Chicago festival season is here, but are you ready? Music festivals, film series, street fests, beer bashes – it’s a summer long party. So pull out your calendar, read our guide and start enjoying weekends.
♦Friday Art Markets at Daley Plaza
Select Fridays August 19 through September
Daley Plaza
Cost: Free
Directions: Nearly 75 artists will be showing their work in Daley Plaza, including jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, paintings, glass, wearables, wood and mixed media.
Website: http://www.FridayArtMarketsaDaleyPlaza php?sid=146320
♦Renegade Chicago Pop-Up
Sept. 9-10
Pilsen
Cost: Free
Directions: Get your hands on the goods at this outdoor celebration of all things handmade. Festivities include food trucks, DJ sets, craft brews, DIY workshops, photo ops and shopping.
Website: http://www.RenegadeChicagoPop-Up php?sid=146346
♦Millennium Park Summer Music Series
Select Mondays and Thursday June 12 through Aug. 21
Millennium Park
Cost: Free
Directions: Grab a blanket and some picnic snacks for a free outdoor concert in the park. The music series features a wide variety of music from top local, national and international artists.
Website: http://www.MillenniumParkSummerMusicSeries php?sid=146432
♦Northsider Craft Beer Fest
Sept 23
Uptown
Cost: $15 - $69
Directions: Spend a day on the green sampling beers and hard ciders （苹果汁）from breweries across the country, including Colorado, Michigan, California and Wisconsin – and let’s not forget those in our own home state, too.
Website: http://www.NorthsiderCraftBeerFest php?sid=146467
1.What can you buy when you visit Friday Art Markets at Daley Plaza?
A. Art works. B. Beers.
C. Picnic snacks. D. Fruit juice.
2.In which festival do people have to pay?
A. Friday Art Markets at Daley Plaza. B. Renegade Chicago Pop-Up.
C. Millennium Park Summer Music Series. D. Northsider Craft Beer Fest.
3.Which of the following lasts more than two months?
A. Friday Art Markets at Daley Plaza. B. Renegade Chicago Pop-Up.
C. Millennium Park Summer Music Serie. D. Northsider Craft Beer Fest.
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Growing up in the mountainous Sierra de Penamayor, in Asturias, northen Spain, Aladino Montes had been shooting deer ever since he was a child, but his life as a hunter came to an abrupt end 10 years ago, when he met Bambi, an adorable deer that has remained by his side ever since. Aladino has never shot an animal since.
53-year-old Aladino recalls driving through the mountains in his little jeep, ten years ago, when he saw a couple of cows being followed by a skinny little deer. Deer don’t usually hang out with cows, so he approached the animals for a closer look. That’s when he noticed that the deer had several wounds and would have probably died without proper medical care. He put the injured animal in his car and drove back to his house when he nursed it back to health. But instead of running back towards the forests, the deer stayed by Aladino’s side. They’ve been best friends ever since.
He always loved animals, but his father had taught him to hunt deer as a child. He did it for food, not sports, but ever since he adopted Bambi, he hasn’t shot a single animal.
Aladino’s cabin sits at 1,140 meters above sea level, offering tourists a beautiful view of the surrounding mountainside. On clear days, one can see all of central Asturias all the way to Gijon, but most people don’t travel to Les Praeres for the view, they come to see Bambi, the friendly deer.
Sometimes, Bambi will elk straight into the bar in search of Aladino and leave everyone with their mouth open, or even let people pet her. But she’s always most comfortable at the side of her rescuer. She’s so relaxed around him that she makes other deer feel safe as well.
1.What does the underlined word “abrupt” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Quick. B. Happy.
C. Sudden. D. Slow.
2.What made Aladino give up hunting?
A. The kind cows. B. His kind-hearted nature.
C. The deer’s bad conditions. D. His rescue of the wounded deer.
3.What do you know about the little deer Bambi now?
A. It is a tourist attraction. B. It is doing nothing.
C. It is a symbol of friendship. D. It is living under the natural state.
4.What does the deer Bambi like to do best?
A. Go to the bar. B. Stay around Aladino.
C. Let people pet her. D. Attract other deer to some near.
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Sue Hendrickson is a self-taught fossil（化石）hunter. As a kid, Sue Hendrickson often walked with her head down. “People said, ‘Look up. Smile!” she says. “Now, I realize I was born to look for things and just didn’t know it.”
Sue Hendrickson does more than look—she finds valuable things: Shipwrecks（沉船）with treasure, ancient sunken cities, and in 1990, she found Sue, the world’s largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex（霸王龙）. Is Hendrickson lucky? Well, maybe. But she also knows how to look.
“I limit the area where I’m going to look,” she says. No one knew the location of the sunken ship San Diego in the Philippines. For a year, Hendrickson and other researchers searched papers and sailors’ diaries. “The descriptions of the ship’s sailors led us to the wreck,” she says. The team also used a tool that can respond to metal. This tool found the San Diego. All the work paid off. The 400-year-old ship was complete, with valuable gold and silver coins.
