单项选择题
M:How are you going to spend this year’s Thanksgiving vacation?
W:I’m going to spend it with my family.We celebrate very traditionally.We go to my grandparents’house and have a big Thanksgiving dinner.It’s really the only time in the year that my whole family gets together.
M:In my family we just have a big feast,too.We don’t really stop and think about how Thanksgiving Day developed,how new colonists in Massachusetts had a three-day fest to give thanks for surviving the first terrible winter and for gathering their first corn harvest the following year.
W:Did you know that the original Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in July?
M:No,I thought Thanksgiving had always been in November.
W:The first Thanksgiving was celebrated on July 30,1623.After that,Thanksgiving was celebrated at many different times.It wasn’t until 1863that Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as a day of Thanksgiving,and this holiday has been celebrated in November ever since.
A.How and when we celebrate Thanksgiving.
B.The traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
C.When Thanksgiving began.
D.Abraham Lincoln.