The UK's music festivals are world famous but there are plenty more to celebrate in the country.
Burns Night, Scotland
On 25 January, Scots celebrate the life and works of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns by holding a special Burns Supper. This can be a chance for friends to get together with a huge formal dinner. Guests take it in turn to recite Burns' poems or sing one of his songs.
Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales
For 10 days each May, the small town of Hay on-Wye on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales is filled with writers, filmmakers, musicians, and people who come to hear them talk and exchange ideas. The festival celebrates great writing of all genres (体裁) and it all takes place in a village in the town.
Camp Festival, Dorset
As a branch of a festival held in Dorset, it's one of the best family festivals in the UK Held every year in the grounds of the historic Lulworth Castle in Dorset, the festival includes top live music acts, but as the organizer say, “kids are king” at Camp Festival, with a wide variety of entertainment, workshops and fun for kids. The 2020 Camp Festival takes place from 25 to 28 July.
Guy Fawkes Day or “Bonfire Night”
All over the UK on 5 November, the British light bonfires and set off fireworks in their back gardens or, more commonly these days, at organized events in public parks. They celebrate the Catholic Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament (议会院) on 5 November, 1605.
1.Which festivals are related to literature (文学)?
A.Hay Festival and Camp Festival. B.Bums Night and Hay Festival.
C.Burs Night and Guy Fawkes Day. D.Camp Festival and Guy Fawkes Day.
2.When does the festival most attractive to children take place?
A.In July. B.In May. C.In January. D.In November.
3.What does Guy Fawkes Day celebrate?
A.An impressive building. B.A successful adventure.
C.An organized game. D.A historical event.
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
While driving, I sensed something wrong with my car. Pulling into the first parking lot I found, I stopped it and climbed out to assess the situation. My heart sank as I discovered that one of my rear（后面的）tires was flat.
I’d bought the secondhand car several months before, but it didn’t include a spare tire. Although I knew I needed to purchase one, my schedule was so tight that I hadn’t done it yet. Because I was working full-time in the emergency room at a local hospital and taking evening classes at a university fifty miles away.
Now here I was, alone forty miles from home. In those days, cell phones were a luxury. I had no way to call for assistance.
My spirits grew darker the minute I checked the place where I had pulled over. No one was around, except a rusty, red truck. It was getting dark. I had two options：stay in my car until morning or start walking in hopes of finding a convenience store with a pay phone. Neither option appealed to me.
I was about to grab my purse and set off on foot when a man came out from what seemed to be a law office. Pulling a set of keys from his pocket，he locked the office door，and then turned and saw me standing next to my car. I must have looked scared and confused as he headed straight toward me.
“Can 1 help you with anything?” he asked.
Judging from his appearance, I decided I could trust him.
“I have a flat tire but don’t have a spare,” I said, relieved to see him.
“I can help you remove the flat and then drive you to a tire shop to get it fixed,” he said.
I remembered the cautionary（告诫的）words my parents had drilled into my head：Never get in a car with a stranger.
“That’s okay,” I said. “Thanks anyway.”
假定你是学校英语俱乐部主席李华，你校要举办一场文艺演出，需要两个英语节目。请你写一个通知，征集节目，内容包括
1.节目形式（英文歌曲或者英文短剧）；
2.提供详细计划；
3.报名方式和截止时间。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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When I was a young girl，my mother made the same dish for supper five nights a week. She boiled potatoes，carrots, and________small amounts of the roast beef. She called it stew(炖菜).
I would often hear other children at school________about the delicious meals they had for________. Many of them ate in fast food restaurants, which were popular and expensive at the time. They got hamburgers and fries. I________we could eat like that once in a while，but my parents couldn’t________it. We only had takeout(外卖)food once or twice a year.
My mom took the________to cut up and prepare those________every single night. Her recipes were right-focusing on the vegetables but not on the________.
I had________head colds and flus than my classmates. If I did get________, I’d be home for a day or two, not a whole week like many of them.
When I was in my thirties, I became ill and was diagnosed with high blood pressure. I have to________I had been eating a lot of fast food,________not getting it as a child. But when went back to preparing home-made meals, I started to feel________.
Today I often find myself________a bowl of my mother’s stew. That stew was made with love and it has left me with a(n)________that will warm me forever.