To find the dinosaur she calls “the biggest animal that ever walked on earth,” Hendrickson started with maps made to search for oil. What Hendrickson found was the largest and most complete T-rex found to date. The T-rex is 42 feet long with 200 bones! Because it is so complete, scientists were able to infer that Sue walked at about 6 miles per hour and did not run faster than 15 miles an hour. Before Sue was discovered, they thought T-rex was much faster. To learn more about T-rex Sue, go to the Field Museum in Chicago.
There’s plenty left to be found, Hendrickson says, including answers to mysterious such as how T-rex lived. “I tell kids that they need to grow up and work them out because all of us old persons haven’t yet!”
1.What’s Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. An ancient city. B. Hendrickson’s hobby.
C. The world’s largest T-rex. D. Hendrickson’s great findings.
2.How did Hendrickson find the sunken ship San Diego?
A. With a self made tool. B. By starting with research.
C. By following sailor’s lead. D. With the help of oil maps.
3.What can we learn about T-rex Sue?
A. It helped scientists learn new things about T-rex.
B. It ran faster than any other T-rex.
C. It let people know how T-rex lived.
D. It was the biggest dinosaur.
4.What does Hendrickson advise kids to do?
A. Find more details. B. Explore mysteries.
C. Visit the Field Museum. D. Respect scientific research.
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For more than fifty years, a worker was forced to sit on the back of a truck and slowly drop plastic barriers（障碍）
to set out lanes（车道）on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Every day, their direction changes to control the traffic, meaning an employee had to go through the difficult task every twenty-four hours.
But a new piece of machinery means the work can be completed in a matter of minutes. A new “zipper truck” has been introduced. The vehicle lays and moves a lane barrier as it drives over the bridge. Last weekend, the bridge was closed so the new safety barrier, designed to reduce the dangers of head-on crashes, could be set up.
For the longest period in its nearly eighty-year history, the bridge was closed early Saturday to all but walkers, cyclists and buses to set up the barriers on the 1.7-mile bridge. A survivor of a 2008 head-on crash on the bridge spoke Sunday from a wheelchair to help introduce the new barrier, made of steel-clad concrete（铜包混凝土）blocks that can move across the bridge’s six lanes to meet traffic needs.
Gr. Grace Dammann pushed for a safer barrier since becoming unable to walk after the accident. She said she decided to drive near the middle of the bridge, which was called the “suicide（自杀）lane”, because she and her daughter were running late. Brian Clark, who was driving in the opposite direction, had just learned his father had cancer. “He suddenly lost control of the wheel, crossed over and hit my car,” Dammann said.
She said she and Clark became friends as they persuaded（说服）the government to use the MYM30 million barrier. “I am so thankful,” said Dammann, who came to the ceremony with Clark.
“Clark and I thank you.”
1.What is the zipper truck for?
A. Building bridges. B. Repairing the road.
C. Carrying plastic barriers. D. Setting up safe lane barriers.
2.What can we infer about the Golden Gate Bridge?
A. It is being repaired now. B. It is a bridge with eight lanes.
C. It had very dangerous lanes before. D. It is too old to be used at the moment.
3.What do we learn about Dammann and Clark?
A. They organized the ceremony. B. They are both government officials.
C. They designed the new zipper truck. D. They were in favor of the new barrier.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. A worker on the Golden Gate Bridge. B. A great bridge in San Francisco.
C. A new safer barrier system. D. A serious traffic accident.
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The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger, a kind of round sandwich of cooked beef. 1. At fast food restaurants, people order their food, wait a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. At some fast food restaurants, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars.
2. Most of them sell hamburgers, French fries and milkshakes, which are traditionally popular foods among Americans. In addition, there are many fast food restaurants that serve Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice cream.
The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one. Fast food restaurants are popular. 3.
First, they are not formal restaurants. Customers wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. 4. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone else prepares it. In fast food restaurants the food is usually ready before the customer even orders it. Finally, most food in a fast food restaurant is not expensive. 5. However, they may not be able to afford a more traditional and more expensive restaurant very often.
A. Second, they are fast.
B. Chinese diets are also welcome.
C. In fact, they reflect American life style.
D. They will go to a good restaurant for important guests.
E. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant.
F. Therefore, people can afford to eat at a fast food restaurant often.
G. There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States.
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On my way back home I was stopped at a traffic light by some people who asked for help. A woman ________ to give way to an ambulance, but drove her car over stony obstacles （阻碍）that ________ the bike line from the street, and had her car ________ as a result. She couldn’t move the car in any direction without ________ it. A couple of people tried to lift the car back but the obstacles were too ________. Seeing that they couldn’t do much about it, they ________ and the woman in the car tried to call for some ________.
While watching the other people leave, I ________ the woman would be on her own and I imagined how ________ that would be if I were in her shoes. After some talking, she ________ me to sit inside her car. She called for help and was ________ that it would take about 45 minutes for someone to get there.
I tried to comfort the woman who seemed to feel ________ about causing others trouble. But ________ it wasn’t too much trouble since they could ________ pass, and also there wasn’t anything she could do about it anyway. We laughed and joked that all we ________ was some tea for our chat.
