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热点74 感恩节的来历及其活动
2012年中考时间一、阅读单选my fair lady
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Thanksgiving Day is the most traditional holiday of America.It is on the 4th Thursday of November.
macau是什么意思The first Thanksgiving Day is held in Massachutts in 1621 after the first harvest(丰收) by the pilgrims(朝圣者).They want to give thanks to God for their first harvest.They invite their Indian friends to join them in a big feast(盛宴).The day has been celebrated since that time.But now Thanksgiving Day is a time for each family member to go back home.Usually families all get together and have a big dinner.The main dishes(菜) for Thanksgiving Day are turkeys and pumpkin pies.Each family will have their own favourite
food to eat，so it is not the same all over the USA. But usually people cook corn，mashed potatoes and pumpkin pies.
1. What does “Thanksgiving Day” mean in Chine？
A. 圣诞节 B. 万圣节 C. 复活节 D. 感恩节
2. When is Thanksgiving Day？
A. November 4th. B. The 4th Thursday of November.
C. The first Thursday in November. D. November 14th.
3. What did people thank for on the first Thanksgiving Day？
A. Good harvest. B. Their parents.
C. Nothing(没有什么). D. Food.
4. What food do people have on Thanksgiving Day？
A. Turkeys，potatoes，corn.
B. Pumpkin pies，corn，eggs.
C. Mashed potatoes，candies，pumpkins.
D. Chicken，fruit，pies.
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A turkey named Courage gave thanks to President Obama for saving his life on the day before Thanksgiving. Honouring a 62-year-old tradition, the President pardoned(赦免)the bird on Thanksgiving eve.
The tradition of a turkey pardon at Thanksgiving began with President Truman in 1947. Courage comes from Ellsworth, Iowa. The name Courage was chon by voters (投票人)who took part in a survey posted on the White Hou website. The lucky turkey walked on the lawn of the Ro Garden and pod for the cameras at the presidential podium(讲台).
The dinner that has become known as the First Thanksgiving was actually a harvest festival celebrated in December of 1621. That’s when English ttlers in Plymouth, Massachutts, gave thanks for the progress they had made after a hard winter in their new country. As America grew, Thanksgiving customs also spread and got bigger. George Washington declared that the first national Thanksgiving would be on November 26, 1789. In the decades to follow, however, people celebrated Thanksgiving locally, with no official date. President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November 1863 a national day of Thanksgiving. It stayed that way until 1939, when President Franklin D. Roovelt moved it one week earlier. He wanted to lengthen the shopping period before Christmas to encourage gift-buyers and to help business. So Congress（议会） ruled that, after 1941, Thanksgiving would be an official federal holiday falling on the fourth Thursday of November.sable
This year we celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday, November. Millions of Americans got together to give thanks with friends and family. The lucky turkey, Courage, was one of them. After his pardon, Courage would be nt to Disneyland Resort in California, where
temperature怎么读sullihe would be the grand asmble of Disney’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
5. That the turkey Courage was pardoned was decided by ________.
A. George Bush B. Congress
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C. President Truman D. the public
6. The first Thanksgiving Day was held to ________.
A. celebrate the harvest of British ttlers
slieB. celebrate the progress of Americans
C. encourage the struggle with British ttlers
D. celebrate the joy of all Americans after a hard winter
7. We can infer(推断)from the passage that ________.
A. President Obama pardoned a turkey before Thanksgiving becau of the economic crisis
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B. the turkey named Courage was pardoned by President Roovelt before Thanksgiving逃避英文
C. the pardoned turkey walked on the lawn of the Ro Garden on Thanksgiving eve
D. the pardoned turkey will appear in a celebrating parade of Thanksgiving Day
3When Mrs. Klein told her first graders to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, she thought how little the children, who lived in a terrible neighborhood, actually had to be thankful for. Since it was Thanksgiving Day, she knew that most of the class would draw pictures of turkeys (火鸡) or of Thanksgiving tables with lots of food.
What made Mrs. Klein surprid was Douglas’s picture. Douglas was so shy and likely to be found away from the others as they went outside for games. Douglas’s drawing was simply this:
A hand, clearly, but who hand? The class was attracted by his picture. “I think it must be the hand of his mum or dad that brings us food,” said one student.
