The traditional American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year a special feast was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists who had _1_ there had left England because they felt deprived of religious freedom. They came to the _2_ land and faced difficulties in coming _3_ the ocean. The ship which carried them was _4_ Mayflower. The North Atlantic was difficult to travel. There were bad storms. They were assisted in learning to live in the new land by the Indians who inhabited the region. The Puritans as they were called had _5_ to be thankful for. Their _6_ practices were no longer a source of _7_ by the government. They learned to _8_ their farming habits to the climate and soil. When they _9_ the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbours, the Indians, to join them in _10_ and a prayer of gratitude for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women, and children who left England. They remembered their dead who did not to live to see the shores of Massachusetts. They reflected on the 65 days’ voyage which tested their strength.
1. A) settled B) gone C) been D) stayed
2. A) poor B) new C) old D) strange
3. A) into B) over C) by D) across
4. A) titled B) known C) regarded D) called
5. A) many B) some C) much D) little
6. A) agricultural B) educational C) moral D) religious
7. A) criticism B) praise C) permission D) profit
8. A) change B) adopt C) adjust D) apply
9. A) appointed B) selected C) named D) took
10. A) competition B) dinner C) discussion D) worship
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