum of Natural Science 2148 Riverside Drive, Jackson Regrets to the Queen Bee at 601-555-4111  |
1. The card above is_________
| A．a ticket | B．an invitation |
| C．a postcard | D．an advertisement |
| A．a birthday | B．the Queen |
| C．bee watching | D．the National Day |
| A．return the card | B．visit the Museum |
| C．contact Alice’s mother | D．ignore the message |
| A．urgent | B．annoyed | C．humorous | D．concerned |
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【推荐1】Alumni (校友), we are thrilled to welcome you back to campus for Illinois Homecoming. We hope that you are able to reconnect with friends and faculty, visit some of your favourite spots around the campus and the community, as well as see some of the ways we continue to grow.
Reservations & Overnight Accommodations
If you are travelling to join us for homecoming you may need overnight accommodations. Hotels tend to fill up quickly to make your reservations as soon as possible. You can see a list of local hotels on the Visit Champaign County website or on your favourite home-sharing website.
If you plan on dining in town, you can find some of the local favourites on the Visit Champaign County website. Call ahead or use your favourite reservation app to set up a reservation and limit your wait where applicable.
Homecoming Week Events
With homecoming events throughout the week, there is something for you to do whether you are staying for the week, weekend, or just for game day.
See the full calendar of events.
If you are in town for the Michigan football game on October 12th stay overnight and join us as we kick off homecoming week on Sunday, October 13th.
Homecoming 5K, Sunday, Oct. 13, 9a. m.
Go for a casual jog or compete for the top spot on a course that runs through the beautiful Illinois campus.
Kickoff Celebration & Pancake Breakfast, Sunday, Oct. 13, 10:30 a.m.
Bring the family as we celebrate the start of homecoming week by dying the Alice Campbell Alumni Center fountain orange and enjoying a pancake breakfast.
Jim Gaffigan, State Farm Center, Thursday, Oct. 17, 8p.m.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan has new material and is bringing his Secrets & Pies tour to Champaign!
Friday and Saturday are filled with college and department alumni celebrations and tailgates. Check out the homecoming calendar to see what your college or department is up to during homecoming week.
Homecoming Parade, Friday, Oct. 18, 6p. m.
Line the campus streets and catch candy from student organizations and notable university & community figures.
Illinois Football vs Wisconsin, Saturday, Oct. 19, 11 a. m.
Cheer on the Fighting Illini football team as they take on the Wisconsin Badgers in Big Ten play. Tickets are available at FightingIllini.com.
1. According to the passage, when will the homecoming week begin?| A．On Oct. 12. | B．On Oct. 13. | C．On Oct. 19. | D．Not mentioned. |
| A．To attract people to take part in homecoming events. |
| B．To arrange the events for Illinois Homecoming. |
| C．To advertise for Illinois Homecoming. |
| D．To provide information for the alumni. |
| A．The Michigan football game. | B．Homecoming 5K. |
| C．Pancake Breakfast. | D．Comedian Jim Gaffigan’s Secrets & Pies. |
| A．Illinois campus. | B．Wisconsin Badgers. |
| C．Alice Campbell Alumni Center. | D．State Farm Center. |
【推荐1】Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the second child of the family. Reese spent the first four years of her life in Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father John Witherspoon served in the US Army Reserves. Shortly after, John moved the family back to the United States, settling in Nashville, Tennessee.
Reese was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age at age 7, she began modeling. This led to appearances on several local television commercials. At age 11, she was placed first in a Ten-State Talent Fair.
In 1990, she landed her first major acting role in The Man in the Moon(1991). Her role as a 14-year old tomboy earned her good reviews. Roles in bigger films such as Jack the Bear (1993) and A Far Off Place (1993) followed shortly after.
Following high school graduation in 1994, Reese decided to have a pause in her acting career and attend Stanford University where she would major in English literature. However, her plans were shortly stopped when she accepted roles to star in two major motion pictures. Although neither film was a huge box-office success, they did help to make Reese a rising star in Hollywood and open the door for bigger and better film roles.
Her breakthrough role came as Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde In box office terms, the movie was a great success and made Reese one of the top female stars in Holywood. In the year 2014, she produced both Gone Girl and Wild, for which she got nominated (提名) for a best actress Oscar again for her role.
