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  3. Some people might think that Father’s Day was established as a holiday to help greeting card companies sell more cards. However，

Some people might think that Father’s Day was established as a holiday to help greeting card companies sell more cards. However，

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问题      Some people might think that Father’s Day was established as a holiday to help greeting card companies sell more cards. However，when Father’s Day was first suggested in the early 1900s，Father’s Day cards hadn’t been invented yet.  
     The idea of celebrating Father’s Day was actually inspired by Mother’s Day. In 1909，Mother’s Day was just becoming very popular in the United States. One day，Sonora Dodd，of Spokane，Washington. was listening to a church talk about setting aside a day to honor one’s mother. It gave her the idea to propose a day to honor fathers，and in particular，her own father-William Jackson Smart.
     Mr. Smart had raised Sonora and her five brothers and sisters all by himself after Sonora’s mother died in childbirth. As an adult，Sonora realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. Her father made all the parental sacrifices. In the daughter’s eves. her father was a courageous，selfless，and loving man.  
     Mrs. Dodd went to her minister and others about having a church service devoted to fathers on June 5. her father’s birthday. That date was too soon for her minister to prepare a service，so he spoke two weeks later on June 19. It took about a year of working with politicians，religious leaders，businessmen and the local Young Men’s Christian Association to bring life to her idea of an annual Father’s Day. Eventually all her hard work paid off. On June 19，1910，the first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane，Washington.  
     In 1972 President Richard Nixon established a permanent national celebration of Father’s Day to be held on the third Sunday in June. Since then，fathers have been honored and recognized by their families throughout the U. S. on that date.  
     Father’s Dav has become a day to not only honor your father，but all men who act as a father figure. Stepfathers，uncles，grandfathers，and adult male friends are all honored on Father’s Day. It’s also another day for greeting card companies and shop owners to celebrate because sales of the most popular gifts for Dad(shirts，ties，and electric shavers)increase considerably.   
The author of the passage seems to believe that______.
选项 A、stepfathers should not be honored on Father’s Day
B、Father’s Day has nothing to do with Mother’s Day
C、Father’s Day started with Mrs. Dodd’s love for her father
D、card companies should not make money on Father’s Day cards
答案C
解析 推断题。题干大意：下列四个选项中，作者认为哪一个是正确的?最后一段提到，父亲节是为了赞美父亲、继父、叔叔等人，且提到，卡片公司的人在这一天也值得高兴，因为卡片的销售量会很大。第二段提到，当Dodd听到一个关于母亲节广播时，她突然有了为父亲庆祝的想法。第二、三段表明，Dodd爱她的父亲，所以想为父亲庆祝生日。因此C项是正确选项。
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