Governors Ball

    One of the greatest summer concerts in New York City is Governor's Ball, which takes place in early June at Randall's Island Park. Some of the many artists playing include Tool, Phoenix, Lorde, Flume, and the Wu-Tang Clan.

    Date: June 2-4, 2019

    Location: New York City, New York, USA

    Music Type: Rock, hip-hop, pop

    Price: $105-$305

    Recommended places to stay in New York City:

    ·Super 8 Long Island City LGA Hotel

    ·Courtyard New York Manhattan/Upper East Side

    Primavera Sound

    To kick off the summer, there's no better place to be than Barcelona. On the concert lineup, you'll find bands like The Zombies, Arcade Fire, and Bon Iver. Then take some time to soak up the local food wine, and culture.

    Date: May 31-June 4, 2019

    Location: Barcelona, Spain

    Music Type: Indie, rock, hip-hop

    Price: 80€ - 300€ (around $86-$323)

    Recommended places to stay in Barcelona:

    ·Hotel 1898

    ·Hotel Barcelona Universal

    Bonnaroo

    Bonnaroo is another epic summer event that draws in crowds of around 60,000 each year. Some of the most iconic music legends will be playing this year, including U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weekend, and Chance the Rapper.

    Date: June 8-11, 2019

    Location: Manchester. Tennessee USA

    Music Type: Rock, hip-hop

    Price: $210.50-$554

    Recommended places to stay in Manchester:

    ·Country Inn & Suites Manchester

    ·The Ambassador Inn & Luxury

    I received a private message on Facebook. It began harmlessly enough: "Hey, girl. Wanted to invite you to join my next challenge group—we'll be focusing on fitting in 30 minutes of exercise and balanced nutrition."

    It was all becoming too much. Facebook was running my life, not me.

    But what killed Facebook for me was when I posted a photo, and five minutes later my son asked me how many "likes" it had got. His question was a wake-up call.

    "Likes" are signs of acceptance and approval. I had forgotten that acceptance and approval need to come from within and had unknowingly set him a bad example.

    Before Facebook, surfing the internet was an occasional distraction and I spent a lot more time reading books and magazines. I checked in with friends through texts, emails and phone calls.

    To recreate the simplicity of those days and set a healthier example to my son, I deactivated my Facebook account.

    I'd been in the habit of checking Facebook many times a day, so I had to come up with some new habits. I carried a novel and a crossword puzzle book around with me. I rediscovered knitting. I started taking yoga classes.

    I started to remember a few things. My body is fine just the way it is. I have friends who will help me out when I'm in trouble, and I will help them out. I do my best to be a good mother, and our son is happy and healthy. We are very lucky to be able to afford two vacations a year.

    I stopped looking at the world through my cellphone. I felt completely present in the moment.

    The break left me feeling better about myself, my family, my home and my life.

    After a few weeks, I returned to Facebook. Now I look at the photos of my friends' kids growing up and treasure how social media allows me to keep in touch with family far and wide. I look in on a daily basis, but no longer with the desire constantly to post updates.

    It is not an addiction any more.

    Recently, Whitewater Middle School students in the US looked at 200 pounds (90.7kg) of food. Their classmates threw it away after a meal in the cafeteria.

    They found the remains of pizzas. They saw untouched green salads and pieces of bread bitten only once.

    It was, they said, both disgusting and educational.

    "You don't realize how much food waste you're making till you see it," said student Cody Gist.

    To deal with this problem, Whitewater added environmental science as a school-wide program this year. Teachers are guiding their students through research on the ways food is linked to environment, poverty, and people's health.

    The school changed to compostable (可用作堆肥的) paper trays (托盘) as well. Working with Every Tray Counts, a US nonprofit group, the school hopes for a change from disposable (一次性的) trays to compostable paper trays.

    This isn't just an exercise at school. Whitewater is joining a network of schools, business and neighborhoods. They try to make composting as mainstream as recycling.

    "The larger issue is protection of landfill space," said Laurette Hall, an environmental management official. The area has enough space to last for maybe 25 more years, she said "That isn't as much as it sounds in such a rapidly growing area."

    Principal Beth Thompson said students advise each other on new ways to deal with trash.

    "Students understand why it matters so not one student refused to do extra work when throwing away their waste," Thompson said.

    Whitewater teachers make sure students know how their own eating habits are part of bigger problems. In environmental literature class, students read books such as Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.

    Mollie Lyman works with several language arts classrooms. Their classes discuss such issues as how poor neighborhoods often have less access to healthy food.

    Lyman says she wants students to ask some basic questions: "What do we eat? What do we waste?"

    Have you ever heard someone say, "you totally look like you're a Jessica" or something similar? People seem to think that they know what kind of person a "Jessica" or a "Michael" looks like. Why is this?

    According to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, humans tend to associate people's names with their appearance, and can even guess someone's name based on how they look.

    Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, collected thousands of photos of people's faces. They labeled each photo with four names. Then, they asked volunteers to guess which of the four names was correct.

    The volunteers were able to guess the right name 38 percent of the time. It seems that certain characteristics of faces give them clues about someone's name  Reader's Digest reported.

