2018年12月英语六级阅读技巧训练356

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The Thanksgiving Turkey
Of all the Thanksgiving symbols the turkey hasbecome the most well known. The wild turkey isnative1 to northern Mexico and the eastern UnitedStates.
The turkey has brown features with buff-coloredfeathers on the tips of the wing and on the tail. Themale turkey is called a Tom2 and, as with mostbirds, is bigger and has brighter and more colorful plumage. The female is called a Hen and isgenerally smaller and drab in color. The Tom turkey has a long wattle (a fleshy, wrinkled,brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat) at the base of its bill andadditional wattles on the neck, as well as a prominent tuft of bristles3 resembling a beardprojecting downward from its chest.
The turkey was originally domesticated in Mexico, and was brought into Europe early in the16th century. Since that time, turkeys have been extensively raised because of the excellentquality of their meat and eggs. Some of the common breeds of turkey in the United States arethe Bronze, Narragansett, White Holland, and Bourbon Red.
Though there is no real evidence that turkey was served at the Pilgrim's4 first thanksgiving, ina book written by the Pilgrim's Governor Bradford, he does make mention of wild turkeys. In aletter sent to England, another Pilgrim describes how the governor sent "four men out fowling"returning with turkeys, ducks and geese.
Benjamin Franklin5 once said, "I wish the Bald Eagle6 had not been chosen as therepresentative of our country; he is a Bird of bad moral character; like those among Men wholive by Sharping7 and Robbing, he is generally poor and very often lousy. The Turkey is a muchmore respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of North America. "
阅读自测
Ⅰ. Fill in each blank according to what you've read:
Of all the symbols the turkey has become the most well known . The male turkey is called a ,and the female turkey is called
a . The turkey was originally domesticated in . Turkeys have been extensively raised becauseof the excellent quality of their since the century. Benjamin Franklin once said that he wishedturkeys but not had been chosen as the representative of the United States.
Ⅱ. Question :
Why did Benjamin Franklin think that the Turkey but not the Bald Eagle should be chosen asthe representative of the United States?
参考答案
Ⅰ. Thanksgiving / Tom / Hen / Mexico / meat andeggs / 16 th / the Bald Eagle Ⅱ. Because he thoughtthe Bald Eagle was a bird of bad moral character,while the Turkey was much more respectable and itwas the true original Native of North America.