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听力原文:M: Come in and have a seat please, Ann. Please make yourself at home. W: I am really grateful for your invitation. I know Thanksgiving is a very traditional family holiday and I am so glad to be with an American family on this occasion. M: on the fourth Thursday of November every year, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. You know its origin (20) ? w: Yeah, it has something to do with the first settlers and Indians (20) . M: Right. The first settlers in Massachusetts started this custom. And large dinners with many relatives are common throughout America on this special day. W: Do you have traditional dishes that you serve every year? M: Yes, we do. The traditional foods of Thanksgiving meal include roast turkey, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and bread pudding (20) . I hope you have a good appetite today. W: What do men do while women are doing the cooking? M: It's the same every year'--football. We watch one game after another on Thanksgiving (21) . I always think we'd better go out and get some exercise, but every year we fail. We are glued to the tube! When I was young, I always went hunting with my father on Thanksgiving Day morning. W: What do you do after the meal? M: After dinner we'd like to go bowling. It's a fan thing to do together as a family (22) . After a couple of games, we go back home and eat the leftovers. W: I think that Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most important holidays in the States, just like Spring Festival in China. (23)