Reese is actively involved in children's and women’=s advocacy organizations. She is a longtime supporter of Save the Children, an organization that helps provide children around the world with education, health care and emergency aid.
1. Why did Reese stop her studies at Stanford University?| A．Because she starred in two successful films. |
| B．Because she couldn’t balance studies and acting. |
| C．Because she didn’t want to get higher education. |
| D．Because she was more famous in Hollywood. |
| A．The Man in the Moon. | B．Jack the Bear |
| C．A Far Off Place. | D．Legally Blonde. |
| A．Caring. | B．Defensive. |
| C．Disapproving. | D．Admiring. |
| A．Following the order of time. | B．Using figures. |
| C．Giving examples. | D．Making comparison. |
【推荐2】Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean (毕达哥拉斯) power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery (嘲弄) of what human life should be. I long to alleviate (减少) the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
1. Which would be the best title of the essay?| A．The suffering of life. | B．The truth about love. |
| C．The forces driving me. | D．The power of knowledge. |
| A．The shining stars. | B．Great winds. |
| C．A bottomless abyss. | D．A boundless ocean. |
| A．It relieves loneliness. | B．It brings ecstasy. |
| C．It provides a glimpse of heaven. | D．It leads to a marriage. |
| A．He regrets that he could not free himself of pity. |
| B．Human love is ultimately disappointing. |
| C．Heaven is merely a poetic invention. |
| D．A loving person naturally wants to relieve the suffering of others. |
【推荐3】Harry woke at five o’clock the next morning and was too excited and nervous to go back to sleep. He got up and pulled on his jeans because he didn’t want to walk into the station in his wizard’s robes——he’d change on the train. He checked his Hogwarts list again to make sure he had everything he needed, saw that Hedwig was safely shut in her cage and paced the room, waiting for the Dursleys to get up. Two hours later, Harry’s huge, heavy truck had been loaded into the Dursley’s car, Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry and they had set off.
They reached Kind’s Cross at half past ten. Uncle Vernon dumped Harry’s trunk on to a trolley and wheeling it into the station for him. Harry thought this was strangely kind until Uncle Vernon stopped dead, facing the platforms with a nasty grin on his face.
‘Well, there you are, boy. Platform nine - platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don’t seem to have built it yet, do they?’
He was quite right, of course. There was a big plastic number nine over one platform and a big plastic number ten over the one next to it, and in the middle, nothing at all.
‘Have a good term,’ said Uncle Vernon with an even nastier smile. He left without another word. Harry turned and saw the Dursleys drive away. All three of them were laughing. Harry’s mouth went rather dry. What on earth was he going to do? He was starting to attract a lot of funny looks, because of Hedwig. He’d have to ask someone.
He stopped a passing guard, but didn’t dare mention platform nine and three-quarters. The guard had never heard of Hogwarts and when Harry couldn’t even tell him what part of the country it was in, he started to get annoyed, as though Harry was being stupid on purpose. Getting desperate, Harry asked for the train that left at eleven o’clock, but the guard said there wasn’t one. In the end the guard strode away, muttering about time-wasters. Harry was now trying hard not to panic. According to the large clock over the arrival boards, he had ten minutes left to get on the train to Hogwarts and he had no idea how to do it; he was stranded in the middle of a station with a trunk he could hardly lift, a pocket full of wizard money and a large owl.
Hagrid must have forgotten to tell him something you had to do, liking tapping the third brick on the left to get into Diagon Alley. He wondered if he should get out his wand and start tapping the ticket box between platforms nine and ten.
Quoted from JK. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
1. Harry woke up so early in the morning probably because he _________.| A．wanted to try on his new jeans | B．needed to put Hedwig back in her cage |
| C．was asked to get prepared beforehand | D．looked forward to his new life of Hogwarts |
| A．rage | B．fear | C．regret | D．complain |
| A．Uncle Vernon had always treated Harry kindly and cared very much for him. |
| B．Harry arrived at the train station an hour before the scheduled departure time. |
| C．The Dursleys were happy to get rid of Harry and see him stuck in embarrassment. |
| D．Harry completely forgot how to find the way to Platform nine and three-quarters. |
