单选题
What is the subject of this conversation? A. How and when we celebrate Thanksgiving. B. The traditional Thanksgiving dinner. C. When Thanksgiving began. D. Abraham Lincoln.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] M: How are you going to spend this year's Thanksgiving vacation? W: I'm going to spend it with my family. We celebrate very traditionally. We go to my grandparents' house and have a big Thanksgiving dinner. It's really the only time in the year that my whole family gets together. M: In my family we just have a big feast, too. We don't really stop and think about how Thanksgiving Day developed, how new colonists in Massachusetts had a three-day fest to give thanks for surviving the first terrible winter and for gathering their first corn harvest the following year. W: Did you know that the original Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in July? M: No, I thought Thanksgiving had always been in November. W: The first Thanksgiving was celebrated on July 30, 1623. After that, Thanksgiving was celebrated at many different times. It wasn't until 1863 that Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as a day of Thanksgiving, and this holiday has been celebrated in November ever since.
单选题
How will the woman spend Thanksgiving? A. With colonists in Massachusetts. B. Alone and thanking about how Thanksgiving developed. C. With a big Thanksgiving dinner. D. In an untraditional manner.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】当被问及如何过感恩节这一问题时，女生说她要同她的家人一起度过，而且是很传统的那种，以及“We go to my grandparents’house and have a big Thanksgiving dinner．”(还会去她的祖父母家里吃一顿大餐)所以C项符合要求。
单选题
What were the Massachusetts colonists thankful for? A. The terrible winter. B. The corn harvest. C. The development of Thanksgiving Day. D. For getting the whole family together.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】这是一道细节题。在男生介绍有关感恩节传统的时候，他说“new colonists in Massachusetts had a three-day fest to give thanks for surviving the first terrible winter and for gathering their first corn harvest the following year．”说明最初的殖民者庆祝感恩节就是感谢(上帝)他们度过了第一个严冬同时也庆祝他们所获得的第一笔收成。所以答案应当选择B项。
单选题
According to the speaker, when is Thanksgiving celebrated today? A. At many different times. B. In July. C. Any time in November. D. On a Thursday in November.