Summer Festivals 夏季的节日

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UK Music Festivals 英国的音乐节

What's your idea of a good time? What about dancing in a rainy field with one hundred and fifty thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look like ants?

It may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every summer. Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals .

Held on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular in the UK . It began in 1970 and was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an admission price of ￡1 – the ticket included free milk from the farm.

Since then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength – in 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying ￡112 for tickets to the three-day event . Tickets for the event sold out within three hours. Acts included veteran superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent , like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.

Although many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.

Glastonbury is not unique in using live music to raise money for global poverty . In July of this year, the Live 8 concerts will be held simulta neo usly in London , Paris , Rome and Berlin . Superstars, such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder will perform in order to highlight international poverty and debt .

GLOSSARY 　词汇表（收听发音，请单击英语单词）
stage - 舞台	outdoor music festivals – 户外音乐节
admission price – 入场券	(to go) from strength to strength – 越来越壮大；迅猛发展
fans – 狂热者；影迷，乐迷，球迷	three-day event – 三天的活动
sold out – 售光	acts – 演出；（戏剧中的）幕
veteran – 老牌的；老资格的	new talent – 新人
profit-making – 盈利的	charity – 慈善
live music – 现场音乐；实况音乐	global poverty – 全球贫困
simultaneously – 同时地	perform – 表演；演出
debt - 债务

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