Few countries ________ the independence of th...

Few countries ________ the independence of that country.

A．realize            B．recognize         C．receive           D．announce

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Few countries ________ the independence of that country.

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Father’s Day

The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.

However, the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a selfless and loving man. Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spikane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.

In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge declared the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Roses are the Father’s Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.

When children can’t visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental. Most greeting cards are too special so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.

1.At first, Father’s Day was fixed on June 19th because ______.

A. Sonora honored her father on her father’s birthday

B. Sonora’s birthday was June 19

C. it was decided by the president at that time

D. her mother died on June 19

2.How many years has passed before Father’s Day became an official day since the father’s day was celebrated?

A. 4　　　 B. 10　　　　 C. 14　　　 D. 24

3.According to the passage, on Father’s Day,　 ______.

A. people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers

B. only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers

C. children must go home to honor their fathers

D. fathers are often honored in different ways

4.According to the passage, we can infer that Henry Jackson Smart ______.

A. was very kind to anyone

B. did a lot for his daughter

C. was the first father honored in 1924

D. always helped others by giving money

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Mr. White as well as his friends ________ a number of countries in the past few years.

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________ as one, the people of that country eventually drove the invaders (侵略者)out of their country.

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____ were given to those foreigners who helped the country ___ independence from Britain.

A．Rewards; get                           B．Awards; be

C．Prizes; take                            D．Awards; gain

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Ren Xue'an, a marketing director of CCTV, says that the country’s TV producers need to what is truly valuable.

A. insist looking for　　 B. insist on looking for

C. insist on to look for　　 D. insist to look for

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There are a number of special days of the year that are celebrated in different countries. The origins of most of the days are unknown. They were certainly not created by individual people. Other days, however, especially those celebrated in western countries, often owe their origins to a particular person. One of the most popular of these, even though it is fairly recent, is Mother’s Day. Mothers have always been highly regarded in all cultures. The ancient Romans had a festival known as Hilaria, during which children took presents to the temple of the “Mother of the Gods”. The Christian Church adopted this idea and called it Mothering Sunday. However, over the years this custom was gradually forgotten and almost disappeared by the end of the 19th century.

Born in 1864 in Virginia, USA, Anna Jarvis was a school teacher and believed children should show gratitude to their mothers for all their love and care. Encouraged by a friend, she wrote to thousands of important people—politicians, churchmen, doctors, city officials—and asked them to support her idea: a special day of the year for thanking mothers.

In 1910 the Governor of West Virginia introduced Mother’s Day into the state. The date chosen was May 10—the second Sunday in May, which is still observed in America today. This date was chosen because May 10 was the date on which in 1908 Anna Jarvis’s mother had died. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson made May 10 the official date for Mother’s Day throughout the United States.

Soon there was a Mother’s Day International Association and the custom began to be adopted in many countries of the world.

Anna Jarvis, a sad and disillusioned（失望的） woman, died in 1948. The custom she had worked so hard to establish and which had become almost universal had lost its original purpose. It had been taken over by business. Like Christmas, the giving of presents and the sending of cards had become a multi-million-dollar industry.

1.The story is about________.

2.Anna Jarvis wanted to ________.

3.May 10 became the date for Mother’s Day because ________.

4.Unfortunately, Anna Jarvis was not happy with Mother’s Day when she died because________.

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It is that time of the year again. Up and down the country, thousands of students stay in the library, attempting to cram(死记硬背)the information necessary to get through finals. I am one of them — a Cambridge finalist, attempting to deal with the Oxbridge stress in the only way I know: caffeine hits and reclusion(遁生活) Whether you love or hate Oxbridge, the fact that these two universities provide unique learning environments is something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, students have access to some of the best education in the world; on the other hand, the pressure that comes with this can prove damaging to them and can't be swept under the carpet for they have to face it eventually.

Many Cambridge students find themselves trapped in a pressure of expectation, whether this comes from their supervisors or tutors, their director of studies or even from themselves. The drive towards achievement is either the key to success or to possible serious personal issues, as Mark Phippen, head of the University of Cambridge's Counseling Service said, ''There are plenty of perfectionists in Cambridge, but it can work two ways: it can push them to accomplish and to achieve, or it can get out of hand, disabling them. ''

Many students say that they can’t handle it any more while working in certain libraries which are filled with other students hard at work. The competition and paranoia(疑)are more common than what we realize or question: you can feel as if you are being judged for how much time you spend on Facebook or YouTube, or how little time you spend reading.

Too many students feel almost frustrated by the pressure to achieve but feel unable to speak about it. As everyone seems to be coping, they must also pretend to cope too. The only thing students have: tutors and supervisors regularly encourage students to avoid extracurricular activities, urging them to focus on their studies to such an extent that many find it hard to handle it. One current Cambridge tutor has been known for checking up on the activities of students involved in extracurricular theatre by searching for them on the camdram.net website, which details who is involved in certain plays each term — just in case it affects the student’s work output.

Problems arise when the pressure produces mental health issues. Problems have been brought to attention in articles primarily from Oxford's Cherwell and Cambridge's The Tab. The attention has made the Cambridge University Student Union set up Students Deserve Better — a campaign to handle complaints about supervisors and tutors lacking the ability to provide proper spiritual support. ''When I told my supervisor about my problems with anxiety and therefore about my worries surrounding the workload she was suggesting, she said that I would probably feel less anxious once the work was done, '' a finalist student called Jane said. ''It shouldn't be an accepted response in one of the world's best universities. Their responses only worsened any feelings I had concerning my final year. ''

Phippen said, ''At this point the exams seem like the most important thing in the world. However, two years down the line you’ll realize that the exams you did at university aren't very important at all, as what then becomes more important is what you have done within those two years afterwards. Finalist exams can become depressing for students studying at any university. All you must remember is that you are not alone and you are good enough, and that a few years down the line, your ability to recount the plots of Euripides' nineteen plays will no longer matter. So why worry? ''

1.The underlined part ''be swept under the carpet'' in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ''______''.

A.be covered up B.be dealt with

C.be given up D.be figured out

2.What's Mark Phippen's attitude towards the pressure put on the students at Oxbridge?

A.Critical. B.Doubtful.

C.Objective. D.Ambiguous.

3.What can we know from Paragraph 4?

A.Extracurricular activities fail to appeal to most students.

B.Some tutors and supervisors push their students too hard.

C.There is a lack of communication between students and their supervisors.

D.Some students don't speak about the pressure because they think they can handle it.

4.What Jane said in Paragraph 5 suggests that she ______ .

A.didn't get her problems across to her supervisor

B.had expected better spiritual guidance from her tutors

C.was dissatisfied with her supervisor's delayed responses

D.was glad that Students Deserve Better was set up to help students like her

5.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A.Oxbridge pressure: the key to students' achievements

B.Oxbridge finals: the toughest exams in the country

C.Oxbridge graduates: the strongest competitors in the job market

D.Oxbridge success: the result of teacher-student interaction

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It is reported that the countries attending the opening ceremony of the London Olympics ______ 229.

A. added to　 　　 B. added up

C. added up to　　 D. add

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