Thanksgiving Day is 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 three-day 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 thanks-giving Day falls on the second Monday in October.

1The first to celebrate thanksgiving were      .

  A. some people from England               B. the American Indians

  C. Sarah Josepha Hale                     D. Governor Bradford

2 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

3 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.

4 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

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题,共35分)

第四部分:写作( 共两节,满分35分 )

第一节:短文改错(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:

如无错误,在该行右边横线上划一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正;该行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉,在该行左边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。该行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。该行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行

右边横线上写出改正后的词。

We use both words and body language express our                    76.         

thoughts and opinions and to communicate with other               77. _________

people. We can learn a lot of about what a person is thinking     78. _________

by watch his or her body language. Words are important,          79. _________

but the way a person stands, folds his or her arms, or moved      80. _________

his or her hands can also give us informations about his             81. _________

or her feelings. Just like speaking language, body language        82. _________

vary from culture to culture. Making eye contact — looking             83. _________

directly in someone’s eyes — is in some countries a way           84. _________

to show interest. In another countries, however, eye contact              85. _________

is a way to show that a person is rude or disrespectful.

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