题目内容
Thanksgiving Day is a special holiday in the United States and Canada.Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing.
Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival.This is why it is celebrated in late fall,after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest.On December 4,1619,the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City,Virginia.They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.
The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest.The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth,Massachusetts,in 1620.They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel.Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year,they had a good harvest.So Governor Bradford declared a threeday feast (盛宴).The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.
In time,other colonies (殖民地) began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War,Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed (宣布) the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November.Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbours.But the Canadian Thanksgiving Day falls on the second Monday in October.
1.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated .
A.in spring B.in summer
C.in autumn D.in winter
2.The first to celebrate thanksgiving were .
A.some people from England
B.the American Indians
C.Sarah Josepha Hale
D.Governor Bradford
3.We can infer from the passage that New England must be .
A.in the U.S.A.
B.in Great Britain
C.in Canada
D.on some island off the Atlantic
4.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.
B.Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on thanksgiving celebrations.
C.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to express the American and Indian people’s thanks to God.
D.There’s little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
5.The passage mainly tells us .
A.how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the U.S.A.
B.how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebrated
C.that Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holiday
D.how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places
1.C
2.A
3.A
4.C
5.B
【解析】略
Elizabeth lived on the other side of a valley. One winter there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses down below Elizabeth’s were washed away. Elizabeth’s house was 21 enough to escape the flood, so when the water 22 and the other houses were standing there with no 23 and no walls and all covered with 24 ,her house was still quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was 25 and she had six children to support. Ten dollars a week, which was the total of their income, didn’t leave much for 26 . Expenses were always greater than Elizabeth had 27 , but she didn’t hesitate to help one of the families that lost everything in the flood and she 28 her house with them until it was 29 for them to move into their own houses.
Elizabeth’s friend was very 30 when she saw Elizabeth do this. She couldn’t understand why Elizabeth wanted to give 31 so much work and trouble to help others.
“Well,” Elizabeth 32 to her friend, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself 33 , because her husband had been killed in the war in Germany and she had a lot of 34 , as I have now.”
“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have 35 presents for all of us. I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who was in 36 clothes and crying in deep sorrow. The girl was an orphan(孤儿). ‘Here’s our 37 . She said to the children.
“The children were very 38 to have such a present. They 39 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. I was that 40 present.”
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