1. Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday of November is uniquely an American holiday. It __1__ back to the arrival of some of the first European settlers in the New World. America has been blessed with __2__ land and rich natural resources. However, those early settlers would not have survived their first cold winter__3__ the help of their native Indian neighbors, who taught them how to __4__ corns, and how to hunt wild deer. The first Thanksgiving Day was __5__ after the autumn harvest, and people gave thanks to God and to their friends.

1).

A. rich

B. dates

C. celebrated

D. plant

E. without