任务型阅读,(10分)
More and more young people from China begin to
celebrate(庆祝)Father’s Day. They send fathers presents,
or invite them for a nice dinner. But do you know how Father’s Day started?
While Mrs Dodd, from America, was listening to a talk
about Mother’s Day in a church in 1909, she had an ides of having Father’s Day
to honor(纪念)her father, William Smart. Mr Smart used to
be a soldier. His wife died when she gave birth to her sixth child. Mr Smart
had to raise his six children alone. They lived a hard life. After Mrs Dodd
grew up, she wanted to thank her father for what he had done for them. She
wrote a letter to a church and asked for the third Sunday in June to be
Father’s Day. The church agreed with her.
The first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19th,
1910 in Washing ton. Children made special desserts and did other things to
make their fathers happy. In 1924, President(总统)Calvin
Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father’s Day. People all over the
country began to celebrate Father’s Day. Finally, in 1966, President Lyndon
Johnson made the third Sunday in June Father’s Day.
This year, Father’s Day was on June 17th. What did you
do for your father?
根据短文内容,回答下列问题。(10分)
1.What do the young people usually do to celebrate
Father’s Day in China?
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2.Was Mrs. Dodd’s life hard when she was young?
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3.Why did Mrs. Dodd want to have Father’s Day?
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4. Did Mrs. Dodd write a letter to a church or to the
president?
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5. When was Father’s Day celebrated for the first time
in America?
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