Several different stories are told about the origin（由来） of Saint Valentine's Day（情人节）. One legend(传奇) dates as far back as the clays of the Roman Empire, according to the story, Claudius, the Emperor of Rome, wanted to increase the size of the army. He knew that it would be easier to get young man who were not married to join. Therefore he made a rule that no young man could marry until he had served a certain number of years in the army.
A priest（牧师） named Valentine broke the rule and secretly married a great many young people. Finally, Claudius found out about Valentine and put the priest in prison, where he remained until his death on February 14.
After his death, Valentine was made a saint, and the day of his death was named Saint Valentine's Day. It became the custom for lovers to send each other message on this day. Now Saint Valentine's Day is a time for people to send one another greeting of many kinds.
February 14, Valentine's Day, is a sweethearts' day, on which people in love with each other express their tender emotions. People sometimes put their love message in a heart-shaped box of chocolates, or a bunch of flowers tied with red ribbons. Words of letters may be written on the flower covered card, or something else. Whatever the form may be, the message is almost the same "will you be my Valentine?"
1.Valentine was put in prison because ________.
A. he secretly got married
B. he didn't serve in the army
C. he married many young people secretly
D. he broke the laws
2.According to the rule ________.
A. no young men could get married unless they were old enough
B. young men could marry if they served in the army for several years
C. no one could get married without the emperor's permission
D. young could marry only in the army
3.This passage mainly tells us about _________.
A. how Valentine died
B. the Emperor of Rome
C. how Valentine's Day is celebrated
D. the origin of Valentine's Day
4.February 14 is chosen Valentine's Day because __________.
A. lovers express their tender emotions on this day
B. people want to remember Valentine
C. people send one another greetings of many kinds on this day
D. people want to fix a date for lovers to express their emotions
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1 221 B .C. the first Empersor, Shi Huang- Di 2 to build a great wall right 3 the north of his empire. He wanted 4 the fierce tribes (部落) of Huns and Tartars (鞑靼) 5 his country. He decided to make a small 6 across Tibet (西藏) 7 the sea. It took several years 8 .
The Great Wall ran across wild field, 9 the mountains, 10 the valleys. It was built 11 stone and earth.
All the Emperor's builders were 12 men, often prisoners 13 war. Thousands of workers 14 and were buried 15 the earth 16 the wall. Many of them 17 came back again.
The Great Wall 18 19 the centuries. And much of 20 still standing today.
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Soccer is played by millions of people all over the world, but there have only been a few players who were really great．[1]________
Firstly, these players came from places that have had famous stars in the past－the players that a young boy can look up to and try to imitate．[2]________ There has never been a great national team, or a really great player, from North America or from Asia．
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Finally, many great players came from the same kind of neighborhood(地方), a poor, crowded area where a boy’s dream is not to become a doctor, lawyer, or businessman, but to become a rich, famous athlete or entertainer(演员)．[4]________．And George Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing(使球跳)the ball off a wall in the slums(贫民窟)of Belfast．
All great players have a lot in common, but that doesn’t explain why they are great．Hundreds of boys played in those Brazilian streets, but only one became Pele．[5]________
A．For example, Liverpool, which produced the Beatles, had one of the best English soccer teams in recent years．Pele practiced in the street with a “ball” made of rags(破布)．
B．Secondly, all these players have had years of practice in this game．Alfredo Di Stefano was the son of a soccer player, as was Pele．Most players begin playing the game at the age of three or four．
C．How did these players get that way, was it through training and practice, or were great players “born, not made”?
D．Those players all had very hard, or rather painful time practicing in an unknown team, even alone．
E．The greatest players are born with unique(独一无二的)quality that sets them apart from all the others．
F．In the history of soccer, only six countries have ever won the World Cup, three from South America and three from Western Europe．
G．There have been several countries from North America and Europe, which have ever won the World Cup．
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I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a “complicated idea” until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)
There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the “hundred most important books of Western Civilization.” “More than anything else in my life,” the professor told the reporter with finality(firmly) , “these books have made me all that I am.” That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by the time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list
68. On hearing the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought _______.
A. one must read as many books as possible
B. a student should not have a complicated idea
C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books
D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read
69. While at high school, the writer _______.
A. had plans for reading B. learned to educate himself
C. only read books over 100 pages D. read only one book several times
70. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _______.
A. explain why it was included in the list
B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list
C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand
D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word
71 The writer provides two book lists to _______.
A. show how he developed his point of view
B. tell his reading experience at high school
C. introduce the two persons' reading methods
D. explain that he read many books at high school
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