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会宁四中2014-2015学年度第二学期期中考试 高一级英语 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C或D）中，选出最佳选项 A. Thanksgiving Day is special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing. Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest. On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims （新来的移民）from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across