阅读下面短文，把A～D四个句子填入文中空缺处（1-4），使短文内容完整正确，然后完成第5题。
Almost all people like flowers. Some people like flowers because of their smells, shapes, colors and so on.
1._______ Flowers have their own language. For example, red roses mean "love" and sunflowers mean "loyalty
(忠诚)". So people in more than 100 countries have chosen their own national flowers which say something
about their countries' spirit (精神). In 1994, China talked about choosing a national flower. 2._______ They
couldn't agree with each other. So it has not been decided yet.
People like to buy different flowers in different seasons. Where do all the beautiful flowers in shops come
from? They may come from far away, so their price is higher.
a. Farmers grow flowers in their fields.
b. Planes or trains or buses take the flowers to different places.
c. Flower shopkeepers buy flowers from the flower markets. They look at the flowers and throw away the
broken or bad ones. They cut the flowers to make them more beautiful.
d. You go to buy the flowers in the shops. 3.________: the farmer, the driver of the plane or train or bus, the
seller in the flower market and the flower shopkeeper.
So you'd better keep your flowers from far away for a long time. But how? Why not dry them? It's easy!
Sand drying is a way. Dry, clean sand is one of the oldest things for drying flowers. And it's one of the
cheapest.
·Fill a box half-way with sand.
·Put the flowers on top of the sand.
·Put the box in a warm, dry place.
4._________
··Take them out and they will be dry.
A. Some people liked the peony (牡丹花) but others liked the plum blossom (梅花).
B. Leave the flowers there for one to three weeks.
C. When you buy a flower, you're paying lots of people
D. Others like flowers because they think different flowers mean different things
5. The Chinese national flower has not been decided because _______. [ ]
A. China hasn't talked about choosing one
B. No flower can show China's spirit
C. Nobody agrees to choose the national flower
D. People can't agree to choose the same flower
