Valentine’s Day may come from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia.
36 the fierce wolves roamed nearby, the old Romans called
37 the god Lupercus to help them. A festival in his
38 was held on February 15th. On the eve of the festival the
39 of the girls were written on
40 of paper and placed in jars. Each young man
41 a slip. The girl whose name was 42 was to be his sweetheart for the year.
Legend
43 it that the holiday became Valentine’s Day
44 a Roman bishop named Valentine. Emperor Claudius II 45 the Roman soldiers NOT to marry or become engaged. Claudius felt married soldiers would
46 stay home than fight. When Valentine
47 the Emperor and secretly married the young couples, he was put to death on February 14th, the
48 of Lupercalia. After his death, Valentine became a
49 . Christian bishop moved the holiday from the 15th to the 14th—Valentine’s Day. Now the holiday honors Valentine
50 of Lupercus.
Valentine’s Day has become a major
51 of love and romance in the modern world. The ancient god Cupid and his
52 into a lover’s heart may still be used to
53 falling in love or being in love. But we also use cards and gifts, such as flowers or jewelry, to do this.
54 to give flower to a wife or sweetheart on Valentine’s Day can sometimes be as
55 as forgetting a birthday or a wedding anniversary.
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| 小题3: | | A．honor | B．belief | C．hand | D．way |
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| 小题4: | | A．problems | B．secrets | C．names | D．intentions |
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| 小题5: | | A．rolls | B．piles | C．works | D．slips |
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| 小题6: | | A．cast | B．caught | C．drew | D．found |
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| 小题7: | | A．given | B．chosen | C．elected | D．delivered |
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| 小题8: | | A．tells | B．means | C．makes | D．has |
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| 小题10: | | A．ordered | B．appealed | C．imagined | D．believed |
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| 小题11: | | A．other | B．simply | C．rather | D．all |
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| 小题12: | | A．disliked | B．resisted | C．defeated | D．dishonored |
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| 小题13: | | A．celebration | B．arrangement | C．feast | D．eve |
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| 小题14: | | A．goat | B．saint | C．model | D．weapon |
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| 小题15: | | A．because | B．made | C．instead | D．learnt |
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| 小题16: | | A．part | B．representative | C．judgment | D．symbol |
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| 小题17: | | A．story | B．wander | C．arrow | D．play |
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| 小题18: | | A．describe | B．require | C．demand | D．alarm |
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| 小题19: | | A．Keeping | B．Disapproving | C．Supporting | D．Forgetting |
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| 小题20: | | A．constructive | B．damaging | C．strengthening | D．responding |
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