The Festival of Cultures

August 11 14

City Park

The Festival of Cultures is an annual event to celebrate the wide range of cultures found in our great state. People representing 40 cultural groups will share their traditions and customs. Here are just a few of the festival’s many activities.

Crafts: See the fine art of basket weaving from Vietnam and Zimbabewe. Watch the delicate art of making paper umbrellas from Thailand and the decorative craft of paperl picado, or paper cutting, from Mexico. All craft demonstrations provide a firsthand view of how things are made. You will appreciate the process involved in making these products.

Music and Dance: Experience musical instruments that you have never heard before. Listening to the music of a sho from Japan, a bull-roarer from Australia, a sitar from India, and a chakay from Tailand. You will also be entertained by folk dances from around the world, such as the troika from Russia and the mayim mayim from Israel. From 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. on August 14, special folk-dancing classes for children will be offered. Children ranging in age from 6 8 can learn the kinderpolka from Germany. Children ranging in age from 9 12 can learn the raspa from Mexico.

Storytelling: Listen for hours as professional storytellers charm you with captivating tales. Fables, folktales, and ballads from various countries will be told. By popular demand, Gwendolyn Washington, a famous African American storyteller, is back.

Food: Enjoy irresistible foods from other countries, such as gyros from Greece, seafood paella from Spain, crepes from France, and tandoori chicken from India. These tasty dishes will be difficult to pass up.

Tickets August 11 - 13

Adults            $3

Ages 13 18       $2

Ages 6 12        $ 1

Ages 6 and under    Free

 

Tickets August 14

Adults            $3

Ages 13 18       $2

Ages 12 and under    Free

 

 

The festival of Cultures is sponsored by the World Marketplace, For more information about the festival, call (800) 555 0199.

 

64.Which of the following are from Mexico?

      A.The paper cutting and troika.                 B.The kinderpolka and sitar.

       C.The paperl picado and the raspo.           D.The mayim mayim and the gyros.

65.A family with two children at the age of 8 and 16 are going to the festival on August 12. How much money will they pay    for the festival?

       A.$5.                     B.$6.                      C.$8.                     D.$9.

66.What do we know about the festival?

       A.Children will have a chance to learn different folk-dancing.

       B.Storyteller Gwendolyn is invited to the festival for the first time.

       C.People will be offered opportunities to play musical instruments.

       D.Visitors can make paper umbrellas from their first- hand experience.

67.What’s the purpose of writing this passage?

       A.To advertise for the World Marketplace.

       B.To introduce a wide range of cultural traditions.

       C.To explain the great significance of popularizing the festival.

       D.To persuade readers to attend the festival held in the City Park.

Lindsay Morgan Lohan was born on July 2, 1986. She was such a natural beauty that she began modeling at the age of 3, and because of her natural talent, she played parts in over 60 TV commercials for companies such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Wendy's, the Gap, Pizza Hut, Calvin Klein, and Jell-O, in which she shared the screen with Bill Cosby.

When she was 7, Lohan was required to dress up as garbage for a Halloween short play on the Late Show with David Letterman called “Things You Find on the Bottom of the Subway.” It was her first real acting job. In 1996, Lohan got her second big break when she was given a role on the long-running NBC soap opera “Another World.” For only one season, she became the third actress to act the part Alexandra Alli Fowler.

Shortly after, she hit the highway to fame when Disney sought to remake the hugely successful family comedy “The Parent Trap” (1998). In addition, she also got a three-picture deal with Disney thanks to this movie. Her next move was to appear in the Wonderful World of Disney production of “Life-Size” (2000), a comedy also featuring supermodel Tyra Banks.

In 2003, along with Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan performed in Freaky Friday and played one of the early roles that made Jodie Foster a household name.

In September 2002, Lohan also got a contract with music heavyweight Emilio Estefan Jr who is of great influence in music. She signed a five-album deal with Estefan Enterprises. In 2005, she released her first album, “Speak,” followed by “A Little More Personal” the next year.

