IPSWICH FESTIVAL 2018
April 12-22
FIESTA, FOOD, FUN&FLA VOURS!
Join us for an impressive evening of live music, dance, and activities for people of all ages.
Be entertained by foreign Belly Dancers, traditional South Pacific Island Fire Dancers and energetic Bollywood Dancers.
Main stage entertainment includes the beautiful singing of a Celtic band, the African rhythm of Joe Tee and Afrodisa, and the infectious Latin party experience of Izalco.
DATE: Friday 20 April
LOCATION: Queens Park, Goleby Avenue, Ipswich Central
FESTIVAL GALA
Ipswich City Symphony (交响乐团) delivers an unforgettable show of music and songs from the great musicals.
Internationally well-known singer Silvie Paladino sings for the first time with Ipswich City Symphony and we welcome back one of the world’s leading bass (男低音) singers, David Hibbard, and the award-winning singer, Tim McCallum.
DATE: Saturday 21 April
LOCATION: Ipswich Civic Centre, Nicholas Street, Ipswich Central
JAZZ, WINE& BLUES
Take a chair and sit back to enjoy fine wines, delicious food and an exciting line-up of both local and nationally known jazz and blues artists.
This event features the dynamic rhythms of Australia’s long-standing touring bands, Joe Camilleri and the Black Sorrows, the award-winning Elly Hoyt, Devils Kiosk and the Ipswich City Big Band.
DATE: Saturday 21 April
LOCATION: Brisbane Street, Top of Town, Ipswich Central
IPSWICH ART AWARDS
The Ipswich Art Awards is a major art exhibition. Over 200 artwork entries in a range of artwork categories from photography, painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking will be on display, with all of the artworks available for purchase during the exhibition.
DATE: 12 April to 22 April
LOCATION: Ipswich Art Gallery, d’Arcy Doyle Place. Nicholas Street, Ipswich Central
1.On which day can you watch different types of dancing?
A.12 April. B.20 April.
C.21 April. D.22 April.
2.If you are a fan of Silvie Paladino, which event would you go to?
A.FESTIVAL GALA.
B.JAZZ, WINE& BlUES.
C.IPSWICH ART AWARDS.
D.FIESTA, FOOD, &FUN FLAVOURS!
3.Where should you go to buy some artworks?
A.Queens Park.
B.Brisbane Street.
C.Ipswich Art Gallery.
D.Ipswich Civic Centre.
假定你是李华，你校将举办音乐节。请写封邮件邀请你的英国朋友Allen参加，内容包括：
1. 时间；
2. 活动安排；
3. 欢迎他表演节目。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文，文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删改或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
It was Monday morning, and the writing class had just begin. Everyone was silent, wait to see who would be called upon to read his and her paragraph aloud. Some of us were confident and eager take part in the class activity, others were nervous and anxious. I had done myself homework but I was shy. I was afraid that to speak in front of a larger group of people. At that moment, I remembered that my father once said, "The classroom is a place for learning and that include learning from textbooks, and mistake as well." Immediate, I raised my hand.
A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman. But _____ apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallagher and have a Canadian ________ .
Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their ________ ended and he did not want her ticket to ______ . The ticket had a strict no-transfer(不可转让) _______ , but since passport information was not required when _________ , any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can ______ it.
“I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to ______ a lot of joy,” said Axani. He posted his ______ on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the _______ passports, “More ______ , there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in ______ their name to Elizabeth Gallagher,” Axani said. “It was absolutely out of ______ , thousands of e-mails, people around the world _______ their stories of travel.”
Axani wrote in his post that he is not ______ anything in return and that the woman who uses the ______ticket can choose to either travel with him or _____ the ticket and travel on her own.
The _____ is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before _____ in Toronto on January 8. He said the ____ woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.
1.A.benefits B.deposits C.restrictions D.examinations
2.A.origin B.passport C.accent D.friend
3.A.holiday B.marriage C.dream D.relationship
4.A.go to waste B.come to mind C.go on sale D.come into effect
5.A.policy B.order C.payment D.schedule
6.A.applying B.booking C.checking D.bargaining
7.A.use B.borrow C.choose D.buy
8.A.sacrifice B.express C.experience D.provide
9.A.answer B.advice C.offer D.comment
10.A.same B.right C.now D.real
11.A.interesting B.annoying C.satisfying D.convincing
12.A.writing B.giving C.lending D.changing
13.A.touch B.question C.date D.control
14.A.admiring B.advertising C.sharing D.doubting
15.A.leaving B.looking for C.losing D.dealing with
16.A.simple B.strange C.regular D.extra
17.A.return B.take C.reserve D.hide
18.A.interview B.program C.trip D.meeting
19.A.ending B.calling C.repeating D.staying
20.A.honored B.lovely C.intelligent D.lucky
Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.
1.We dance from Florida to Alaska, from north to south and sea to sea. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties and just to fill the time.
“I adore dancing,” says Lester Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in Iowa. “I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.” Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. “Teaching dance is wonderful. 2.It’s great to watch them. For many of them, it’s a way of meeting people and having a social life.”
3.“I can tell you about one young couple,” says Bridges. “They’re learning to do traditional dances. They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile. 4.”
So, do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better, calmer, healthier? Andrea Hillier says, “Dance, like the pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to get better and better.5. I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me I’m alive.”
A.So why do we dance?
B.Dance in the U.S. is everywhere.
C.If you like dancing outdoors, come to America.
D.My older students say it makes them feel young.
E.I keep practicing even when I’m extremely tired.
F.Dancing seems to change their feeling completely.
G.They stayed up all night long singing and dancing.
Monkeys seem to have a way with numbers.
A team of researchers trained three Rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward. The researchers then tested how the monkeys combined—or added—the symbols to get the reward.
Here’s how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment: In their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens. On one part of the screen, a symbol would appear, and on the other side two symbols inside a circle were shown. For example, the number 7 would flash on one side of the screen and the other end would have 9 and 8. If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.
After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.
When the team examined the results of the experiment more closely, they noticed that the monkeys tended to underestimate(低估) a sum compared with a single symbol when the two were close in value—sometimes choosing, for example, a 13 over the sum of 8 and 6. The underestimation was systematic: When adding two numbers, the monkeys always paid attention to the larger of the two, and then added only a fraction(小部分) of the smaller number to it.
“This indicates that there is a certain way quantity is represented in their brains, ”Dr. Livingstone says. “But in this experiment what they’re doing is paying more attention to the big number than the little one.”
1.What did the researchers do to the monkeys before testing them?
A.They fed them. B.They named them.
C.They trained them. D.They measured them.
2.How did the monkeys get their reward in the experiment?
A.By drawing a circle. B.By touching a screen.
C.By watching videos. D.By mixing two drinks.
3.What did Livingstone’s team find about the monkeys?
A.They could perform basic addition. B.They could understand simple words.
C.They could memorize numbers easily. D.They could hold their attention for long.
4.In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?
A.Entertainment. B.Health. C.Education. D.Science.
