[填空题]Where did the name of the Valentine’s Day come from
The Valentine’s Day was named after（）.

[填空题]Where did the name of the Valentine’s Day come from
The Valentine’s Day was named after .

[简答题]Each of us requires about 50 quarts per day fro drinking, bathing, cooking and other basic needs. At present, 1.1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water and more than 2.4 billion lack adequate sanitation. "Unless we take swift and decisive action," says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, "by 2025, two-thirds of the world’’s population may be living in countries that face serious water shortage." The answer is to get smart about how we use water. Agriculture accounts for about two-thirds of the fresh water consumed in the world. A report prepared for the summit calls for more efficient irrigation techniques and more planting of crop varieties that require less water and better monitoring of growing conditions. Improving water-delivery systems would also help, reducing the amount that is lost on the way to the people who use it.

[单项选择]Where did Starbucks, the store name come from
A. A great character in history.
B. A theatrical role in a play.
C. A special symbol in life.
D. An imaginary person in a fiction.

[简答题]Where is the name“Canada”believed to have come from

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Daylight Saving Time (DST)

How and When Did Daylight Saving Time Start
A．Benjamin Franklin-of "early to bed and early to rise" fame-was apparently the first person to suggest the concept of daylight savings. While serving as U.S. ambassador to France in Pads, Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6 a.m. and realizing, to his surprise, that the sun would rise far earlier than he usually did. Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and burned less midnight oil, Franklin, tongue half in cheek, wrote to a newspaper.
B．It wasn’t until World War I that daylight savings were realized on a grand scale. Germany was the first state to adopt the time changes, to reduce artificial lighting and thereby save coal for the war effort. Friends and foes soon followed suit. In the U.S. a federal law standardized the yearly start and end of daylight saving time in 1918-for the states that ch