[简答题]Armistice Day

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What day will that day be

[简答题] Buy Nothing Day The day after Thanksgiving, all the world (at least in the US) goes shopping. In America this is the biggest shopping day in the entire year, known as Black Friday, which sounds dire, but evidently derives from the fact that storekeepers lose money all year and this is the first day in which they finally get into the black which means to make money. Some stores also call it Green Friday. It’’s the biggest day of the year for retailers, when shopkeeper’’s can measure what their take is going to be this year, and the holiday spirit flows as fast as the cash registers can ring it up. Gifts, decorations, candy and magazines disappear quickly, and woe to the retailer who doesn’’t have as much in stock as the consumers want. "Buy it now" is the phrase of the day-and people have been doing just that for years, egged on by the industry that begins advertising and decorating earlier and more elaborately each year. This is about waste,

[填空题]Life on earth depends on the sun. Day after day we see its light and feel its (36) , but we do not often know or (37) the birth or the beginning of their (38) . Yet there are amount of (39) things about the sun. One is its distance from the earth. This is about ninety-three (40) miles. It is to us, a long distance. A (41) of this distance, even if it could be made, would take (42) hundred years even in the (43) rocket.
The sun makes us feel heat, even at a distance of ninety-three million miles. This is not surprising. (44) . But we receive only a small part of this heat. The total heat of the sun could melt a column of ice two and a quarter miles thick and ninety-three million miles high in one second.
The brightness of the sun is equally astonishing. As we said earlier, we receive only a very small part of the sun’s heat. (45) This is sufficient for the growth of t

[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. Today, Americans cele

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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
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

[填空题]A—New Year’s Day
B—International Women’s Day
C—Valentine’s Day
D—World Consumer Right Day
E—World Forest Day
F—World Water Day
G—April Fools’ Day
H—World Health Day
I—International Labor Day
J—International Youth Day
K—Teachers’ Day
L—Christmas Day
M—Mother’s Day
N—Father’s Day
O—The Spring Festival
P—Thanksgiving Day

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[单项选择]What day is Halloween
A. December 31st.
B. October 31st.
C. November 4th.
D. November 1st.

[填空题]Day and day they become my good friends. Day and day they become very good friends ______.

[填空题]Day and day they become my good friends.
Day and day they become very good friends ______.

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Thanksgiving Day
The American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year, a special dinner was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The people who had settled there had left England because they were forbidden to keep their religious belief. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in sailing across the ocean. The ship which carried them was called "the Mayflower". The North Atlantic was hard to travel. There were bad storms and huge waves. With the help of the Indians, they learned to live in the new land. These Puritans, as they were called, had much to be thankful for. They could enjoy religious freedom. They learned how to grow their crops in accordance with the climate and soil. Now when they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner. They also wanted to pray God for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women and
A. 100 years old
B. 200 years old
C. 300 years old
D. 400 years old