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    May Day, the first day of May, is celebrated as a spring festival in many countries. It marks the approach of summer.

    The English developed their May Day festivals from the Roman festival called Floralia. In the festival of Floralia, the Romans gathered flowers to honor the goddess of spring. Flora. In the Middle Ages, May Day became the favorite holiday of many English villages. People gathered flowers to decorate their homes and churches, sang spring songs and chose a king and a queen of May. Villagers danced around a tall pole fixed upright in the ground, called a maypole, each holding the end of a ribbon attached to the top of the pole. They tied the ribbons around the pole until it was covered with bright colors. They collected dew (露水) on May Day morning and washed their faces with it because they believed that the dew on the day had the magic power to regain youth.

    Nowadays in Britain people no longer attach great importance to the day, but in some towns and villages people still celebrate it by choosing the May Queen and dancing around the maypole. May Queen is a girl selected as being the most beautiful on May Day. She is usually crowned with flowers and often driven in procession through the street. In the United States, the day has never been celebrated with the same enthusiasm as in Britain.

    But in many American towns and cities, children celebrate the day with dancing and singing. They often gather flowers in handmade paper baskets and hang them on the doorknobs of homes of friends' and neighbors' on May Day morning. At May Day parties, children select May Queens, dance around the maypole, and sing May Day songs.

21. What do we know about the May Day in Britain in the Middle Ages?

  A. People wore bright colours.         

  B. People celebrated it with enthusiasm.

  C. People presented flowers to the goddess of spring.

  D. People stayed at home instead of going to churches.

22. Why did people wash their faces with dew on May Day?

  A. To bring good luck.                      B. To become prettier. 

  C. To get magic power.                      D. To get young again.

23. Paragraph 3 is mainly developed______.

  A. by comparison            B. by space     C. by process       D. by classification

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