感恩节中考英语阅读

A. 感恩节英语阅读理解

Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for peoplein the United States. They celebrate it on the lastThursday in November. Canadians also celebrateThanksgiving Day, but they do it on the secondMonday of October. In Britain, where this festival iscalled Harvest Festival, people celebrate it earlier inthe year, in September.

harvest is the fruit you take from the trees andthe crops you take from the ground. In NorthAmerica and Britain, harvest time for most fruit andcrops is in the autumn. In these countries and other Christian places, people give thanks toGod on a special day of the year. They thank God for the good things that have happenedring the year and for the good harvest they have had. People usually take small boxes offruit, flowers, and vegetables to their churches to show their thanks.

The first thanksgiving service (仪式) in North America took place on December 4th, 1619when 38 English people, arrived in America to make their home in the new country. They heldthis service not to thank God for the harvest, but to thank God for their safe journeys. Thenext year, many more English people arrived. They had a bad winter, but fortunately theharvest was good. they decided to celebrate it with a big meal. They shot and killed smallanimals to eat and cooked every­thing outside on large fires. About 90 Indians also came to themeal. Everyone ate at tables outside their houses and played games together. The festivallasted three days.

A Thanksgiving Day celebration was held every year for a long time, but not always on thesame day of the year. Then, in 1789, President George Washington named November 26th asthe Day of Thanksgiving. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln changed the date, and said thatthe last Thursday in November should be Thanksgiving Day.

Nowadays, North Americans around the world get together with their families on this day toeat good food and have a happy time.

1. Is Thanksgiving Day celebrated on the same day in North American countries?

2. When did the first thanksgiving service take place in North America?

3. Who made the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day in the USA?

4. What does the word “fortunately” mean in Chinese?

5. Translate the sentence "They thank God for the good things that have happened ringthe year and for the good harvest they have had." into Chinese.

B. 有关感恩节小学英语阅读文章

he thankful great universe provides the environment of existence for us and give us sunlight, air, water and everything in keeping with we existence of space, bring storm to let us accept to toughen for us, bring to us mysterious let us look for.
the thankful parents give us the life, make us feel the merriment of the human life, feel the genuine feeling of the human life, feel the comity of the human life, feel happiness of the human life, also feel hardships and pain and sufferings of the human life!
the thankful teacher works with diligence and without fatigue everyday of teach, give us knowledge ability, put on the wing which flies toward the ideal for us.
the thankful classmate and friend grows up road of, let i no longer standing alone in the itinerary of life; the with gratitude is frustrated and let us become in a time the failure stronger.