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Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for people in the United States. They celebrate it on the last Thursday in November. Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving Day, but they do it on the second Monday of October. InBritain, where this festival is called Harvest Festival, people celebrate it earlier in the year, in September.

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

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

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

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

根据文章回答问题

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

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

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

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

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

温馨提醒：

1. No, it isn’t. 回答一般疑问句用Yes或No回答。

2. On December 4th, 1619. 细节题。见第3段第一句。

3. President Abraham Lincoln 细节题。见第4段最后一句。

4. 幸运地　词义猜测题。根据前后的转折关系可推测出。

5.翻译：他们感谢上帝在这一年中赐给他们的好运和给他们带来的好收成。

译文：

感恩节对于美国人民来说是非常特殊的一天。他们庆祝十一月的最后一个星期四。加拿大人也庆祝感恩节，但他们在十月的第二个星期一庆祝感恩节。InBritain，这个节日被称为丰收的节日，人们庆祝它在今年早些时候，在九月。

收获是你从树上摘下的果实和从地上收获的果实。在北美洲和英国，大多数水果和农作物的收获时间是秋天。在这些国家和其他基督教地方，人们在一个特殊的日子感谢上帝。他们感谢上帝在这一年里发生的好事和他们所得到的好收成。人们通常会把小盒子的水果、鲜花和蔬菜送到教堂以示感谢。

第一次的感恩节服务(仪式)在北美洲发生在1619年12月4日，38的英国人，来到美国，在新的国家把他们的家。他们这样做不是为了感谢上帝的收获，而是感谢上帝为他们的安全旅程。明年，更多的英国人来了。他们有一个糟糕的冬天，但幸运的是，收获的是好的。他们决定用一顿大餐庆祝。他们开枪打死了小动物，然后在大火堆外面吃东西。大约90名印度人也来吃饭。每个人都在外面的桌子上吃饭，一起玩游戏。节日持续了三天。

感恩节庆祝活动每年举行一次，但并不总是在同一天。然后，在1789，乔治·华盛顿总统将11月26日定为感恩节。1863，亚伯拉罕·林肯总统改变了日期，并说十一月的最后一个星期四应该是感恩节。

如今，全世界的北美人在这一天和家人团聚，一起吃美食，度过快乐时光。

重点词汇：

Thanksgiving Day感恩节

United States美国; 合众国

Harvest Festival收获节，收获感恩节

in the year<口>老早以前

North America北美洲

harvest time收割期; 秋

give thanks做感恩祷告

thank God谢天谢地

good things好吃的东西，美味的食品，奢侈品

good harvest高产

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