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智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景材料：聚餐为何在中午 摘要： 托福阅读机经背景材料：聚餐为何在中午。背景知识在托福考试中发挥着重要的作用，很多考生都是通过背景知识了解托福考试的，希望小编整理的这一系列背景知识对大家能有所帮助。 感恩节这个听着就让人心里暖暖的节日，其实是源自美国。今天我们就来谈谈美国人是怎么过感恩节的。发现了好多自己形成已久的误区啊。大家来和小编一起看看吧，说不定你原来想的也是不对的呢。 感恩节是要谢谁? History Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for a plentiful harvest, because it is celebrated on the last Thursday of November at the end of the harvest season。 However, the history of Thanksgiving is not clear, because the harvest season is celebrated in many countries and cultures. Americans commonly celebrate the first harvest of the pilgrims, or the first colonists to settle in North America, in 1621. Many colonists came to the New World for religious freedom, because England did not allow diversity in religion. Native Americans and colonists did not always live together peacefully, but they did learn from each other by trading goods and farming methods. So many people celebrate the first successful harvest of the colonists。 我们最初知道“感恩节”，是老师在课堂上讲的关于“五月花号”(Mayflower)的故事。据说那时候不堪忍受英国国内宗教迫害的一群清教徒到达美洲。当时，美国的印第安人给 移民 送来了生活必需品，还特地派人教他们怎样狩猎、捕鱼和种植玉米、南瓜。于是，最初为了感谢美洲原住民，诞生了这么一个节日。 如今的原住民还是生活在美国各处，他们有自己的tribe，以及自己的tribal law，有些原住民也会走出自己祖先的土地和所有其他美国人一起读书，不过一眼就能看出他们和美国人长得实在相差很多，是比较接近亚洲人的长相哦。 Thankfulness Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a religious holiday, as a time to give thanks to God for the blessings in ones life. People can be thankful for things like their good health, the safety of their families, or having good friends. All of these things are called blessings, or things that God has given us。 For Americans who are not religious, thankfulness is just a feeling of gratitude. It is easy to forget how lucky we are, so Thanksgiving is a time to be reminded of the priceless things in our lives. Many families talk about what they are thankful for as they are sitting around the dinner table before they start the meal。 一开始小编以为感恩节是用来感谢朋友，家人一年内对自己的照顾，原来人家是来感谢上帝的啊!外国朋友似乎也对于咱们的理解颇为诧异呢。 据外国朋友的描述，全家聚在一起坐在餐桌前，在正式开动之前，每个人会先说一番话来回顾自己这一年，遇到了哪些值得感