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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在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，词首字母已给。Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of America, was born in a poor family. A 【小题1】 a little kid, he did a lot of housework every day. And sometimes he had to h【小题2】 his parents on the farm. But when he was free, he enjoyed reading books very much.
One day, he b【小题3】 a book from his neighbor. He loved the book so much that he kept reading it until 12 o’clock at night. When he went to sleep, he put the book in the gap (裂缝) of the wall. It rained heavily that night. When little Lincoln woke up the next morning, he found that the book was all w 【小题4】.
Lincoln carried the book to the owner. He felt very s 【小题5】and nervous. “What’s wrong with my book? It can’t be read a【小题6】!” the neighbor said. He asked Lincoln to pay for a new book. Little Lincoln had no money, and he didn’t want to ask his parents for money to pay his neighbor. “Let me work for you to pay for a new book, please!” Lincoln asked. He cut grass in the neighbor’s garden for three days to pay for the book.
It doesn’t matter if you make a m 【小题7】, but you should be responsible (负责的) for it.

根据短文内容．回答下列问题。
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 idea 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 Washington. 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?
【小题1】What do the young people usually do to celebrate Father’ s Day in China?
                                                             
【小题2】Was Mrs Dodd’ s life hard when she was young?
                                                             
【小题3】Why did Mrs Dodd warn to have Father’ s Day?
                                                             
【小题4】Did Mrs Dodd write a letter to a church or to the president?
                                                             
【小题5】When was Father’s Day celebrated for the first time in America?
                                                             

All big cities are quite similar. Living in a modern Asian city isn’t very different from living in an American city. 1.______

In many parts of the world, farmers and their families live in villages or towns. In the United States, however, each farm family lives on its own fields, often beyond (在……之外) the sight of any neighbors. Instead of traveling from the village to the fields every morning, American farmers stay on their land the whole week. 2.______ Their children ride on buses to large schools for all the farm families living in the area. In some areas, there are small schools serving a few farm families, and the children walk to school. Of course life keeps changing for everyone, including farmers. 3.______ And there are also modern machines for farming. All of these have changed the farm life.

4.______ Farmers usually had to deal with their own problems, instead of getting help from others. They learned to try new ways, and to trust their own ideas rather than (而不) followed the old ways.

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A. Today there are cars, good roads, radios and television sets.

B. The same can not be said about living on farms, however.

C. Many years ago, however, farming in America was often a lonely way of living.

D. They travel to the nearest town on Saturdays for shopping or on Sundays for church.

5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Life in the world also keeps changing.

B. Life in the United States keeps changing.

C. American farmers like their old ways.

D. American farmers have changed their lives.