1.A.effectively B.occasionally C.originally D.eventually
2.A.complain B.argue C.talk D.dream
3.A.holiday B.breakfast C.lunch D.supper
4.A.promised B.wished C.cried D.announced
5.A.afford B.tolerate C.resist D.accept
6.A.risk B.rice C.turn D.time
7.A.sandwiches B.stand C.vegetables D.eggs
8.A.meat B.milk C.hamburgers D.pizzas
9.A.heavier B.fewer C.worse D.more
10.A.ready B.sick C.poor D.greedy
11.A.deny B.hide C.cheat D.admit
12.A.getting down to B.holding on to C.making up for D.keeping up with
13.A.hungrier B.busier C.happier D.healthier
14.A.desiring B.thinking C.preparing D.making
15.A.experience B.truth C.memory D.manner
How to Live Well
At a certain point in life, thoughts may come up. How well have you lived?1.How well have you treated those you love and care about? Most of all, however, time seems to slip on without too much self-reflection. Maybe it’s time to slow down and think about what it means to live well.
To live means acting.2.You start action, come up with goals, make plans to help work on the desired outcome, and dive in. Not every action will immediately bring about a successful finish of the project, task or undertaking, but you learn from everything you do.
3.Being busy is an effective cure to loneliness, helps avoid depression and self-pity, and keeps us in a constant state of movement. Again, doing things often puts us in contact with others and that’s also a good thing for humans to make interaction with other humans.
But what happens when you don’t give a project or task your full effort? Are you still living well? Or are you shortchanging yourself, trying to cheat and still get the reward?4.Not only learn to face these, but also try to overcome them.
The truth is that everyone cuts corners now and then. Maybe it is because we lack time, energy, financial or other resources. Sometimes we have to make ends meet by shaving off an item or a step. That doesn’t mean we make a habit of it.5.
A.To live means you participate in life.
B.To have a good life doesn’t mean living well.
C.Keeping busy sometimes is important in life.
D.Sometimes you have to face these in your life.
E.How much have you achieved relative to your goals?
F.What can you do if you suffer from an illness?
G.That really means we should stop and think, in order to live better.
Health officials in the United States reported last week on what they believe could be a medical first. Officials said doctors performed what could be the first double lung transplant（移植）on a person whose lungs were severely damaged from vaping（吸电子烟）.The operation reportedly saved the life of the teenager.
The young man was admitted in early September to a Detroit-area hospital with what appeared to be a common lung infection, but was later sent to Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. On October 3, he was transported to Henry Ford Hospital, where the transplant was performed 12 days later.
Hassan Nemeh is a surgical director of thoracic（胸腔的）organ transplant at Henry Ford Hospital. He told The Associated Press（The AP）that the damage done to the teenager’s lungs from vaping was so bad that there was no possibility to totally recover. He warned parents to think about that and to tell their children as well.
More than 2000 Americans who vape have gotten sick since March. Many of them are teenagers and young adults. At least 40 people have died.
Recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a discovery into what might be causing people who vape to become sick. They identified the chemical compound vitamin E acetate（醋酸盐）as a “very strong criminal”.
Researchers found the chemical compound in fluid taken from the lungs of 29 patients. In other studies, Vitamin E acetate was found in liquid from electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices, Many who got sick said they had vaped liquids that contain THC, the part of marijuana that creates what is known as a “high”.
Dr. Lisa Allenspach is a lung specialist and medical director of Henry Ford’s Lung Transplant Program. She told The AP, “Vaping-related injuries are all too common these days. Our adolescents are faced with a crisis,” She added that vaping products should not be used in any way.
Dr. Nemeh said the 17-year-old patient’s case didn’t open any new moral considerations about transplants for people who severely damaged their own lungs by vaping. He added, “We hope sharing this patient’s story prevents anyone else from experiencing a vaping injury that would require a transplant.”
1.What can be learned about the young man in the text?
A.He got caught in a moral dilemma. B.He was the first to get sick by vaping.
C.He received the operation immediately. D.He had a good chance to survive the lung damage
2.How many hospitals are mentioned in the text?
A.1. B.2. C.3. D.4.
3.What is Dr. Lisa Allenspach’s attitude towards vaping products?
A.Skeptical. B.Approving. C.Opposing. D.Objective.
4.What can we learn from what Dr. Nemeh said？
A.He hoped to arouse people’s attention to staying away from vaping.
B.He wanted to raise money for the young man.
C.He wanted to open moral considerations about lung transplant.
D.He hoped to keep people from tobacco.
