Father’s Day has a very short history. It was started because there was a Mother’s Day, and just because some Americans thought that if we had a Mother’s Day, we should also have a Father’s Day. Father’s Day has become important in North America. And businesses found it was a good way to get people to buy a present for their father from their shops.

By the way, very few countries have a Father’s Day, though some have a Children’s Day, or a special day for boys and another for girls. More and more countries are having Mother’s Day, so maybe Father’s Day will also become popular before too long. Now, what do people in North America do on Father’s Day? The newspapers, radios, and TV tell children what they should do — buy, buy, buy, buy, buy a Father’s Day present for your father. They even tell a wife to buy, buy, buy, and buy a Father’s Day present — not for her father but for her husband, even if he is not yet a father. And they tell grandchildren to buy, buy, buy, and buy a Father’s Day present for their grandfathers.

The important thing to remember about Father’s Day is that American children can show their love to their fathers in a more open way.

1.Father’s Day was started just because _______________.

2.The word “special” in the second paragraph means ________________________.

3.In America, people have a Father’s Day to ________________________.

4.On Father’s Day, businesses always want ________________________.

5.It can be learned from the passage that ________________________.

I have two cats named Mars and Venus．Get it? My niece，Beth，thought of the names. They are so cute．Mars is bigger and Venus has long curly, fur．

They are such great company! They are curious(好奇)about everything except for the cat window seat．My two furry friends have visited almost every place in the house.

Until I got Mars and Venus 1 was having terrible problems with insomnia．1 would go to bed at midnight and lie there until 4 or sometimes even 5 in the morning．I was walking around during the nighttime，and couldn′t seem to find a way to get to sleep．After one night of galloping from one end often house to the other, Mars and Venus moved in and when I go to bed，they do，too．

At midnight．I lie down in my warm bed, Mars finds his place on the pillow next to me and  then Venus curls up so that she is touching Mars．They sleep all through the night…and guess what．SO do I!I fall asleep almost immediately．

    Now with two little balls of fur next to me，I sleep beautifully．

任务一：下列4个单词在短文中是划线词，请选择与其意思相符的英文释义。

1．Company        2．Furry         3．Insomnia        4.pillow           

  A．covered with fur            B．something you put your head on when sleeping

  C．friend you spend time with  D．inability to sleep

任务二：根据短文内容回答问题。

5．Where don′t the cats like to go?

6．Why is the writer able to sleep well at night?

任务三：把下面句子译成汉语。

7．Until I got Mars and Venus 1 was having terrible problems with insomnia.

A. 根据首字母提示和汉语提示写出单词。（10分）

Mr Smith usually gets up late on the w     1.    . After he gets d    2.   ,

he e   3.    for an hour. He thinks it’s very     4.      （重要的）to do sports. Then he has breakfast      5.     (迅速地). He likes talking with other p   6.     , so he often goes to the park to talk with his friends in the afternoon. But sometimes he has to go to the hospital, because he has some bad    7.   （牙齿）in his mouth. It’s t   8.   (非常讨厌的)!  Mr Smith likes singing, too. He wants to be a     9.  （音乐家）. He hopes his dream can come t  10. one day.