Study harder ______.

Complete each sentence with the appropriate form of the word in brackets.

I recommend this book for an exam ______.

Choose the word among A, B, C, D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

THANKSGIVING

         Thanksgiving is the biggest holiday of the year in the United States. It goes back to 1621, (29)______ a group of men and women sailed to America from England, hoping for a better life. During the first year that the group were in America, the people who were (30) ______ living there showed them how to grow vegetables and catch wild turkeys, birds (31) ______ large chickens, for food. At the end of that year, they had a festival meal together.

               Since then, Thanksgiving has become a time for Americans to remember their history. On the last Thursday in November, almost (32) ______ travels by plane, train and car to be with family and enjoy a dinner of roast turkey, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.