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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
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.
Gardening is a very popular hobby. And it is one that produces wonderful results – food for your dinner table and flowers for your home! Gardens themselves can be very beautiful. So you would think that a garden path is a great place to be. Well, in conversation, it is not. Leading someone up the garden path means you are trying to trick them. You are not trying to show them your beautiful flowers.
Speaking of beautiful flowers, gardeners love to see small buds (芽) forming on their plants. Besides plants and flowers, people can bud, too. If a child is good at drawing and painting, we can call him a budding artist. So “budding” describes something that is beginning to develop.
On the opposite end, you stop something from growing if you nip it in the bud. This is a common expression when we talk about stopping something bad and preventing it from continuing. It's good to nip small problems in the bud before they turn into big problems.
Now flowers that bloom （开花）are beautiful to see – even garden-variety flowers. “Garden-variety” describes anything that is common and not so special. You can have a garden-variety cold—not a serious illness.
Now, a problem that many gardeners have is weeds. Weeds grow easily and can quickly take over a garden. In conversation, we sometimes use “weeds” to mean too many details. So, if you are in the weeds, you are taken over by too many details.
As we said, weeds grow quickly. So do children. So, we like to say a child grows like a weed. This expression compares a child's fast growth to that of a weed.
Webber is a labor economist. His latest research offers guidance on how to keep students on target to earn a degree from a college or university. Among his findings: It is important, whenever possible, for college students to complete their degree program in four years. Also, getting a part-time job is probably a good thing to help finance a college education. But too much time spent working on a job makes it less likely the student will graduate.
One thing, Webber said, is financial aid that helps many students pay for college. Scholarships and other assistance generally stop after four years. So the cost of each additional year in school is likely to come almost entirely from the student and/or parents.
But there are other reasons why taking more than four years is a problem, as Webber notes. It's because life gets in the way, other things happen. He means the longer you stay in college, the more likely that some unexpected event will affect your studies. It could be a loved one getting sick, a parent losing a job, or the student running out of money for college.
Only about four in 10 graduated within four years. It is also important that students have enough time to complete their college classes, Webber added. His research suggests part-time work of 15 hours or less will not cause harm to the student's scholastic performance. But his research shows students who work 20 hours or more a week are about 15 percent less likely to graduate on time, or to graduate at all.
His belief is that students active in college athletic programs would face the same problem. It is common, he said, for student athletes to spend 20 hours or more for training, travel and to compete against athletes or teams from other schools.
The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger, a kind of round sandwich of cooked beef. 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.
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.
First, they are not formal restaurants. Customers wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. 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. 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.
On my way back home I was stopped at a traffic light by some people who asked for help. A woman 1 to give way to an ambulance, but drove her car over stony obstacles （阻碍）that 2 the bike line from the street, and had her car 3 as a result. She couldn't move the car in any direction without 4 it. A couple of people tried to lift the car back but the obstacles were too 5. Seeing that they couldn't do much about it, they 6 and the woman in the car tried to call for some 7.
While watching the other people leave, I 8 the woman would be on her own and I imagined how 9 that would be if I were in her shoes. After some talking, she 10 me to sit inside her car. She called for help and was 11 that it would take about 45 minutes for someone to get there.
I tried to comfort the woman who seemed to feel 12 about causing others trouble. But 13 it wasn't too much trouble since they could 14 pass, and also there wasn't anything she could do about it anyway. We laughed and joked that all we 15 was some tea for our chat.
Finally 16 came and helped her back on the street. She thanked me and 17 my phone number so she could return the 18, but I told her it was okay. She seemed to feel much 19 when we said our goodbyes. I believe that not having to face a difficult 20 alone can make a lot of a difference.
I don't very often have a full day off work. Today I did. I had a leisurely morning, going to the gym, (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 (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 me. I prayed then, that somehow we would have (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 (plan) were, when I said I had the afternoon free she asked me 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 (be) urgent and needed to be done.
I raced home and got (change) into work appropriate clothes and took over. Our boss phoned and thanked me for stepping in so that everything went (smooth). The unwell person went home, and I got four hours extra pay. It's amazing how universe works.
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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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