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There are many festivals in the United States and Canada,among which Thanksgiving day is a quite special one. 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（清教徒） from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.

The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Governor Bradford declared a three-day feast（盛宴）. The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.

In time, other colonies（殖民地）began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He declared the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbors. But the Canadian thanks-giving Day falls on the second Monday in October.

28. The first to celebrate thanksgiving were .

A. Sarah Josepha Hale B. the American Indians

C. some people from England D. Governor Bradford

29. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated .

A. in autumn B. in summer C. in spring D. in winter

30. We can infer from the passage that New England must be .

A. in Great Britain B. in the U. S. A. C. in Canada D. on some island off the Atlantic

31. The passage mainly tells us .

A. how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the U. S. A.

B. how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places

C. that Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holiday

D. how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebrated