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40. A. from B. about C. in D. ofRead the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correctanswer to each of the questions.On the fourth Thursday in November, in houses around the United States, families get together for afeast, or a large meal. Almost all families eat turkey and cranberry sauce for this meal, and have pumpkinpie for dessert. This feast is part of a very special day, the holiday of Thanksgiving.In 1620 the Pilgrims made a difficult trip across the ocean from England. They landed in what is nowMassachusetts. In England the Pilgrims had not been allowed to freely practice their religion. So they wentto the New World in search of religious freedom.The Pilgrims' first winter was very hard. Almost half the group died of cold, hunger and disease.But the Indians of Massachusetts taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, to hunt and to fish. When the nextfall came, the Pilgrims had plenty of food. Theywere thankful to God and the Indians and had a feastto give thanks. They invited the Indians to join them. This was the first Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving became a national holiday many years later because of the effort of a woman namedSarah Hale. For forty years Sarah Hale wrote to each president and asked for a holiday of Thanksgiving.At last she was successful. In 1863 President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday.How much is Thanksgiving today like the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving? In many ways they aredifferent. For example, historians think that the Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey. The idea of Thanksgiving,though, is very much the same: Thanksgiving is a day on which we celebrate and give thanks.