    However, this only worked when the volunteers looked at names from their own culture. In addition, the volunteers were not as good at guessing the real names of people who used nicknames more often than their real names. This may show that a person's appearance is affected by their name only if they use it often.

    This kind of face-name matching happens "because of a process of self-fulfilling prophecy (自我实现预言), as we become what other people expect us to become." Ruth Mayo from the university told science news website EurekAlert.

    Earlier studies have shown that gender and race stereotypes (刻板印象) can affect a person's appearance. The researchers believe there are also similar stereotypes about names. For example, people tend to think that men named Bob should have rounder faces because the word itself looks round. People may think that women named Rose are beautiful. They expect them to be "delicate" and "feminine(女性的)", just like the flower they are named for.

    Flying to another country can sometimes take several days. But the designer of a futuristic jet (喷气式飞机) says his plane could take you around the world in your lunch break.

    According to an article in The Sun, the plane, called the Antipode, could carry 10 people and use rocket boosters to go 12 km high.  Or it could fly from New York to Shanghai in 24 minutes.

    An ordinary Boeing 747 has a top speed of 917 km/h. The fastest plane in the world right now is Air Force One. It carries the president of the United States and can reach 1,092 km/h.

    Canadian designer Charles Bombardier says his plane could be 10 times faster than the Concorde, which could fly at 2,180 km/h. The Concorde was the world's fastest passenger plane between 1976 and 2003. But the Concorde was very noisy and its nose got dangerously hot when it flew. A Concorde crashed in 2000, killing 114 people.

     It stops the plane from overheating and having the same problems that the Concorde did. New technology, recently tested by NASA, makes the Antipode the perfect shape and weight to fly fast and safely.

    "It's always something that people would like a transportation system that could take you from one place on the planet to the other side," Mr. Bombardier told the BBC.

     The design is just a concept and will need more research before it becomes a reality.

A. No Concordes were flown again after 2003.

B. There are huge differences between high-speed planes.

C. But the Antipode would probably reach a crazy 25,750 km/h!

D. Don't try to buy a ticket for the plane yet, though.

E. Then it could fly from London to New York in less than 20 minutes.

F. The superfast plane could only carry ten passengers.

G. The Antipode's design includes a special nose.

    Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength.

    Take, for example, the 1 of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo (柔道), although he had lost his left 2 in a car accident.

    The boy began 3 with an old judo teacher. The boy was doing well, but he couldn't understand why, after three 4, the teacher had taught him only one move.

    "Teacher," the boy 5 said, "Shouldn't I be learning more moves?" "This is the only move you'll ever 6 to know," the teacher replied.

    The boy didn't quite 7, but he believed in his teacher and kept 8.

    Several more months later, the teacher took the boy to his first tournament. The boy easily 9 his first two matches. The third match was a little 10, but after some time he used his one move to win the match.

    Still 11 by his success, the boy was now in the finals.

    This time, his opponent was bigger, 12, and more experienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be 13. The referee (裁判) was worried that the boy might get 14. He was about to stop the match when the boy's teacher said, "No, let him 15."

    Soon after the match started again, his opponent made a big 16: He dropped his guard. The boy quickly used his move to pin (压住) him. The boy had won the match and the tournament. He was the 17.

    On the way home, the boy asked his teacher: "Teacher, how could I win the tournament 18 only one move?"

    "You won for two 19," the teacher answered. "First, you've 20 one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. And second, the only defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm."

    A major fire on Monday, April 15, 2019, began to burn at France's world-famous Note-Dame de Paris cathedral (巴黎圣母院). Flames could be seen (rise) through the top of the monument,  tall, narrow spire(尖塔) later collapsed.

    The cathedral (date) back to the 12th century. French writer Victor Hugo used it as the setting of his famous story, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. It is one of the world's (famous) tourist sites, which receives about 12 million (visit) each year.

    The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo wrote on Twitter Monday, "A terrible fire is underway at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris." Hidalgo added that Paris firefighters were still trying (control) the fire. She urged people to stay away  the area.

    French President Emmanuel Macron delayed a (plan) speech to the nation because of the fire.  speech was to present his answers to the yellow vest crisis that has taken over the country since November. He arrived at the scene of the fire Monday night.

    The cause of the fire was not (immediate) known. France 2 television reported that police were treating it as accidental.

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：⒈每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

⒉只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

    How cool it is when a train runs through a building! Does this only happen in sci-fi movies? No, there has such a train in real life. Chongqing Rail Transit Line 2 passes through the 19-story building. The train stop takes up the sixth, seventh and eighth floor. The other apartments are normally.

    Chongqing is known for "Mountain City" in China. With so much mountains, people there try everything to save space and make them easier for traveling. The special station was designed in 1998, and opened the public in 2004. The building and the station are built at the same time. According to the designer Ye Tianyi, they used with special techniques to keep the noise very low. The station and trains don't disturb people's daily lives.

⒈时间和地点；

⒉活动的内容；

⒊活动的效果。

注意：

⒈词数100左右；

⒉可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇:

中国诗歌文化研讨会 the Forum on Chinese poetic Culture