Do you have any plans for your summer holiday? Here is a guide to find activities in Seattle.

    ①West Seattle Bee Festival

    Sustainable(可持续的) gardening practices and other ways to help bees; vendors (摊贩), and organizations that help support bees, kids' activities, music, food vendors.

    Time: 10: 00am-—3: 00pm.

    For more information: call 206-533-7848

    Location : High Point Commons Park, Seattle

    Date: June 25.

    ②Space Race Exhibit

    Opening day of new show of things from lights to the moon in the 1960s on show, including moon rocks, space clothes, the first Apollo spacecraft and the historic Apollo12 engines that were lost at the bottom of the sea for 43 years until they were recovered by Seattle-based Bezos Expeditions in 2013.

    Time: 10: 00am—5: 00pm.

    Location: The Museum of Flight, Seattle

    Date: May 20.

    ③Kirkland Uncorked

    During the Wine Festival, people enjoy tasting wine, food, live music in the Tasting Garden. Street fair for all ages with Uncorked Market.

    Time: 5: 00pm—10: 00pm, August 14; noon—10: 00pm, August 15;

    noon—6: 00pm, August 16.

    Cost: $20-$25;

    Call for more information: 206-548-2500

    Location : Marina Park, Kirkland

    Date: August 14—16

    ④Touch-a-Truck

    Children of all ages explore construction (建筑) trucks, emergency(紧急) cars, old trucks professionals explain the equipment and so on. Horns-free (无喇叭声)hours for children with sensitive ears 9: 00am-10: am;

hosted by Junior League of Seattle.

    Call for more information: 206-708-2236

    Location: Magnuson Park, Seattle

    Date: July 21.

    A champion (冠军) bodybuilder in his youth, Toshisuke Kanazawa retired at the age of 34.

    He stopped exercising completely and started smoking and eating whatever he liked. He would often look at himself in the mirror and wondered if that was the body of national bodybuilder champion. At that time, his wife felt sick and sad. He remembered that she was always very happy when he won the national championship. In order to make his wife happy again, he got motivation(动机）to get back on the horse when he was 50. He decided to go back into the gym.

    He had to give up smoking and drinking and adopt (适应) a based diet on rice, soybeans and egg soup but no meat or fish because they were too difficult to digest (消化) . In his youth, he spent six hours training in the gym every day. His training time had to be based on his age. He cut the daily gym time three hours, and started giving his body one week to recover after exercising every muscle group.

    Kanazawa stared seeing the results of his hard work soon after great lifestyle change, but here was one effect of ageing--bodybuilding couldn't recover completely-loose(松弛)skin. So he started using oil obtained from horses, which he still uses today to keep his skin tight. In 2016, at 80, Toshisuke Kannazawa won sixth place in a competition for bodybuilders in the world over 65, and won a special gold medal as the oldest competitor.

    Can you show your city through a camera? Here are some works: photos of their favorite people, places and things, from flowers to friends, and trees to trains. The photos make up an exhibition that is the result of a special citywide(全市的) photography lesson called "Everyday D.C. "I love that D.C. is a place where people can come together and be free and be with everyone that they love, " said Lauryn Tharpe, one of the four student curators (策展人) who worked with their art teacher at Brookland Middle School to put the exhibition together. here's more to D. C. than big buildings and important people. ""Everyday D.C." was inspired(鼓舞)by a popular photo-sharing called Everyday Africa, started by two professional-photographers(专摄影师) who noticed that their personal photos of Africa showed a different story than their professional work. The goal of the online photo "exhibition" is to show viewers(观众)what it's like to live in Africa, Here in Washington D. C., students took photos to describe their lives in the capital. Twelve middle schools, each hands in about 10 student photos, from beautiful portraits  (人像) to abstract close-ups (抽象特写) , action shots (动作特写) and delicious pictures of favorite foods. Lauryn and the other three student curators Alexis Thomas, Makayla Herrington and Bridney Takoh were chosen to be curators by their art teacher, Maame Bawuah,

    I have a lot of amazing students, although the four of them are excellent, "said Bawuah, who chose the students to be curators because of their interest in both photography and learning about museum curation (策划) when they go to high school.

    Do you like ice cream? It is enjoyed by most people as a kind of dessert throughout the world.  Of all the people across the world, more ice cream is eaten in Australia than in any other country: 16. 6 litres (升) per person per year.

    A form of ice cream was eaten in China about 4, 000 years ago.

