The first American Thanksgiving was held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621.
It was in September of 1620 that the Puritans, or Pilgrims as they called themselves, left England aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. After 65 days at sea, they landed in Province town Harbor, inside the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
For about a month, the Pilgrims lived aboard ship and then sailed to Plymouth Harbor.
The Pilgrims were not trained and equipped to cope with life in the wilderness. During their first winter, they suffered tremendously. Hard work, diseases, bitterly cold weather, and insufficient food killed about half of them. By the end of this terrible first winter, only about 50 Plymouth colonists remained alive.
In spring 1621, the Indians of Massasoil's tribe taught the Pilgrims how to hunt, fish, and grow food. They taught the Pilgrims to use fish for fertilizer when growing corn, pumpkins, and beans. Because of this help from the Indians, the Pilgrims had a good harvest.
William Bradford, the governor chosen by the Pilgrims, was following an ancient tradition when, in the fall of 1621, he established a day of Thanksgiving to God. He invited Chief Massasoil and his men to share the Thanksgiving feast.
The Indians gladly accepted and sent deer meat for the feast. The Pilgrim men went hunting and returned with turkey and other wild animals. The women of Plymouth prepared delicious dishes from corn, berries, squash and pumpkins.
The first Thanksgiving dinner was cooked and served out-of- doors. Although it was late autumn, huge fires kept the hosts and guests warm.
Many of the traditions of the modern American Thanksgiving come from that first Thanksgiving celebration. Today's Thanks giving turkey is much like the ones that were hunted in the forests around Plymouth. Squash and corn, which were also harvested by the early Pilgrims, appear on the Thanksgiving table. Pumpkin pie is a traditional Thanksgiving dessert.
Every year, about 500,000 Americans take a journey into early American history by visiting Plymouth, a modern city that respects its past. In Plymouth Harbor, sightseers tour Mayflower Ⅱ, a recently built ship similar to the original Mayflower. Then they spend a few hours walking through a reproduction of the original Pilgrim village. Modern Americans take great pride in these courageous ancestors who had so little by today's standards, but who were thankful for receiving the things they valued most--a good harvest and the freedom to live and worship as they pleased.
The present passage is probably taken from ______.
A.a geography book
B.a book about customs
C.a travel book
D.a book about the American way of life
第4题
A.拱坝将大部分的外荷载通过拱端传至两岸岩体,主要依靠两岸坝肩岩体维持稳定,坝体自重对拱坝的稳定性影响不占主导作用。
B.利用拱梁的结构特点,充分发挥混凝土抗压强度,具有很强的超载能力。因此,拱坝对坝址地基处理的要求相对不高,是一种相对经济的坝型
C.坝体较薄,需设永久性伸缩缝,拱坝坝体周边通常固结于基岩上,因而温度变化、地基变化等对坝体影响较小。
D.坝体单薄情况下设置泄水孔口或坝顶设置溢流孔口会削弱水平拱和顶拱作用
E.拱坝是整体性空间结构,因而其抗震能力较强
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