In the US, which day is Thanksgiving Day？

On which day is Thanksgiving Day? Thanksgiving falls on the _____.

A. fourth Thursday of November

B. fourth Tuesday of November

C. third Thursday of December

D. third Tuesday of December

Which of the following statements is not true of Thanksgiving Day?

A．Thanksgiving commemorates the harvest reaped by the Plymouth colony in 1621.

B．The American settlers celebrate their first Thanksgiving for the large harvest in 1620.

C．Thanksgiving is an occasion to thank God and pray for more blessings.

D．Thanksgiving Day was fixed by the pilgrims to show their appreciation to American Indians.

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.

Thanksgiving Day

The American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year, a special dinner was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The people who had settled there had left England because they were forbidden to keep their religious belief. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in sailing across the ocean. The ship which carried them was called "the Mayflower". The North Atlantic was hard to travel. There were bad storms and huge waves. With the help of the Indians, they learned to live in the new land. These Puritans, as they were called, had much to be thankful for. They could enjoy religious freedom. They learned how to grow their crops in accordance with the climate and soil. Now when they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner. They also wanted to pray God for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women and children who left England. They remembered those who did not live to see the shores of Massachusetts. They thought of the 65 day's journey which tested their strength.

The first celebration of a day of Thanksgiving is about ______.

A．100 years old

B．200 years old

C．300 years old

D．400 years old

Thanksgiving Day

The American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year, a special dinner was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The people who had settled there had left England because they were forbidden to keep their religious belief. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in sailing across the ocean. The ship which carried them was called "the Mayflower". The North Atlantic was hard to travel. There were bad storms and huge waves. With the help of the Indians, they learned to live in the new land. These Puritans, as they were called, had much to be thankful for. They could enjoy religious freedom. They learned how to grow their crops in accordance with the climate and soil. Now when they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner. They also wanted to pray God for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women and children who left England. They remembered those who did not live to see the shores of Massachusetts. They thought of the 65 day's journey which tested their strength.

The first celebration of a day of Thanksgiving is appronimately about______.

A．100 years old

B．200 years old

C．300 years old

D．400 years old

Thanksgiving Day

The American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year, a special dinner was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The people who had settled there had left England because they were forbidden to keep their religious belief. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in sailing across the ocean. The ship which carried them was called "the Mayflower". The North Atlantic was hard to travel. There were bad storms and huge waves. With the help of the Indians, they learned to live in the new land. These Puritans, as they were called, had much to be thankful for. They could enjoy religious freedom. They learned how to grow their crops in accordance with the climate and soil. Now when they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner. They also wanted to pray God for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women and children who left England. They remembered those who did not live those the shores of Massachusetts. They thought of the 65 day's journey which tested their strength.

The first celebration of a day of Thanksgiving is approximately about______.

A．100 years old

B．200 years old

C．300 years old

D．400 years old

November 26, 1789 was ______.

A．the first officially proclaimed Thanksgiving Day in America

B．the first Thanksgiving Day observed by Americans

C．the day When George Washington was inaugurated President of the U. S.

D．the day when Elias Boudinot made the motion to set up an official Thanksgiving Day

As early as the 19th century, shoppers have viewed Thanksgiving Day as the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, an occasion marked by celebrations and sales. Department stores in particular locked onto this marketing notion, hosting parades to launch the start of the first wave of Christmas advertisements, chief among them, the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday shopping craze became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving Day up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving Day one week earlier, but didn t announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings Day that year—Roosevelt s, jokingly dubbed " Franksgiving," and the original. Because the switchover was handled so poorly, few observed it, and the change resulted in little economic boost.

A、the good old days

B、the history of this country

C、the latest politics

D、the interesting TV programs