题目内容
Midsummer was the festival throughout most of England, most of Scotland, Shetland Islands, and the Orkneys. Fires, dancing, games, and various shenanigans（胡闹）were the general rule on this “longest day of the year”. But the festival has lost some of its color in the passing centuries.
By the 1680s, British folklorist（民俗学家）John Aubrey reported that “still in many places, they make fires on the hills: but the Civil War in Britain in the 1640s have put all these customs quite out of fashion”.
Thousands of years ago, builders of Stonehenge（巨石阵）no doubt celebrated their own midsummer festival among the stones. More recently a British group called the Ancient Order of Druids, founded in 178l by Hurle, suggested celebrating the festival on June 21 every year at the site. In the later years this day attracted huge crowds. Bread and wine, candles, bells, incense （熏香）, and priests（神甫）in white and purple shared wine from a silver cup as the midsummer sun shone across the old stones. It remained a local festival for a long time in history. In the mid-1980s, vandalism（故意破坏艺术的行为）and unruly people imperiled （危害）the festival's future.
(1)Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
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(2)What can we learn about the festival?
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A．It is no longer celebrated on earth.
B．It used to be a festival celebrated worldwide.
C．It is the longest day of the year.
D．It changed its nature in the Civil War.
(3)Stonehenge is a place ________.
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A．where Midsummer was first celebrated
B．where there are old stone figures
C．where the Ancient Order of Druids was set up
D．where Midsummer is celebrated
(4)The underlined word“unruly”means ________.
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