    Ice cream was brought to Europe in the l6th century, but at that time only the super-rich could afford it. When the Italian princess Catherine de Medici married the future King Henry II of France in 1533,a different kind of ice cream was served every day for a month!

    Ice cream was introduced to America in the1700s, but mostly enjoyed by the wealthy.

    Around 1800 special ice houses were invented and ice cream became an American industry.  In 1946, they ate more than 20 litres of ice cream per person.

    World's most popular flavor (味道) is vanilla (香草) , which was produced from vanilla beans. 80% of the world's vanilla beans grew on the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. Ice cream is bought almost every day!

A. The most favourite topping is chocolate.

B. It was made of milk, rice, fruit and snow!

C. Americans celebrated the victory of World War Two with ice cream.

D. In Europe alone, about €11 billion a year is spent on ice cream.

E. Ice cream didn't become available (可利用的) to the general population in France until 1660.

    Jane is an Australian girl. She likes sports very much. Last year, she went to climb a 1mountain. When she began to climb, she wanted to 2 the top quickly. 3 she ran fast all the way. Then she arrived at a ridge(山脊). She was very 4 to the top now, and she could see the other people on the top. She couldn't wait to 5 them.

    Suddenly, she saw that there was a huge stone 6 the way. She wasn't able to see a road up to the top. "How can I get to the top?" She 7 loudly. So she thought, I will have to jump over the huge 8, "she tried again and again. but she couldn't 9 it. It's too high. How all those people get to the top? She said to 10 "Perhaps they are taller and 11than me."

    Just at that moment, a middle-aged woman12 behind her. "Would you like to reach the top of the mountain?" She asked. The girl said yes. "You follow me." the woman said. The girl followed the woman to the far side of the ridge and saw there was a winding（弯曲）road.

    Climbing the road was 13.Soon they got to the top.

    At times the fastest way to get where you would like to go is to take many small 14 instead of one big jump, It needs patience, courage and wisdom. "said the woman.15, the girl understood what she should do on the way to success.

    Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic(西班牙裔)astronaut woman to fly into space. As a child, Ochoa didn't know what she wanted to be when she grew up.  her mother always told her stay in school and study hard. She listened to her mother. When she was 13 years old, she won a spelling contest. In high school, Ochoa spent many hours each week  for all her subjects. She finished with the  grades in her class. After high school, Ochoa went to college. One day in college she heard that the U. S. government had chosen six women to become . After her many years of hard work. She asked to be an astronaut in 1990. In April, 1993 in the space shuttle (航天飞机) named Discovery, she made history by becoming the first Hispanic woman to travel to space. Ochoa and the other astronauts had many jobs while on the Discovery. One oftasks was to use the shuttle's robot arm to love large objects. Ochoa used a computer to make the arm pick up a satellite and put it into space. A satellite is a spacecraft that moves around the earth  some other objects. Satellites can take pictures and gather (收集)  about planets and stars. During her  trip in 1994, she used the robot arm again. She used the arm to pull in a satellite from space. The satellite had peen used to study the air around the earth. Then Ochoa went to two more shuttle trips. Altogether, she  a whole month in space. That's more than700 hours. She is a hero to many young people. She often tells young people: Nothing is impossible if you put your heart into it.

    Austin and his father, TJ Perine, were watching a program  a mother panda leaving her babies. His father told him that the babies would be homeless for a while. Austin didn't know what homelessness meant. So his father took Austin to the Firehouse Ministries, a local helterprovides houses and food for homeless people. As they drove by, they saw twenty-five homeless men standing on the street corner. "Dad, they look sad," Austin said.

    "Can we take them some food and make them smile?"

    Austin used his pocket money to buy hamburgers and handed the food out . Seeing what the burgers meant to the men, Austin returned the next week. He handed out burgers with his catchphrase(口号）, "Don't forget to show love!" Austin's acts of kindness spread through social media. BurgerKing agreed to donate(捐赠)$1000 a month for a year to feed homeless. Soon, churches and shelters began inviting Austin to give out food in poor areas. Thanks to social support, now Austin and his father  feed 800 to 2000 people.

A: The weekend is coming. Jack?

B: I have no idea. What about you?

A: I want to go to the library. A new library near my neighbourhood opened last week. Have you ever been there?

B: . Many students like playing computer games in their free time. Why are you so interested in books?

A: .

B: You are right. I'd like to go and have a look with you.

A: A library card must be needed if you want to borrow books. So you'd better get one.

B: ?

A: Five yuan.

B: OK. ?

A: At 4: 00 pm on Sunday at the gate of our neighbourhood.

B: All right. See you.

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