Reading Oktoberfest
Palmer Park is the perfect place to host the first Reading Oktoberfest, which takes place 15-18 September 2016.
You can experience everything that makes Oktoberfest, held in a huge Beer tent. We'll have live music and DJs and thousands of people going crazy.
Opening hours:
Thursday 15 September 17:00-23:30
Friday 16 September 17:00-23:30
Saturday 17 September 12:30-23:30
Sunday 18 September 12:30-19:00
Ramsbottom Festival
With its riverside location, Ramsbottom Festival is one festival which can truly be called 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 16-18 September 2016 at Ramsbottom Cricket Club, Bury, easily reachable by public transport from Manchester city centre.
The Willow Festival Dorset
The Willow Festival — the world's 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 come-and-go attendance for all three days.
River Cottage Festival
It's our first ever family-friendly music festival, right here at River Cottage HQ in Devon.
On 17-18 September 2016, the farm will be filled with live music from popular bands in the UK. In between all that dancing you'll be able to watch shows 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).
1.Both The Willow Festival Dorset and River Cottage Festival _____.
A. are held in 2016 for the first time
B. ask visitors to pay the same price
C. take place near a river
D. are family-friendly
2.Which of the four festivals lasts longest?
A. River Cottage Festival.
B. Ramsbottom Festival.
C. Reading Oktoberfest.
D. The Willow Festival Dorset.
I used to have this destructive problem.
I would remember something ____ or stupid I did when I was younger and the memory would hurt. In fact, I don’t know if it was pain in my ____ or just physical pain, ____ it would hurt.
I would be eating dinner or taking a shower and I would feel the memory approaching suddenly. There was no way I could ____ it. All I could do was wait until the memory went away. It took me a long time to recognize I was ____ a type of grief (悲伤) and the way I was dealing with it wasn’t ____. I’d stop and clench (攥紧) my fists until the ____ of the memory passed: half fighting it, half letting it defeat (击败) me. It truly was like a person who ____ roller coasters riding a roller coaster: I would ____ it firmly while on the ride, scream, let it move quickly, and then just wish it would be over.
Then, one day I ____ there had to be something better than letting the ____ disaster of my life hurt me whenever they wanted to. I finally decided to handle the next incident ____. That next time turned out to be a cold winter morning as I ____ across the parking lot from the subway station. I could feel ____, shame and guilty start to hit me. But this time, I didn’t react in an unhealthy way. ____, I stopped walking, closed my eyes, and opened my ____ as if I was about to give someone a hug (拥抱).
I welcomed the memory of a time when I acted stupidly and selfishly and had ____ other people. I remembered all the details and then I ____ what I had done. Though all the things showed the fact that I was not ____, I learned to forgive myself. As a result, I stopped letting the memory ____ me.
1.A. selfish B. enjoyable C. strange D. amazing
2.A. head B. stomach C. mind D. nerve
3.A. and B. but C. or D. so
4.A. forget B. face C. afford D. stop
5.A. experiencing B. expressing C. showing D. observing
6.A. traditional B. honest C. practical D. healthy
7.A. pain B. time C. value D. history
8.A. loves B. fears C. chooses D. avoids
9.A. fix B. say C. grasp D. shake
10.A. proved B. realized C. remembered D. wondered
11.A. narrow B. past C. bright D. straight
12.A. secretly B. carefully C. differently D. equally
13.A. ran B. drove C. rode D. walked
14.A. risk B. pressure C. regret D. doubt
15.A. Instead B. However C. Still D. Besides
16.A. windows B. doors C. arms D. eyes
17.A. puzzled B. praised C. encouraged D. hurt
18.A. witnessed B. shared C. recorded D. accepted
19.A. perfect B. beautiful C. unfriendly D. stupid
20.A. respect B. help C. control D. fool
—_____ Why do you look so sad?
—I’ve lost all my files from the computer. It’s a disaster.
A. How are you? B. What are you doing?
C. What’s wrong with you? D. How about your computer?
You know that little Italian restaurant — the one _____ I mentioned in my letter? Well, it’s just amazing and I hope we will get a chance to have dinner there sometime.
A. where B. that
C. as D. when
I can’t wait to get such an interesting book. So I would be most _____ if you could send it to me immediately.
A. useful B. careful
C. helpful D. grateful
Look at the rules on the wall! The books are not allowed _____ out of the room. So you had better look through it quickly in the library.
A. being taken B. taking
C. to be taken D. to take
