Join us on December 17th, 2006 (2nd day of Hanukkah) for our annual Hanukkah Family Fun Fest for an exciting day of fun activities for the whole family. The Hazimir Choir will provide holiday musical entertainment. Drum Tales will present “The Hearty Story of Hanukkah” show. There will be ceramic(陶瓷) painting of dreidles, menorahs(烛台), and other Hanukkah items for the kids. And fun foods, crafts(手工艺) and activities will be happening throughout the day. Bring the whole family and enjoy a fun—filled day!
11:30—Jolly Follies puppet show Ages 2-12
A fun muppet(提线木偶) style musical holiday story followed by a Hanukkah sing a long featuring the “Chipmunks” and other favorite characters. Adult: $7 Child $ 5
1:30—Hazamir Teen Choir
Sponsored by the Berman and Lerner families in memory of Cantor Moses L. Snyder
3:15—Drum Tales presents The Hearty Story of Hanukkah
Drum Tales is fun, interactive percussive(打击乐) and musical. It is much like the traditional drum circle concept. It combines story telling, musical instrumentation and song. Each participants is given a percussive instrument which becomes their media of transportation to far away lands and exotic places, to ride the waves of mystery of an unfolding plot, and into the deep realm of imagination and the colorful beyond. Drumming, rhyming, rapping, clinking, shaking and clapping, this performance will leave you feeling refreshed after having returned from a journey through these stories! Audlts $ 7 Child $ 5
Plus food and fun for the entire family
Crafts with BBYO and Young Judea
Ceramic painting with Jack and Jill
T-Shirt fun with Computer Adventures
Fun with Cyber-Connection
Vendors
Special visit by “Chanukah Bubby ”
1.How much does a family of three (a kid and parents) have to pay if they attend Jolly Follies puppet show?
A.$ 21. B.$ 15. C.$ 19. D.$ 17.
2.What feeling will you not experience if you attend the Drum Tales?
A.Mystery. B.Imagination. C.Exoticism D.Horror.
3.If your family are free at 1:30, what activity can you take part in?
A.Drum Tales: The Hearty Story of Hanukkah.
B.Hazamir Teen Choir.
C.Jolly Follies puppet show.
D.Cartoon films.
4.What is not included in the Chanukah Festival?
A.Ceramic painting. B.Fun foods.
C.Computer adventures. D.Fashion show.
阅读四
Never forget where you come from
Many of us remember the touching television advertisement where the actor Iron Eyes Cody sheds a tear over litter. Such Native images are often used to convey the idea of saving mother earth. People who accept this image find it difficult to bring together what they have seen of some reservations—shabby homes, broken cars, underfed dogs, weeds in winds, and coal strip mines. Those who most romanticize American Indians are the quickest to be disappointed and discover that things are not as good as they have once believed. However, Indians’ relationship with the land is much more complicated(复杂的) than those two black and white images which appeared in the television.
Historically, tribal(部落的) people around the globe have had close ties with the earth. Lakota historian Vine Deloria, Jr., tells the story of the Ponca people who were taken from their range over a century ago and transported against their will to Oklahoma. Otherwise healthy, many Ponca wasted and died from no other clear cause than separation from their home. As Cheryl Crazy Bull says in this issue, “The land is our relative. Without land, tribal people lose their identity—the land along with language, spiritual beliefs, and social systems distinguishes tribal people from others.”
To many people in the United States, the Indian reservation is an embarrassment. It represents the American version of racial seperation—a prison without walls where the government confined Indians to keep them apart from other Americans. To Indian people the reservation is home, regardless of what it looks like. They have spiritual, emotional, and family ties. Many of their relatives still live there or are buried there, and their creation stories are centered there.
Americans tend to pull up roots and separate from their birthplace, moving from city to city many times. Many of us non—Indians have never visited the places where our ancestors are buried or the houses where our parents were born. Western nations use Earth in the same way, as if we can go to another planet when the air and water become too dirty. On the other hand, tribes are very familiar with the concept of limited resource. They cannot get another reservation if theirs becomes too polluted.
1.What does the writer mainly intend to state in this passage?
A. American Indians are disappointed with their living environment.
B.American Indians lead a miserable life now.
C.Television advertisements can have an unexpected effect on people.
D.Land is very important to people, especially tribal people.
2.The author included the story of the Ponca people in this article mainly to state .
A.the close relationship between tribal people and land
B.the poverty of the tribal people
C.the long history of the Ponca people
D.the great changes of the Ponca peoples life
3.Which of the following statements is true according to this passage?
A.Americans can use land as they like and then go to another place.
B.People in the west don’t like to travel from city to city.
C.Tribal people have the same concept of the resources as the non-Indians.
D.The reservations have both positive and negative(负面的)effects on Indian people’s life.
4.What topic does this article focus on?
A.Family life of the Indians.
B.People’s attitude towards land.
C.The history of tribal people.
D.Environmental pollution nowadays.
