读后续写Dramatic Thanksgiving一团糟的圣诞节大餐讲义-2023届高三英语写作专项

读后续写原题： The excitement about Thanksgiving was really building that year.Grandma arrived early with a homemade pecan pie in one hand and a pound cake in the other.Dad was poking around in a cabinet,searching for his electric carving knife.Little Lonnie bounced up and down on his diapered bottom,keeping time to the music.My big brother,Slim,who was anything but slim,sneaked off to his room with a slice of the pecan pie.Even Fido was wagging his tail. Mama set the table with real china and real silverware.Then she looked up, smiling."Help me carry in the food,"she said.Slim,who had come out of his room by this time,went racing into the kitchen."I'll get it!I'll get it!"he screamed.The rest of us piled in behind him,with everyone grabbing a pan or a dish.We placed the pans and dishes on the sideboard and looked up to watch Dad carry in the biggest,brownest,best-smelling turkey we had ever seen with Mama's hand under the platter,just in case.Together they lowered the turkey to its place at the head of the table. It was the tradition in our family for each of us to think of something for which we were most thankful.All eyes were on that enormous turkey as we took our seats at the table. Yes,everything was perfect except for one thing.That was the one day of the year when Dad sat at the head of the table and carved the turkey.It was an honor that he had eagerly anticipated for days in advance.Now Dad was not a well-coordinated man.He frequently tripped over his own two feet,and he could be counted on to drop just about anything.He was said to have two left thumbs,or as Mama sometimes called him,he was a clumsy ox. That's why we all eased back from the table just a bit when Dad plugged in the electric carving knife,and we all eased back just a bit more when he tested it in the air.Dad went to work on the white meat first with surprisingly few problems.Slice after slice landed neatly on the platter.Dad leaned forward and grabbed the end of the left turkey leg and cut it off