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1、Unit 1Festivals around the worldSection Warming Up & ReadingPrereading.阅读理解AReading OktoberfestPalmer Park is the perfect place to host the first Reading Oktoberfest, which takes place 1518 September 2017.You can experience everything that makes Oktoberfest, held in a huge Beer tent. Well have live
2、music and DJs and thousands of people going crazy.Opening hours：Thursday 15 September 17：0023：30Friday 16 September 17：0023：30Saturday 17 September 12：3023：30Sunday 18 September 12：3019：00Ramsbottom FestivalWith its riverside location (位置), Ramsbottom Festival is one festival which can truly be call
3、ed beautiful. Here you can enjoy a mix of music, great arts and family shows, as well as a variety of Great British and international food.Ramsbottom Festival takes place 1618 September 2017 at Ramsbottom Cricket Club, Bury, easily reachable by public transport from Manchester city centre.The Willow
4、 Festival DorsetThe Willow Festivalthe worlds largest festival showing new and undiscovered live music bands and artists is coming to Dorset. Fun for all the family, the event also has a shopping area, a world food village, and plenty of activities for kids.Tickets are just 10.00, which covers a com
5、eandgo attendance(出席)for all three days.River Cottage FestivalIts our first ever familyfriendly music festival, right here at River Cottage HQ in Devon.On 1718 September 2017, the farm will be filled with live music from popular bands in the UK. In between all that dancing youll be able to watch sho
6、ws from local craftspeople (匠人) and make your own piece of jewelry.Tickets will cost you just 35, or 10 for children under 12 (babies under 2 go free)【文章大意】本文是应用文。文章是四个秋季音乐节活动的介绍。1What can visitors enjoy at Ramsbottom Festival?AFamily shows.BDancing on the farm.CMaking beautiful things by hand.DInte
7、rnational bands performances.解析：A细节理解题。根据Ramsbottom Festival部分中的Here you can enjoy a mix of music, great arts and family shows可知，在Ramsbottom Festival可以欣赏家庭表演。2Both The Willow Festival Dorset and River Cottage Festival _.Aare held in 2017 for the first timeBask visitors to pay the same priceCtake pla
8、ce near a riverDare familyfriendly解析：D细节理解题。根据The Willow Festival Dorset部分中的Fun for all the family以及River Cottage Festival部分中的Its our first ever familyfriendly music festival可知，这两个节日都是非常适合一家人参加的。3Which festival lasts the most days?ARiver Cottage Festival.BRamsbottom Festival.CReading Oktoberfest.DTh
9、e Willow Festival Dorset.解析：C细节理解题。对比文中的时间：Reading Oktoberfest：1518 September, Ramsbottom Festival: 1618 September, The Willow Festival Dorset: all three days和River Cottage Festival: 1718 September可知，Reading Oktoberfest是四个节日中持续天数最多的。B Luling, a small town in Texas, is home to a watermelon water towe
10、r, a watermelon queen and a festival called the Watermelon Thump.The event includes food, music and a parade. But what sets this watermelon festival apart from others is the World Championship Seed Spitting (吐西瓜籽) Contest.Only about 5,500 people live in Luling. But since 1954, the population has swe
11、lled on the last weekend in June. Now, tens of thousands of people come from all around to attend the fourday festival.“The seedspitting crowds get into it，” said Edgar Camacho, who is father to four seedspitting champions. “Parents from Luling take it seriously.”The competition is limited to about
12、50 kids and 50 adults. The kids are divided into four age groups. For the individual (个人的) competition, everyone gets two spits, and judges record the better one. For the team event, judges take the sum of four spits from four participants (参与者) “Its really fun and exciting，” said Victoria Camacho,
13、14. “The crowd is all watching you and cheering for you, and your family is there.” About 200 people watch. “Its really a lot of pressure because you dont want to mess up.”Victoria won her age group four years ago with a spit of 36 feet. Two years ago, her brother A. J， 17, broke the youth record in
14、 Luling when he spat a seed 58 feet 91/2 inches. Thats more than half the length of a basketball court. (The adult seedspitting world record, set in 1989, is 68 feet 91/8 inches.) “Its fun to come out and compete every year. Its just a really competitive spirit that all the families have，” said A. J
15、， who has won the seedspitting contest about 10 times.The Camachos have no plans to give up their competitive spitting anytime soon. “Even if I dont live in Texas，” said Davis Camacho, 20, a fivetime winner. “Ill make the yearly journey to Luling.”【文章大意】本文是一则新闻报道。美国德州的Luling小镇每年举办一次西瓜节，该节日的最特别之处在于其吐
16、西瓜籽比赛。4What does the underlined word “swelled” in Paragraph 3 mean?AIncreased.BDoubled.CRecovered. DDropped.解析：A词义猜测题。根据划线词前后句的对比：Only about 5,500 people live in Luling和tens of thousands of people come可知，自1954年开始，Luling小镇的人口在六月最后的那个周末不断增加。而根据该段的内容可知，小镇的常住人口仅有5500人，因为当地举办的西瓜节吸引来自世界各地的游客，因此人口在节日期间急剧上涨
