1 . With so many festivals taking place in the UK, it’s getting harder every year to decide which ones to go to—and more importantly, which ones you can actually afford.
Parklife — Heaton Park, ManchesterDates: 10th — 11th June
Headliners: The 1975, Skrillex and Aitch
Cost: From £149.50 (weekend ticket), from £84．50 (one-day ticket)
Manchester’s favourite music festival is, unsurprisingly, a favourite with the city’s large student population. The weekend usually features a top-drawer line-up with loads of acts. You can’t camp at Parklife, so you also have to factor in accommodation in Manchester.
Latitude — Henham Park, SouthwoldDates: 20th — 23rd July
Headliners: Pulp, Paolo Nutini and George Ezra
Cost: £286.45 (weekend ticket with standard camping), from £90.75 (one-day ticket)
Latitude is one of the pricier festivals out there, but the lineup normally justifies (证明……正确) the dollar. The festival will have big artists alongside its main headliners. It’s a great all-rounder festival, where you can get back to nature by camping and lake swimming before dancing to DJs until the early hours.
Wireless — Finsbury Park, LondonDates: 7th — 9th July
Headliners: Playboi Carti, Travis Scott and 50 Cent
Cost: From £248.39 (weekend ticket), from £88 (one-day ticket)
We’re still a bit upset with Wireless for cancelling the festival’s Birmingham stop, making it a London-only event. Wireless hosts the sounds of grime, hip-hop, rap and R&B in North London’s Finsbury Park. Wireless isn’t a camping festival, so you’ll have to factor in the price of London accommodation for this one.
Victorious — Southsea Seafront, PortsmouthDates: 25th — 27th August
Headliners: Jamiroquai, Kasabian and Ben Howard
Cost: £180 (weekend ticket with camping), £60 (one-day ticket)
Although it has an excellent line-up of big names, this is still a relatively little-known festival. Since there are so many big acts, it’s also a pretty cost-effective option too. Best of all, the Castle Stage is situated in front of the stunning Southsea Castle, making this one of the most picturesque festivals around.
1. What do Parklife and Wireless have in common?| A．They are for students. | B．They are in London. |
| C．They don’t offer campsites. | D．They are in July. |
| A．Heaton Park. | B．Henham Park. | C．Finsbury Park. | D．Southsea Seafront. |
| A．Parklife. | B．Latitude. | C．Wireless. | D．Victorious. |
2 . According to the Houston Health Department, for nearly one-quarter of children living in Houston, Texas, the choice to eat healthily doesn’t exist. Annie Zhu was shocked to find out so many children in Houston lived in food deserts — areas without access to fresh food. She was also shocked to see how much fresh food supermarkets discard (丢弃) every day. So she and her twin sister Shirley went to work.
First, they partnered with the Houston Health Department to give out food at community centres. With the help of Second Servings, they collected surplus food from grocery stores and began organizing monthly markets. They even connected with human service agencies to provide help beyond food. Lastly, they developed a simple app that tells people when and where the markets are. Since the food is fresh, it needs to be picked up right away, so they developed the text and messaging app Fresh Hub.
Each month, Fresh Hub organizes high schoolers who wear green shirts and go to work setting up stands of fresh produce, baked goods and packaged meats. The Zhu sisters and the green dream team have given out over 1,500 pounds of food. And while families are collecting food, volunteers are entertaining kids with art projects that teach healthy eating.
At the end of the day, Annie says the two are happy to be making a difference. “Frustration (沮丧) over the unfair circumstances built into society led us to meet amazing people,” says Annie. “I know I’m not alone on this journey to help the underserved — and I know our journey has only just begun!”
1. Why do one-quarter of children living in Houston eat unhealthy food?| A．They live in deserts. |
| B．The supermarkets waste lots of fresh food. |
| C．They find nowhere to get fresh and healthy food. |
| D．They choose unhealthy food instead of fresh food. |
| A．Extra. | B．Different. | C．Fresh. | D．Sufficient. |
| A．How to use the app Fresh Hub. |
| B．The Zhu sisters’ green dream team. |
| C．How much food they have given out. |
| D．The things volunteers do to help those families. |
| A．She prefers to work alone. |
| B．She will continue to help those in need. |
| C．The members of the team need to be replaced. |
| D．The unfair circumstances are good for the society. |
3 . Growing up, singer-songwriter Trevor Martin knew his childhood was a little different from those around him.
