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【題目】根據(jù)短文理解，選擇正確答案。
Valentine's Day, a day traditionally reserved for expressing romantic love, is observed practically all around the world. However, not many people are familiar with Sweetest Day. Actually it is a holiday, especially designed to express love and care for those who were routinely neglected（忽視）by society.
Sweetest Day was the idea of Herbert Birch Kingston, who worked for a company in Cleveland, Ohio. He felt that there were plenty of children, especially orphans and poor kids, who didn't necessarily get the attention they deserved. Thus in 1922, he launched the first Sweetest Day to give out boxes of candy to mainly poor children.
Since the day picked was the third Saturday in October, this became the traditional time to celebrate Sweetest Day. The tradition was so enjoyed that people often looked beyond kindness to treating their own friends or family to treats on Sweetest Day.
In the US, Sweetest Day is celebrated primarily in the Northeastern region of the US, still on the third Saturday of October. Yet news of the tradition, which began nearly 100 years ago, has spread to other parts of the country, especially as people who lived in those areas moved elsewhere. People may distribute candy or small gifts to those in patient homes, hospitals, foster homes, or mental institutions, and they may also treat friends and family to little gifts from the heart.
In keeping with the original tradition, celebrating Sweetest Day should really be most focused on people who ordinarily don't have the good fortune of attention from friends or family, either due to difficult family circumstances or to poverty. This can be a great tradition to start if your community doesn't routinely celebrate the day, and there are many candy manufacturers that are willing to help donate or reduce costs on gifts intended for people in unfortunate circumstances.
（1）The original purpose of Sweetest Day is to ________.
A.provide an occasion to know orphans
B.make those poor children happy
C.make your friends and family happy
D.distribute candy to those lovely children
（2）What do people barely do on Sweetest Day?
A.Buy flowers for your sweetheart.
B.Visit patients who have to be in hospital.
C.Give friends gifts to make them happy.
D.Care for children who lost their parents.
（3）We can learn from the passage that ________.
A.it is vital to contact the candy manufacturers
B.it is necessary to call on friends or families
C.it is important to help those in need
D.it is common to serve your community

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）B
（2）A
（3）C
【解析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了Sweetest Day最初發(fā)明的初衷及人們的具體活動(dòng)，主要是幫助那些需要幫助的人尤其是孩子們，讓他們快樂(lè)。

⑴考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Thus in 1922, he launched the first Sweetest Day to give out boxes of candy to mainly poor children.”可知，Sweetest Day最初的目的是給孩子們尤其是孤兒和窮孩子們禮物讓他們快樂(lè)，故選B。

⑵考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“People may distribute candy or small gifts to those in patient homes, hospitals, foster homes, or mental institutions, and they may also treat friends and family to little gifts from the heart.”可知，人們?cè)赟weetest Day的活動(dòng)沒(méi)有A項(xiàng)，故選A。

⑶考查推理判斷。全文介紹了Sweetest Day的最初發(fā)明的初衷及人們的活動(dòng)，主要是幫助那些需要幫助的人尤其是孩子們，讓他們快樂(lè)。故選C。