2019中考英语阅读理解专项：Thanksgiving Day

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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 send Monday of October. InBritain, here 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 Arica andBritain, harvest ti for most fruit and crops is in the autumn. In these untries 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, floers, and vegetables to their churches to sho their thanks.

The first thanksgiving service (仪式) in North Arica took place on December 4th, 1619 hen 38 English people, arrived in Arica to make their ho in the ne untry. 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 inter, but fortunately the harvest as good. they decided to celebrate it ith a big al. They shot and killed small animals to eat and oked every