News Item 5 Silk Road Folk Life Festival
Marilyn Christiano Broadcast： May 29, 2002
Vocabulary：
1.festival n. an occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals 節日，喜慶日
2.presenter n. the one who presents 推薦者
3.exhibit vt. to show outwardly； display 表現；展現 to present in a public exhibition or contest 展覽
4.mushroom n. any of various fleshy fungi of the class Basidiomycota, characteristically having an umbrella-shaped cap borne on a stalk, especially any of the edible kinds, as those of the genus Agaricus 蘑菇
5.cello n. a four-stringed instrument of the violin family, pitched lower than the viola but higher than the double bass 大提琴
6.calligraphy n. the art of fine handwriting 書法
Step one Try to answer the following questions in your own words as clearly as possible.
1. It will be the first Folk life Festival that honors only one subject. What is this subject?
2.About how many years ago, trade paths later known as the Silk Road linked Asia and Europe?
3.What is the festival called this year?
4.When was the yearly Folk life Festival started?
5.Where can the visitors begin to follow the Silk Road?
6.What are the main themes of the festival?
Step Two Complete the following blanks with the exact words from the news.
1.This year, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival is ____ the living ____ of the Silk Road, the ____ of the centuries of____. It will also show the influence of these____ on American life today.
2.About________people will take part in the festival. They are coming from more than twenty countries that ____ from the Pacific Ocean to the ____ Sea and from the United States. They include____, artists, cooks, ____, dancers and presenters.
3.Mr. Kennedy says it was a new way of ____ what museums should be. The Folklife Festival used the ____ of the museum exhibit, but ____ on living people rather than ____. It also was a way to try to increase the numbers and kinds of people who ____ the Smithsonian and take ____ in its activities.
4.Mister Kennedy says that organizing a Folklife Festival generally begins with identifying artists who____community traditions. Arts and traditions help____a community together. Mister Kennedy says the feeling is that when these ____and arts disappear, and then the communities disappear. The Smithsonian Folklife Festivals are a way to honor and support the ____ traditions， music and arts of____ communities.
Notes ：
1.Istanbul 伊斯坦布爾（土耳其西北部港市）
2.Syria 敘利亞共和國（西南亞國家）
3.Sufi 〈伊斯蘭〉蘇非派
4.Mongolia 蒙古
5.Siemens 西門子（MKS 製電導單位，相當於歐姆）
6.Azerbaijan 阿塞拜疆
7.Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦
8.Mediterranean sea 地中海，位於歐，亞，非三大洲之間
News Item 6 People in America — Maria Callas
Shelley Gollust Broadcast： June 23, 2002
Vocabulary：
1.scenery n. a view or views of natural features, especially in open country 風景(尤指鄉村中的自然景色）
2.composer n. one that composes, especially a person who composes music 作曲家，創作者（尤指作曲家）
3.cruelty n. the quality or condition of being cruel 殘忍，殘酷 something, such as a cruel act or remark, that causes pain or suffering 使遭受痛苦或災難的事物，如殘忍的行為或言詞