Undoubtedly,
turkeys were among the fowls served at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Despite those significant beginnings and Benjamin Franklin’s lobbying(游说), the turkey lost to the bald eagle in the contest for American bird. And it is a loser in modern English slang, too. Since the 1920s, turkey has been a term for a play or movie that is a failure, and since the 1950s for a person who is not fit for his job. But though the turkey never succeeded in becoming the American symbol, it did become the American feast. Thanksgiving is Turkey Day, and the turkey has come into our language more than other birds. We never “talk eagle”, we “talk turkey” when we speak frankly.
63. Who named the bird turkey?
A. English speakers.
B. Turkish merchants.
C. Captain John Smith.
D. Guineans.
【答案】A
【解析】从第一段的第二句话Although that bird came from Guinea(几内亚)in Africa, the English apparently first imported it from Turkish merchants. So, naturally, they called it a turkey. 得知虽然这种鸟原产地是几内亚,但是是英国人从Turkish商人那里买的,很自然的,英国人就称这种鸟turkey.
【考点定位】考察的是细节理解题
64. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that ________.
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