Finally ________ came and helped her back on the street. She thanked me and ________ my phone number so she could return the ________, but I told her it was okay. She seemed to feel much ________ when we said our goodbyes. I believe that not having to face a difficult ________ alone can make a lot of a difference.
1.A. disliked B. determined C. tried D. preferred
2.A. protected B. separated C. ruined D. decorated
3.A. trapped B. lost C. repaired D. stopped
4.A. changing B. throwing C. moving D. damaging
5.A. high B. hard C. broad D. distant
6.A. bargained B. escaped C. apologized D. left
7.A. service B. tip C. survey D. request
8.A. admitted B. realized C. confirmed D. doubted
9.A. fancy B. unfair C. painful D. useless
10.A. commanded B. invited C. encouraged D. forced
11.A. warned B. told C. promised D. reminded
12.A. amazed B. frightened C. puzzled D. worried
13.A. exactly B. finally C. actually D. sincerely
14.A. ever B. even C. still D. never
15.A. needed B. ignored C. deserved D. selected
16.A. transport B. dusk C. luck D. help
17.A. cared about B. turned to C. asked for D. stared at
18.A. kindness B. item C. fare D. guidance
19.A. worse B. better C. calmer D. braver
20.A. disadvantage B. disaster C. danger D. situation
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
I don’t very often have a full day off work. Today I did. I had a leisurely morning, going to the gym, 1. (walk) the dog, feeding my friend’s cat, and thought I would hurry into the office at Job number 2, to fill in my time sheet so I would 2. (pay) for the hours I have worked. I was thinking that I had worked less hours because the lady I share job with was working instead 3. me. I prayed then, that somehow we would have 4. (much) money coming in this month and imagined money coming in to my bank account.
I arrived at the office to see the main secretary looking very pale. She asked what my afternoon 5. (plan) were, when I said I had the afternoon free she asked me 6. I could work for her, as she had really hurt her back. I was really looking forward to a day off, but she looked in such pain that I said yes straight away. She did a quick handover of what 7. (be) urgent and needed to be done.
I raced home and got 8. (change) into work appropriate clothes and took over. Our boss phoned and thanked me for stepping in so that everything went 9. (smooth). The unwell person went home, and I got four hours extra pay. It’s amazing how 10. universe works.
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书面表达
假如你是李华，在丹麦访学的一周里，住在Anne家里，现在即将回国。请你给她写一封感谢信，要点如下：
1. 简述你的丹麦之行; 2. 感谢她为你所做的一切; 3. 向她发出邀请。
参考词汇：Denmark 丹麦
注意：1. 适当增加情节，以使行文连贯；
2. 词数100 字左右。
Dear Anne,
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
All the best wishes.
Yours
Li Hua
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What does the man offer to do for the woman?
A. Give her a lift. B. Lend her his car. C. Show her the directions.
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Why can’t the woman take the girls to school today?
A. She doesn’t feel well. B. She can’t handle them. C. She has to get to office early.
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Where is the man probably going?
A. The airport. B. The post office. C. The market.
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What is the girl interested in?
A. Banking. B. Painting. C. Writing.
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（题文）What can’t the woman stand?
A. The man’s bad habit. B. The noisy music. C. The food.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.Why does the man make the call?
A. To confirm something. B. To make an appointment. C. To book a flight ticket.
2.What does the woman promise to do?
A. Write a paper. B. Call the man back. C. Give Mr. Brown the message.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.How does the man plan to go to New York?
A. By train. B. By air. C. By coach.
2.What kind of ticket does the man want?
A. A return ticket. B. A single ticket. C. A first-class ticket.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Mother and son.
2.What excuse does the boy make?
A. He can’t find his exercise book. B. He didn’t feel well yesterday.
C. He left his book on the bus.
3.How does the woman feel?
A. Surprised. B. Satisfied. C. Annoyed.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.How does the man find basketball match?
A. Violent. B. Exciting. C. Boring.
2.What is the score now?
A. 10: 2. B. 12: 10. C. 12:12.
3.What will the woman bring the man?
A. A cup of coffee. B. A beer. C. Some popcorn.
4.Who has a great shot?
A. Johnson. B. Andrew. C. Jane.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.How does the speaker get the information?
A. From a lecture. B. From a magazine. C. From a research.
2.Which country is the most expensive one for overseas students?
A. China. B. Australia. C. The United States.
3.Which country ranks third on the list?
A. The UK. B. Japan. C. Italy.
4.What is the average cost of overseas students in Hong Kong per year?
A. About US $35,000. B. About US $30,000. C. About US $22,000.
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假设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、删除或修改。
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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
A shop owner told me a story, that moved people in the neighborhood deep. One day, a hungry homeless dog came and the owner gave it up some food to eat. To his surprise, it comes to his shop whenever he opens a door. The owner has gradually realized that it doesn’t come for food and repays him. Every day, it sits besides the goods outside the shop and acts for a guide. When customer come near, it barks to remind the owner come out to serve them. Thus, the dog has found a home and the owner had a faithful employee.
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