Passage 4
Many countries have a holiday to celebrate workers’rights on or around May 1, but Labour Day in Canada is celebrated on the first Monday of September. Canada&39;s Labour Day was _1_ celebrated in the spring but it was moved to the fall after 1894. The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly organized Canada’s first significant _2_ for worker’s rights. The aim was to release the 24 leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for _3_ to campaign .for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and what they did was seen as a criminal conspiracy to _4_ trade. In spite of this, the Toronto Trades Assembly was already a significant organization and encouraged workers to form. trade unions, _5_ in disputes between employers and employees and signaled the _6_ of workers. There was _7_ public support for the demonstration and the authorities could no longer deny the important role that the trade unions had to play in the _8_ Canadian democratic society. A few months later, a similar demonstration was organized in Ottawa and passed the house of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald. Later in the day, he appeared before the gathering and promised to _9_ all Canadian laws against trade unions. This happened in the same year and _10_ led to the founding of the Canadian Labour Congress In 1883. A similar holiday,Labor Day is held on the same day in the United States of America. Canadian trade unions are proud that this holiday was inspired by their efforts to improve workers’rights.
A) disrupt
B) enormous
C) lashed
D) muttering
E) striking
F) mediated
G) originally
H)perpetual eventually
J) emerging
K) gesture
L) mistreatment
M) abolish
N) parade
O) practically
第1空答案是:
第1题
According to the passage, old volcanic mountains lie ______ .
A.in the center of the country
B.on a coastal plain
C.near the Cordillera Central
D.in the north of the country
第2题
A.slowdown
B.sluggish
C.surge
D.soar
第3题
A、higher; any other countr
B、bigger ; any other country
C、smaller; that of any country
D、bigger; that of any other country
第5题
He chose the present company location because
A.financial support was available in that part of the countr
B.B it would be easy to expand the premise
C.C there was already a skilled workforc
第6题
It can be inferred from the latest survey that______.
A.hospital teaching across the country is similar
B.each hospital has at least one part-time teacher
C.all hospitals surveyed offer education to children
D.only one-fourth of the hospitals have full-time teachers
第7题
In Bangladesh, officials say the Ganges Rive may flood ______.
A.eastern part of the country
B.western part of the country
C.central part of the country
D.several parts of the country
第8题
It can be inferred from the latest survey that______.
A.hospital teaching across the country is similar.
B.each hospital has at least one part-time teacher.
C.all hospitals surveyed offer education to children.
D.only one-fourth of the hospitals have full-time teachers.
第9题
It can be inferred from the latest survey that______.
A.hospital teaching across the country is similar
B.each hospital has at least one part-time teacher
C.all hospitals surveyed offer education to children
D.only one-fourth of the hospitals have full-time teachers
第10题
The transition to the use of Euros can be______.
A.finished by the cooperation of 12 countries
B.taken rather by the governments than common people
C.the chance to improve the original city facilities
D.a burden to all the countries involved
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