 

56. Which of the following is NOT the job that Lohan has done until now?

A. A singer.         B. An actress.       C. A model.        D. A dancer.

57. The underlined word “break” in Paragraph 1 probably means “__________”.

A. a rest between periods of work or study        

B. luck that leads to further success

C. an end which is put to progress               

D. separation in two parts because of force

58. From the forth paragraph we can infer that Lohan __________after she played the family comedy “The Parent Trap”.

A. became more and more famous                  B. was driving on the highway quickly

C. had a car accident on the highway              D. was hit by people on the highway

59. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Lohan has played three films produced by Disney.

B. Lohan played the part Bill Cosby in a TV show.

C. Lohan has released two albums since 2005. 

D. Lohan was greatly influenced by Emilio Estefan Jr.

    Botany, the study of plants, plays a strange role in the history of human knowledge.  For many thousands of years it was one field about which humans had little knowledge.  It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of pre - industrial societies that still exists, a detailed learning of plants and their properties(特性) must be extremely ancient.  This is reasonable.  Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants.  They have always been enormously important to the good of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, medicines, housing, and a great many other purposes.  Tribes living today in the woods of the Amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of each.  To them botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of “knowledge” at all.

Unfortunately, the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct relation with plants, and the less clear our knowledge of botany grows.  Yet everyone comes unconsciously on a surprising amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid.  When our New Stone Age ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer production the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken.  Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: planted crops.  From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and close relations with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.

 

64. What does “Botany” in paragraph 1 refer to ?

       A. plants             B. agriculture            C. human knowledge                D. the study of plants

65. Which of the following assumptions(假设)about early humans is expressed in the passage?

     A.  They probably had wide knowledge of plants.

     B.  They clearly divided knowledge into separate fields

     C.  They did not enjoy the study of botany.

     D.  They placed great importance on ownership of property.

66. According to the passage, why has general knowledge of botany decreased?

     A. People no longer value plants as a useful resource.

     B. Botany is not recognized as a special branch of science.

     C. Research is unable to keep up with the increasing number of plants.

     D. Direct relation with a variety of plants has decreased.

67. According to the passage, what was the first great step toward the practice of agriculture?

     A. The invention of agriculture tools and machines.

     B. The development of a system of names for plants.

     C. The discovery of grasses that could be harvested and replanted.

     D. The changing food of early humans.

       For millions of people, the American dream of owning a home seems to be slipping out of reach.

    “Maybe young couples can no longer afford to buy a ready-made house as their parents did,’’ says 40-year-old building instructor Pat Hennin. “But they can still have a home. Like their pioneer ancestors, they can build it themselves, and at less than half the cost of a ready-made house.”

    The owner-builders came from every occupational group, although surprisingly few are professional building workers. Many take the plunge with little or no experience. “I learned how to build my house from reading books,” says John Brown, who built a six-room home for $25, 000 in High Falls, New Jersey. “If you have patience and the carpentry(木匠)skill to make a bookcase, you can build a house.” An astonishing 50 percent of these owner builders hammer every nail, 1ay every pipe, and wire every switch with their own hands. The rest contract(承包)for some parts of the task. But even those who just act as contractors and finish the insides of their homes can save from 30 percent to 45 percent of what a ready-made home would cost.

    One survey revealed that 60 percent of owner-builders also design their homes. Many others buy commercial house plans for less than $100 or use plans available from the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

 

56.What does the passage mainly tell us?

       A.The cost of having a house built.

       B.The American dream of owning a house.

       C.The life of owner-builders in America.

       D.A comparison between young couples and their parents.

57.It can be inferred from the passage that many Americans find it difficult to         .

    A.build a house                                       B.find a ready-made house

    C.have a good job                                   D.buy a house

58.The underlined phrase “take the plunge” in paragraph 3 most probably means “         .”

    A.decide to build a house                             B.decide to pull down a house

    C.decide to buy a house                              D.decide to rent a house

59.From the passage we learn that           .

    A.Many house plans are offered free of charge.

    B.Most of the house plans are offered by building instructors.

    C.Most of the owner-builders design their homes.

    D.Fifty percent of the American young couples build houses.

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