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Mother's Day is celebrated in the USA． It's also a holiday in some other countries. It is on the second Sunday in May. It is a day to thank mothers. On that day mothers usually receive flowers and cards. On the cards, children will write Thanks, Mom, To the best mother in the world. Best wishes for Mother's day and so on.
When does the idea for the holiday come from? We should thank Miss Anna M. Jarvis. She brought up the idea of having such a day. She lived in West Virginia． Her mother died on May 9, 1905.
She had a deep love for her mother. She wrote letters to some important persons. In her letters she asked them to decide a day for all mothers, Then Mother's Day was made on the second Sunday in May by the USA, in 1119.
On Mother's Day, children give presents to their mothers or the whole family go out and try to do something nice for their mothers.
(1)Miss Anna M. Jarvis was an English woman.
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(2)She loved her mother very much.
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(3)Her mother died on May 9,1905.
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(4)She asked some American important persons to decide a day for all mother.
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(5)Mother's Day was made on the second Sunday in May by the US in 1913.
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(6)On Mother's Day, children give their mothers some presents to thank their mother.
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科目：初中英语 来源：贵州遵义市2011年初中毕业生学业(升学)统一考试英语试题卷 题型：051
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In the 1930s a young traveler was climbing the French Alps(法国阿尔卑斯山)．He arrived at big piece of land without living things．It was ugly．It was the kind of place you hurry away from．
Then, suddenly, the young traveler stopped on the way．In the middle of this large land there was an old man．On his back was a bag of seeds．In his land was an iron pipe(铁管)．
The man used the iron pipe to make a hole in the ground．Then from the bag he took a seed and put it in the hole．He did this again and again．
Later the old man told the traveler, “I've planted over 100, 00 seeds．Perhaps only a tenth of them will grow．”
The old man's wife and son had died, and this was how he chose to spend his final years．
“I want to do something useful, ”he said．
(1)二十年以后那个年轻的游客已不再年轻。 He retutned to the place．What he saw amazed him．He could mot believe his eyes．The land was covered with a beautiful forest two miles wide and five miles long．Birds were singing, animals were playing, and wild flowers were here and there．
(2)The traveler stood there remembering the lifeless picture of the place that it once was．A beautiful forest stood there now, all because someone cared．
1．Why did the ola man plant seeds?
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2．How many seeds did the old man think could grow, all of them or only some?
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3．What amazed the young traveler when he returned to the place?
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4．将短文中画线句子(1)翻译成英语。
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5．将短文中画线句子(2)翻译成汉语。
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科目：初中英语 来源：三点一测丛书八年级英语上 题型：050
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Thomas EdisonThomas Edison was a famous American scientist. He was born in 1874. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher a lot of strange questions. Most of them had thing to do with his lessons. The teacher thought the boy was not bright and was mot worth teaching. When he told this to Edison's mother, she took her son out of school. As she had been a teacher, she taught him herself. The boy read a lot. Soon he became very interested in science. At the age of ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab for himself. Ever since then, he had never stopped searching(v.寻找) for new and better ways to do things.
1．Edison was born in the ________ century.
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2．While he was in school, Edison ________.
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A．studied his lessons very hard
B．was often late for school
C．liked to ask questions
D．was not bright enough to study
3．Edison learned more from ________.
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4．Young Edison was interested in ________.
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5．He was always searching far new and better ways to do things after he ________.
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