Mother's Day is a time of memory and celebration for Mom. It is a time of breakfast in bed and family gatherings.

The earliest Mother's Day celebrations came from the spring celebrations of old Greece. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called “Mothering Sunday”.

During this time many of the poor in England worked as servants for the rich. As they worked far away from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers(雇主). On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers.

In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe as a day offered to peace. Ms. Howe would hold Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass every year.

In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a movement to set a national Mother's Day, Ms. Jarvis asked her mother's church(教堂)in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary(周年纪念) of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.

While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year,there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.

1.What does mother do on Mother’s Day from the first Paragraph?

A. Mother needn't make breakfast.

B. Mother should make breakfast.

C. Family members may stay out.

D. Mother usually gets ready for dinner.

2.When did the earliest Mother’s Day begin?

A. The United States. B. Denmark.

C. Finland. D. Old Greece.

3.When did Jarvis’s mother die?

A. 1872. B. 1871. C. 1907. D. 1905.

4.Where would they live as the servants worked far away their home?

A. At their own houses.

B. At their employers' houses.

C. In their friends' houses.

D. In the hotel.

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Jia Meng used to keep a diary in Chinese.But one year ago, the 14?year?old girl 1. Hei Longjiang began to write her diary in English, because Jia found her mother was reading her diary secretly.She changed the language 2. her mother can't read English.“It's 3. killing two birds with one stone.” said Jia, “My privacy (隐私) becomes safe and my English improves 4. lot.”

Jia's mother is not the only mom who reads her child's diary.Recently, Renmin University of China had a national survey among over 23,000 parents.The results show 5. 40% of parents read their children's secrets.That's why, like Jia, many teenagers try to find ways to 6. their privacy.

Wu Lei, 15, of Shanxi, keeps a diary, 7..But he doesn't write it on paper.He writes online which he thinks is perfectly safe because his parents “know nothing about the Internet”.

Lu Huan, 13, of Guangdong, said her parents always secretly listened to the talk between 8. friends and her on the telephone in their room.To solve this problem, Lu asked her parents to buy her a mobile phone.

“Parents want to know what is going on in their children's lives,” said Shao Xiazhen, a teenage expert in Beijing. “But sometimes they go about it the wrong way.” Shao suggested to teenagers that instead 9. hiding their secrets, talking to parents is a better solution. “If your parents know that you are safe, they'll let you 10. your secrets.”

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