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There are four fun festivals throughout the year in Brazil.
Festa Junina
Festa Junina is celebrated all over Brazil for the entire month of June as a yearly celebration of Saint John. It celebrates country life with typical clothes, food and dances inside a large tent, with decorations such as colored flags, beautiful table cloths and balloons.
Oktoberfest
The Germanic roots of the south of Brazil brought this traditional German festival to Brazil, where it has become one of the most popular beer festivals. Held in the middle of October every year in Blumenau, it celebrates typical German cuisine and plenty of beer. There are all kinds of German foods at the festival.
Festival de Cachaca
Every year in the town of Paraty, Festival de Cachaca is held for cachaca, the national drink made from sugarcane (甘蔗). This festival is held over a long weekend in August and it gives you a chance to try cachaca. There are also shows of samba and food trucks. It’s also a great opportunity to get to know the beautiful town of Paraty.
Parintins Folklore Festival
The festival held every year in Parintins is the second largest in Brazil after the carnival. It goes over a period of three days at the end of June and celebrates the Amazonian legend of a resurrected ox (复活的牛). The main attraction of the festival is the competition between the two teams Garantido and Caprichoso that compete to retell the story of the ox through a mix of dancing and singing.
1. What festival lasts the longest time?
A. Oktoberfest. B. Festa Junina.
C. Parintins Folklore Festival. D. Festival de Cachaca.
2. What can you do if you attend Oktoberfest?
A. Taste German food. B. Watch shows of samba.
C. Drink the national drink. D. Listen to the story of the ox.
3. What do the four festivals have in common?
A. They are yearly activities. B. They enjoy global popularity.
C. They focus on food and dancing. D. They are celebrated all over Brazil.
B
The two rescuers knew they were in trouble when they found that they had to stay at the airport on the night before Thanksgiving with a grounded plane and 30 turtles (海龟). Regnante and her husband, Tingley, were part of a volunteer effort to save hundreds of sea turtles that were washed up close to death on the beaches of Massachusetts.
The couple urgently needed to find temperature-controlled accommodation for the endangered sea turtles. They were in the rescuer race to save the smallest sea turtles in the world, at a little over 2 feet long, and they had been found with very low temperatures. Every year, hundreds of turtles follow warm ocean currents north from their hatching sites in the Gulf of Mexico, become trapped in the cold Atlantic and are then rescued from Cape Cod by volunteers, who take them to wildlife centers along warmer coastlines.
Regnante is a volunteer in Turtles Fly Too, a charity that provides air transport for the stricken turtles. One day, she took off with the turtles from near Boston in a plane piloted by her husband. They were bound for (飞往) New Orleans but storms forced them to change course and refuel twice. Then, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, a stone damaged the propeller. “It was just one thing after another,” Regnante said. “I just kind of wanted to say, ‘Guys, it’s going to be OK’. ”
For turtles, being out of the water and in transit (在运送中) for a long period was stressful. Luckily, a happy ending was delivered. Two heated trucks were sent nearby, where the turtles spent the night. On Thanksgiving morning, Regnante and Tingley drove them to a handover point in Alabama from where the turtles were taken to their new home.
“Turtles Fly Too does whatever it takes to make the mission happen,” Leslie, president of the charity, said. “When challenges arise, we’ll be quick to make adjustments.”
4. What can be inferred about the sea turtles?
A. They were hatching babies. B. They were dying from hunger.
C. They were to be brought to cold areas. D. They were in danger of poor condition.
5. What made Tingley change course during the flight to New Orleans?
A. The fund issue. B. The bad weather.
C. The lack of fuel of the plane. D. The physical condition of his wife.
6. What did Leslie mean in the last paragraph?
A. Everything has its two sides.
B. They will try their best to help themselves.
C. Saving turtles sometimes depends on luck.
D. The charity will spare no effort to save the turtles.
7. What can be the best title for the text?
A. A Race to Save Turtles B. Endangered Sea Turtles
C. New Shelters for Sea Turtles D. An Introduction to Turtles Fly Too
C
I am an active playgoer and play-reader, and perhaps my best reason for editing this book is a hope of sharing my enthusiasm for the theater with others. To do this I have searched through dozens of plays to find the ones that I think best show the power and purpose of the short play.
Each play has a theme or central idea which the playwright (剧作家) hopes to get across through dialogue and action. A few characters are used to create a single impression growing out of the theme. It is not my intention to point out the central theme of each of the plays in this collection, for that would, indeed, ruin the pleasure of reading, discussing, and thinking about the plays and the effectiveness of the playwright. However, a variety of types are represented here. These include comedy, satire, poignant drama, historical and regional drama. To show the versatility (多面性) of the short play, I have included a guidance play, a radio play and a television play.