Your mother makes your meals. She helps you with your homework. If you get sick, she stays with you all day and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Your Mother is always there for you. That's why there is a special day for the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (world) mothers. This year it was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 10th.

    Mother's Day became a modern holiday about 100 years{#blank#}4{#/blank#} in the US. A woman called Anna Jarvis and her mother, Anna Reese Jarvis, were{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(live) in a poor town. They worked hard to make the town{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (well). Jarvis' mother died on Wednesday，May 14, 1905. Their church hold a Mother's Day to thank {#blank#}7{#/blank#} for the help she gave the town three years later.

    Today, people in more than forty{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(country) celebrate the day. They give their mothers carnations (康乃馨)and other presents.. In the language {#blank#}9{#/blank#} flowers, carnations mean happiness,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (sweet) and love.

    There is a nice family living in Valladolid, a beautiful city in Spain.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}father, Jose Garcia, is a tall and friendly man. He{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(work) in a famous company. He married Teresa, a{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(beauty) woman, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}dark eyes and light hair. She is a {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(teach) of a primary school. Jose and Teresa have three{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(child): Susan, Rebecca and Juan. The{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(old), Susan, is 24 years old. She's a doctor and busy with her work every day. She{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(usual) goes to work at 8 a.m. and comes home after 7p.m. Rebecca, a beautiful girl with big dark eyes, is 19 years old and{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(study)Chinese in the Canary Islands. Juan, a naughty 11-year-oldboy, dreams of{#blank#}10{#/blank#}a great football player. They are a happy family.