Question

【题目】阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
What do you often do for your father on Father's Day? Father Day has a very 1 history and it became a state festival in 1972 in America. Because some Americans thought that if we had a Mother's Day, we should also have a Father's Day.
Father's Day is becoming very 2 in North America. People there do different kinds of things for their fathers on that day. And businessmen find it is a good way to make people buy presents for their fathers from their 3.
Except(除…以外)America, very 4countries have a Father's Day, though some have a Children's Day, or a 5 day for boys or for boys and girls. More and more countries are having Mother's Day, 6 maybe Father's Day will become popular soon.
Now what are people in North America doing on Father's Day? The newspapers, radios, and TV 7 children what they should do -buy, buy, buy Father's Day present for your father. They even want the wife to buy a Father's Day present not for her father but for her 8.
The presents they buy for their dads are often not very9, as children don't have much money. But the important thing to remember about Father's Day is that American children can show their 10 to their fathers on that day.
（1）A.long B.light C.old D.short
（2）A.happy B.important C.interesting D.easy
（3）A.shops B.houses C.offices D.schools
（4）A.little B.few C.many D.much
（5）A.busy B.ready C.special D.careful
（6）A.but B.if C.so D.or
（7）A.speak B.say C.talk D.tell
（8）A.husband B.son C.brother D.cousin
（9）A.beautiful B.expensive C.different D.heavy
（10）A.money B.promise C.love D.life

Answer 1

【答案】（1）、D
（2）、B
（3）、A
（4）、B
（5）、C
（6）、C
（7）、D
（8）、A
（9）、B
（10）、C

【解析】本文介绍了父亲节的由来以及在世界各地的人们是怎样过父亲节的。在美国，给父亲购买礼物已成为一种时尚。
（1）根据下句and it became a state festival in 1972 in America可知父亲节成为国家的节日时间很短。所以答案是D。
（2）根据下句People there do different kinds of things for their fathers on that day可知，在美国父亲节变得越来越重要。重要的是important。所以答案是B。
（3）句意：商人们发现让人们在父亲节这天到他们的商店里买东西是很好的方法。商店是shop。所以答案是A。
（4）根据后文叙述可知：除美国外，几乎没有国家过父亲节。国家是可数名词，用few修饰。所以答案是B。
（5）句意：或者有特殊的一天为男孩子们或男孩女孩子们。特殊的是special。所以答案是C。
（6）前后句是顺承关系，可用so连接。所以答案是C。
（7）句意：报纸，电台和电视告诉孩子们应该做什么。告诉是tell。所以答案是D。
（8）句意：他们甚至想让妻子们去买东西，不是给她们的父亲，而是给她们的丈夫。所以答案是A。
（9）根据as children don't have much money可知，孩子们买给父亲的礼物都不贵。所以答案是B。
（10）但是最重要的是让孩子们记住在父亲节这天展示他们对父亲的爱。爱是love。所以答案是C。