Wordly Wise 3000, level 5 lesson 8

Thanksgiving is a popular holiday in the United States. It is ______________ each year on the fourth Thursday in November.

• frivolous

• hostile

• hew

• celebrated

Thanksgiving brings families together around the dinner table. The centerpiece of the __________________ is usually a roast turkey.

• banquet

• hew

• cargo

• pledge

The first Thanksgiving was held in late 1621. At that time the Pilgrims gave thanks for their first _________________.

• celebrate

• task

• harvest

• assemble

Forty-one passengers had met the previous year in the Mayflower's main cabin. At that _________________ they drew up the rules by which they would govern themselves.

• banquet

• assembly

• cask

• task

The set of rules was known as the Mayflower Compact. All those who signed it _________________ to observe the agreement.

• assembled

• prospered

• pledged

• edible

The Mayflower carried everything the Pilgrims would need in the New World. Musical instruments, considered unimportant, were not part of the _____________.

• decrease

• desperate

• task

• cargo

Liquids were brought over on the Mayflower in watertight barrels. These _____________ could later be used by the Pilgrims to store water.

• prosper

• casks

• desperate

• frivolous

Axes were very important tools. With them the Pilgrims could ___________ logs from the forest trees to make their homes.

• edible

• desperate

• hostile

• hew

Everyone who was able to had to work. Small children might be given the ______________ of collecting firewood.

• cask

• edible

• task

• pledge

The Pilgrims were starving by the end of the winter. When Samoset visited them, their supplies of food had _____________ to almost nothing.

• assembled

• prospered

• frivolous

• decreased