Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from country to country: candles, cakes, and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:

Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up.

India Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthday children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolates to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this.

 

Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh birthdays for girls and the fifth for boys.

Holland The birthday child receives an  especially large present. The family also put flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful.

When someone is having a birthday in Denmark, you can see_______outside the window.

A．flowers	B．presents
C．a flag	D．a chair

In________flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child.

A．Japan	B．Denmark
C．India.	D．Holland

In________, only birthday children wear colored clothes to school.

A．India	B．Holland
C．Denmark	D．Japan

In Japan, the birthday is more important for boys when they are_________.

A．15

B．7

C．5

D．3

The passage is mainly about___________.

A．similar ways of celebrating birthdays in some countries.

B．different ways of celebrating birthdays in some countries.

C．children’s birthdays in western countries.

D．The importance of children’s birthdays.