in May. It is a day to thank 2 .On that day mothers usually 3 flowers and cards. On the cards,children will write
"Thanks,Mum" ,"To the best mother in the world", "Best wishes for Mother"s Day" and so on.
Where does the idea for the holiday 4 ?We should thank Miss Anna M. Jarvis. She brought up the idea of having
such a day. She lived in West Virginia.Her mother died 5 May 9,1905.
She 6 her mother. She wrote letters to some important persons. In her letters she asked them to decide a day for
7 mothers. Then Mother"s Day was made on the second Sunday in May by the USA 8 1913.
On Mother"s Day,children give presents to their mothers, 9 the whole family go out and try to do something 10
for their mothers to make them happy.
( )2. A. fathers
( )3. A.buy
( )4. A. be from
( )5. A. on
( )6. A. didn"t love
( )7. A.both
( )8. A.in
( )9. A.but
( )10.A. nice
B. teachers
B.get
B.is from
B.in
B. forgot
B.all
B.on
B.or
B. new
C. mothers
C.send
C. come from
C. at
C. hated (恨)
C.their
C.at
C.than
C.different
D. parents
D.give
D. came from
D. for
D. had a deep love for
D.every
D.by
D.because
D. important
size of their king"s foot or hand. After the king died,they used the new king"s foot, and so on.That wasn"t a very good
way to measure things,because it wasn"t always clear how big or small a thing really was.
People all over the world used the sun and the moon to measure time. However, they all had different numbers of
days in a week and different numbers of hours in a day.
In 1584,a scientist called Simon Stevenius started to think about a set of measures that used the number ten, but no
one was interested in his ideas. About two hundred years later,a group of scientists in France decided to use his ideas.
They thought of ways to measure everything using ten.Some of their ideas weren"t popular.One was a new clock which had ten hours a day. Another was a new calendar(日历) which had ten days a week.
The scientists agreed to use meters to measure length and they worked out how long a meter should be. Then they
decided to call one hundredth of a meter a centimeter and a thousand meters a kilometer.
2. How did people measure time in ancient times?
3. Who started to think about a set of measures that used the number ten?
4. When did the French people start to use meters probably?
5. What do people call a thousand meters?
potatoes. They like to eat them every day. They eat bread for breakfast and usually for one other meal.
They eat their bread with butter (黄油), maybe cheese (乳酪) or jam (果酱), things we don"t eat much
in China. Cheese and butter are made from milk. They drink a lot of milk, too. They drink the milk cold
or hot, and they put it in their tea. They put sugar in their tea, as well. They are the world"s biggest tea
drinkers. They like Chinese tea, but they drink mostly strong black tea from India and Sri Lanka
(斯里兰卡). They don"t eat much rice. For their main meal they like meat or fish with potatoes and one
or two vegetables. They serve all these together. After the main meal they always have something sweet.
They call this dessert (甜点心). They don"t have Jiaozi in Britain.
B. beef
C. butter
D. milk
B. Cheese for
C. bread with
D. jam for
B. from India
C. for China
D. in China
B. eat sweet bread
C. have sweet something
D. have something sweet
B. in England
C. from India
D. from Sri Lanka
cars. A 3 he is poor, he doesn"t feel really poor when he has a car.
Henry Ford was the man who first b 4 making cars. Maybe, he didn"t know how much the car
was going to affect (影响) the United States. That made the USA a country on w__5 . And they have
helped to make the United States rich and modern.
The car has been popular in the USA. The country is a large one. Americans like to m 6 around
in it. It is easier and cheaper to travel by car. With a car; people can go to any place without spending
too much money.
Korean culture is really exciting right now. The Korean Wave is sweeping Asian countries including
China. Young people are going crazy about Korean TV plays, Korean pop songs, taekwondo (跆拳道)
and the Korean language.
The Korean Wave started a few years ago with the TV series "Winter Sonata". This love story is
still popular. People, especially girls, like the beautiful story and handsome actors like Bae Yong Jun
(裴勇俊).
In the music world, Korean girls are making themselves heard in China. You can often find big
Korean names like Baby Vox, S.E.S and Finkle at the top of the Chinese music charts (排行榜).
The Korean Wave has also made young people want to try the clothes and hairstyles of pop stars,
too. Not only that.Now some girls in China are having plastic surgery (整容) to change the way they
look.People say some beautiful Korean stars have had plastic surgery. These stars who don"t make
plastic surgerylook shameful (丢面子的).
Are all the faces of beautiful Korean girls not real? Find out for yourself when you next visit South
Korea.
B.Korean culture
C.Korean language
D.Korean actors
B.Taekwondo
C.the TV series "Winter Sonata"
D.the Korean food
B.Baby Vox
C.S.E.S
D.Finkle
B.acting in TV plays
C.trying different food
D.having plastic surgery
B.Young people like Korean pop stars" clothes and hairstyles.
C.Chinese girls also want to try plastic surgery.
D.Korean pop stars think plastic surgery is shameful.
English people put sugar in their porridge, but the Scottish always put salt in it.
English people always drink tea out of cups, not out of glasses. They usually drink tea with sugar
and milk. When you go to an English family for tea, the host or hostess always asks you, "How many
lumps of sugar do you want in your tea?"
In ordinary English families, the main meal is in the evening, because most of the families are away
during the day. But on Sunday when everybody is at home, they make the midday meal, and in the
evening they have a much lighter supper.
( ) 2. English people have the main meal in the evening on Sunday.
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