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
A. 100 years old
B. 200 years old
C. 300 years old
D. 400 years old
Olympics were first held in Greece in ancient times. The modern Olympics didn’t begin until the year 1896. Women competed in Olympic events for the first time in Paris in 1900. The first Winter Games began in 1924. And in 1932, the first Olympic village was built to accommodate athletes in Los Angeles. In 1936 in Berlin TV cameras broadcast Olympic events for the first time. The 1956 Olympics in Melbourne were the first Olympic Games to be held in the southern hemisphere. Tokyo hosted the first Asian Olympics in 1964.
IOC stands for International Olympic Committee, which governs the Olympics in general. It was founded in Paris on June 23, 1894. Its headquarters are in the. Swiss city of Lausanne. Its official languages are English and French. ItC members come from five different continents: Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. They choose Olympic cities six years in advance. All the Olympic movement’s rules are contained in a book called The Olympic Char
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The Olympic Games were first held at Olympia in ancient Greece as ling ago as 776 B. C. They were held once every four years. The custom lasted for more than 1,000 years, but died out under the rulers of Rome and ceased with the decline of ancient Greek civilization. Then in 1896 the Games were revived. In that year, a Frenchman, Baron de Coubertin, decided to try to start the Games again. He wished to renew those ideals of excellence of body, mind and spirit shown in the classic Greek Olympics. He succeeded, and the modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Since then the Olympics have grown steadily with more and more nations and athletes taking part. Because of the World Wars, they were not held in 1916, nor in 1940 and 1944. They have been regularly held ever since then.
The Olympics present the world’s most important athletic contests. Athletes from all over the world take part in the modern Olympic Games. Any nation may enter a team
A. 776B.C.
B. 667B.C.
C. C. 766 C.
D. D. 767C.
The traditional American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year a special feast (盛宴) was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists (殖民地居民) who had settled there had left England because they were denied of religious freedom. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in coming across the ocean.
The ship that carried them was called the Mayflower. The North Atlantic was difficult to sail. There were bad storms. They were assisted in learning to survive on the new land by the Indians who lived in the region. The Puritans, as they were called, had much to be thankful for. Their religious practices were no longer a source of criticism by the government. They learned to adjust their farming habits to the climate and soil.
When they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner and a prayer of gratitude for the new life. They recalled the
A. Because of religious problems.
B. To establish a new religion.
C. To learn farming.
D. Because of the Indians.
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