Have you got some paper, a pair of scissors and, above all, a desire to decorate your house? Then, we have the perfect holiday artwork for you: Make Star Wars snowflakes (雪花). Remembered as a cherished form of work in classrooms before the holidays, paper snowflakes have drawn many people's attention again.
The designer, Anthony Herrera, just recently released his 2013 collection. "The Star Wars snowflake designs began as just doing designs of characters that I and my daughter wanted to make three years ago," Herrera told us in an email. "The second year I introduced vehicles, and this year I decided to push further by designing battle scenes."
Sometimes, he feels a bit bored with his job. With each year, the designs have got more detailed and various, but the process of creating them remained the same: sketching figures on paper with a pencil until a symmetrical (对称）pattern comes out, then scanning the designs and cut them with scissors. However, he says he has plenty of ideas for new flakes next year, so no two will ever be the same. Hopefully with Star Wars: Episode VII coming in 2015 he'll have even more work in the future.
Check out your favorite finished versions of Herrera’s flakes (from both 2013 and previous years) and download the pictures beneath them and then get down to creating your own work. A warning: Most designs aren't for the casual flake-maker, so patience you must have.
小题1: Making paper snowflakes draws many people's attention probably because ______.
A．it is a traditional form of decoration
B．it is a course of artwork in school
C．it is a way of killing time in holiday
D．it is designed by Anthony Herrera小题2: From the text, we know that Herrera ______.
A．can make snowflakes with his daughter's help
B．made more complicated designs before 2013
C．introduced paper vehicles in 2011
D．will make a great variety of detailed paper flakes小题3: Herrera is fed up with the job sometimes because ______
A．he has to design detailed and different patterns
B．he has to follow the fixed process of paper cutting
C．he spends much time designing, scanning and cutting
D．he has few ideas for what the next designs will be like小题4: By writing the last paragraph, the author tries to ______.
A．offer us more information about Herrera’s paper cutting
B．tell us how to download picture of snowflakes
C．instruct people to be a real creative artist
D．remind us of being patient with Herrera’s designs
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
本文介绍了传统的装饰形式：剪纸。并介绍Anthony Herrera对于这一手工的看法，以及自己的一些做法。
小题1:A
【试题解析】细节题。根据第一段最后2行Remembered as a cherished form of work in classrooms before the holidays, paper snowflakes have drawn many people's attention again.可知paper snowflakes是传统的装饰的形式，所以才会引起人名吗的注意，故A正确。
小题2:D
【试题解析】推理题。根据文章2,3行Herrera told us in an email. "The second year I introduced vehicles, and this year I decided to push further by designing battle scenes."和However, he says he has plenty of ideas for new flakes next year, so no two will ever be the same. 可知Herrera会剪出很多种的剪纸花样出来，而且没有相同的。故D正确。
小题3:B
【试题解析】细节题。根据第三段前3行Sometimes, he feels a bit bored with his job. With each year, the designs have got more detailed and various, but the process of creating them remained the same: sketching figures on paper with a pencil until a symmetrical (对称）pattern comes out, then scanning the designs and cut them with scissors.可知有时候他很厌烦，是因为剪纸的过程总是一样的，这让他非常难受。故B正确。
小题4:C
【试题解析】推理题。根据文章最后2行get down to creating your own work. A warning: Most designs aren't for the casual flake-maker, so patience you must have作者建议我们下载下式样以后就开始做吧，关键是要有耐心。也就是说本段告诉我们如何去做。故C项正确。
【长难句解析】
Remembered as a cherished form of work in classrooms before the holidays, paper snowflakes have drawn many people's attention again.
【翻译】作为一项传统的假期之前的装修形式，剪纸又一次吸引了很多人的注意。
【分析】本句中含有一个分词做状语的用法，动词remember与后面句子的主语paper snowflake构成被动关系，所以使用过去分词表示被动，同时在句中做状语。