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姓名：__________班级：__________考号：__________ 、完形填空 阅读下面短文。从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Father’s Day Father’s Day is a fairly new celebration in the British calendar compared with Mother’s Day, which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the UK for a very long time. Father’s Day was first celebrated by Americans (1) it was inspired by the actions of a man named William Smart. He was a veteran of the US Civil War and his wife (2) away giving birth to their sixth child. He (3) six children alone without remarrying, which was undoubtedly (4) back in those days. His daughter, Sonora Dodd, (5) when she was an adult what her father had sacrificed for his (6) . It was in the early 1900s and she was actually (7) one day, listening to a sermon on (8). She thought there should (9) be a Father’s Day celebration. And so the (10) was born, on the third Sunday every June, close to the anniversary of Sonora’s father’s death. Britain took the idea of Father’s Day from the American celebration and it has been celebrated (11) since the 1970s. Father’s Day is never quite such a big commercial event (12) Mother’ s Day is, probably because it hasn’t been in (13) for so long. But what do British people do for Father’s Day? Well, most people would buy their fathers a card. The card would probably have nice message in it (14) what a great Dad their father is. Some people do buy presents as well. | 
