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【B17】

A. design
B. realize
C. get
D. create

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【B7】

A. It
B. That
C. She
D. Who

【B11】

A. time
B. campaign
C. movement
D. work

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George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, 【B1】 some were opposed to it. There was 【B2】 among the colonies, 【B3】 feeling the hardships of a few Pilgrims did not 【B4】 a national holiday. And 【B5】 , President Thomas Jefferson laughed 【B6】 the idea of having a day of thanksgiving.
【B7】 was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to 【B8】 we now recognize as Thanksgiving. Hale wrote many editorials championing her 【B9】 in her Boston Ladies' Magazine. 【B10】 , after a 40-year 【B11】 of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale's obsession became a 【B12】 when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a 【B13】 day of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president 【B14】 Lincoln. The date was changed a 【B15】 of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who set it 【B16】 one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to 【B17】 a longer Christmas shopping season. Public uproar 【B18】 the decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving 【B19】 to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a 【B20】 holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November.
【B1】

A. and
B. although
C. since
D. when

【B13】

A. famous
B. great
C. holy
D. national