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Thanksgiving Day and Turkey One Thanksgiving in my early
Thanksgiving Day and Turkey One Thanksgiving in my early
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Thanksgiving Day and Turkey
One Thanksgiving in my early 20s, I had a mountain of work to do and decided to take advantage of the long weekend by spending it solo, forgoing the enormous feast I always made for friends and assorted stragglers. Instead, on the day itself, I cooked a pious lunch of poached trout, sauteed spinach, and a lone boiled potato. I got a lot accomplished—and it was definitely the only holiday during which I ever lost a pound—but I did not feel virtuous, I felt depressed. I missed my turkey. Worse, there were no leftovers.
As it turns out, the pilgrims at Plymouth probably didn’t have turkey either. Nor did they have the stuffing, rolls, potatoes, pumpkin pie, or cranberries that we now equate with the Thanksgiving table. We know for sure that in preparation for that first feast in 1621, Governor Bradford sent"four men fowling" after wild geese and ducks. They may or may not have returned with a turkey or two as well, and possibly a swan, but they definitely augmented their bounty by great amounts of venison(Bradford was presented with at least five deer), cod, clams, and lobster.
It is unclear exactly when Thanksgiving became so inextricably bound with the turkey, but by 1941, when FDR. signed the law making the foust Thursday of November a federal holiday, lobster and clams and venison had long been gone from the national menu. Six years later, reps of the National Turkey Federation presented President Truman with one live bird and two dressed ones on the White House lawn, a tradition that continues—though I’ll bet the birds given to President Obama will not be nearly as tasty as those enjoyed by the Trumans.
Until about the middle of the last century, most of the turkeys eaten on Thanksgiving would have been what we now call "heritage breeds", including the Standard Bronze, bourbon Red, White Holland, Naragansett, and Jersey Buff varieties. These turkeys are gorgeous, hardy creatures, developed in Europe and America over hundreds rich in flavor. Though they are the ancestors to the Broad-Breasted white, they bear little resemblance to that now ubiquitous bird in taste or texture.
Today more than 99 percent of turkeys sold in America come from the roughly 270 million raised on factory farms each year. These birds are bred to be so literally broad-breasted that by the time they are 8 weeks old, they are too fat to walk, much less procreate—every Broad-Breasted White on the market is the product of artificial insemination. They are kept in giant barns, given antibiotics to prevent disease, and fed constantly so that they reach maturity in almost half the time it takes a heritage turkey. [br] The third paragraph suggests that______.
选项
A、thanksgiving has been a federal holiday since 1621
B、lobster had been on Thanksgiving menu until 1941
C、presenting president turkeys has been a custom over 60 years
D、truman made turkey the representative of Thanksgiving
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。根据题干提示定位到第三段。该段主要叙述了感恩节的确立和火鸡与节日的关联。该段第二句提及,在1941年的6年后,在白宫南草坪上向总统进献火鸡成了一个延续的传统,距今已有60年以上的历史,由此可推知[C]含义与之相符,故为正确答案。由该段第一句可知,感恩节在1941年才成为联邦节日,故排除[A];[B]含义与原文正相反,应该是离开餐桌很久,故排除;该段第二名只是提及在白宫草坪接受火鸡的传统自杜鲁门开始,并不表明是他把火鸡作为了感恩节的象征,故排除[D]。
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