课时提能练(二十) 必修5 Module 4 Carnival
(限时：35分钟)
(对应学生用书第351页)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
(2018·合肥市教学质检)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 festival 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