When Martin was born, he wouldn’t
Martin was 8 years old when he
Music has always been a
As a (n)
| A．stop | B．keep | C．consider | D．practise |
| A．forced | B．invited | C．rushed | D．attended |
| A．nervous | B．realistic | C．curious | D．positive |
| A．chance | B．turn | C．challenge | D．reason |
| A．realized | B．recalled | C．admitted | D．noted |
| A．caught | B．fixed | C．rolled | D．opened |
| A．made up | B．picked up | C．given up | D．raised up |
| A．musician | B．writer | C．activist | D．dancer |
| A．gently | B．deeply | C．tightly | D．closely |
| A．saved | B．improved | C．prevented | D．inspired |
| A．picked out | B．set off | C．put out | D．turned off |
| A．easy | B．comfortable | C．funny | D．cool |
| A．open | B．active | C．strange | D．honest |
| A．opportunity | B．ability | C．desire | D．courage |
| A．secrets | B．dreams | C．ideas | D．attempts |
In class, I am sitting next to Mareena. We both have a good laugh. And when we laugh, it’s not small laughs. It’s more like big hair, we twist (扭曲) in laughter on our chairs and we end up under the table so much we are folded (折叠) in two. Sometimes, too, she annoys me a bit, especially when she uses my eraser or my pink pen that writes magic words. But best friends always fight a bit, that’s normal, Mum often tells me.
One morning, I found myself alone at my table. Mareena was ill. I found the day long, but I still laughed a bit. Because when Baptiste meant to say Madagascar (马达加斯加岛), he mistakenly said Madame Gaskal.
The next day, when I saw that Mareena was still away, I asked Mum if I could go to see her at her place. I wanted to bring her homework, but also make her laugh a little, so that she would feel better. Mum made a funny face and told me it was better to wait a few days. I thought maybe Mareena had a contagious (传染性的) disease. But still, it bothered me not to see my best friend. So I asked again. This time mum sat down with me on my bed and held my hands very tight. I realized that something was wrong.
Mum explained to me that Mareena was going to have to stay in the hospital for a while, because of an illness that I didn’t understand. Well, yes, what I understood was that my best friend wasn’t going to be back to school for a long time, and that we wouldn’t be laughing like whales anytime soon because of stupid things.
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2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I still asked to go to see Mareena once at the hospital.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Mareena eventually recovered.
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However, distance learning has become a (n)
6 . Jack London, one of America’s major writers of adventure tales, was born in California in 1876. During his life, London worked at many jobs. His broad life experiences would become the background for his writing.
London, loved to read. As a teenager, he spent many hours educating himself at the Oakland, California, public library. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, but he stayed for only six months. He though Berkeley was “not lively enough” and wanted to do something more exciting.
London wrote stories about working people and the hard times they had making a living. He knew their problems first hand. He worked as a sailor, farmer, factory employee, railroad worker, and gold prospector, to name just a few of his many jobs.
London grew up near the waterfront in Oakland. He loved the water. When he was fifteen years old, he bought a small sailboat called a sloop. Later he sailed to Japan on a schooner, which is much large sailing boat. Like many people of the time, London caught the Klondike Gold Rush Fever. In 1897, he headed for Alaska. He didn’t find gold, but he discovered something even more valuable. He discovered that people enjoyed listening to the stories he made up with his vivid imagination. London entertained the miners with story after story. Later, using his experiences during the Gold Rush, he created many more colorful stories.
London resolved to live a full, exciting life. He once said, “I would rather be a superb meteor (流星), every atom of me in magnificent glow,than a sleepy and permanent planet.” Each day, he pushed himself. Once London determined that he was going to be a writer,nothing could stop him. His goal was to write at least one thousand words everyday. He refused to stop even when he was sick. In eighteen years, the writer published fifty-one books and hundreds of articles. He was the best-selling and highest-paid author of his day. Many people also considered him to be the best writer. White Fang and The Call of the Wild are his most famous stories and are about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness. Readers can enjoy Jack London’s energy and his talent for telling wonderful stories each time they open one of his novels.
1. Why was Jack London able to write on many topics?| A．He pushed himself to reach goals. |
| B．He had a variety of experiences and jobs. |
| C．He was drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush. |
| D．He was the best-selling and highest-paid author. |
| A．That he was hired to sail to Japan. |
| B．That he traveled to Alaska in 1897. |
| C．That he spent much of his time writing. |
| D．That he was not interested in college life enough. |
| A．is expert at universe. |
| B．aims high and strive to succeed. |
| C．is excited about life of the wildness. |
| D．face a choice between life and death. |
| A．To support the statement that London was the “best writer”. |
| B．To describe life during the Klondike Gold Rush. |
| C．To provide information on Jack’ s life. |
| D．To identify books written by Jack London. |
On the second floor of the Zitong Art Gallery, 43-year-old Jiang Xiaoqi n is working on her painting in a studio,
Around her are five other men and women,
Only they aren’t. They are farmers from Dujing village, the administrative seat of Zitong township, Chun’an county
Starting to learn painting only three years ago, Jiang has already made
1.提出申请；
2.介绍个人情况；
3.表达期望。
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2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
3.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：traditional Chinese literature中国传统文学；Chinese characters汉字
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Learning how to choose a career is important not only to adults but also to students at college. People decide to have their careers
The best way to do this is take a personality test,
Therefore, putting interests and hobbies into careers can always lead
1. Why is the man talking to the woman?
| A．To change his current plan. |
| B．To correct a mistake on his phone bill. |
| C．To get some information about different plans. |
| A．Later today. | B．Two weeks later. | C．The day after tomorrow. |
| A．Careless. | B．Patient. | C．Impolite. |
