[单项选择] Happy Father’s Day
The idea for Father’s Day started in 1901. A woman named Sonora Dodd thought about starting a Father’s Day holiday while she was listening to a Mother’s Day speech at church. She wanted a special day to give her father, William Smart. Mr Smart’s wife died while she was giving birth to their sixth child. He raised the baby and his other five children on a farm.
When she became an adult, Sonora Dodd understood how kind and loving her father had been while he was raising his six children alone. She believed her father had worked very hard to make sure his children grew up healthy and strong. Sonora’s father was born in June So she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration(庆祝) on June 19th, 1910.
Since 1966 the third Sunday in June has become a national Father’s Day in America. In early times, people wore red roses to show respect for fathers who were still living and white flowers for fathers who had died. T
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

[单项选择]St. Patrick's Day is observed in honor of early immigrants from ______.
A. Italy B. Portugal C. Ireland D. Poland

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St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. Legend has it that this patron saint had given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland. He also used the three-leafed shamrock to represent the Trinity how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could all exist as separate elements of the same entity—and converted the pagans to Christianity. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for hundreds of years. People wear green in memory of the Emerald Isle and wear shamrocks.
The first St. Patrick’s Day parade, however, took place not in Ireland, but in the United States. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 1762. Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers, as well as fellow Irishmen serving in the English army, to reconnect with their Irish roots.
Over the next thirty-five ye
A. representing the Trinity with a plant
B. changing the belief of pagans
C. getting snakes out of Ireland
D. making people wear costume

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St. Martin’s Day is a holiday in Holland. St. Martin was a man who did kind things for many people in need. One cold winter day he was walking home. He wore a coat to keep warm and had a small piece of bread to eat. Then he saw a stranger on the side of the road. The man sat on the ground and he was hungry and had no home. St. Martin took out his knife and cut his coat into two. He gave the man half of his warm coat. Then he gave the man haft of his bread.
Nancy was a schoolgirl in Holland. One St. Martin’s day, she rode her bicycle with her classmates after school. When she got home, she said goodbye to her classmates and went into her yard. As she parked her bike, she heard a noise in the grass. She jumped back suddenly. At her feet was a small gray homeless cat. "That old cat keeps scaring me!" she complained as she walked into the room. "It won’t hurt you, " said her father.
She was angry about the cat but she could not be unhappy for long. It
A. He worked for his country.
B. He saved homeless animals.
C. He gave his food to a poor man.