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Passage 11
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'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.
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

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Passage 11
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1.[G]空格在动词被动语态was…celebrated之间，应为副词。上文提到现在加拿大的劳动节是每年9月的第一个星期一，空格所在句中的in the spring和moved等词表明劳动节原先并不是在9月庆祝的，故选用originally，表示劳动节“原先”在春天庆祝，1894年之后才改为在秋天庆祝。
2．[N]空格位于形容词之后,介词之前，应为名词。从下文可知加拿大劳动节起源于一场工人运动，填入此处的名词应与下一段第1句提到的demonstration同义,指一场“运动”或一次“罢工游行”parade符合句意。
3.[E]空格在介词for之后,可为名词或现在分词。根据句意，for引出24位工人领袖被囚禁的原因，据此可推测他们因某种行为而人狱。词库中striking原形是strike“罢工”，符合文中语境，故为答案。
4.[A]空格在不定式标记to之后，应填人动词原形。空格所在句提到，当时工会所做的事情被视为“犯罪阴谋”,故空格的动词应带有消极含义。此处应选用disrupt，填入文中表示工会所做的事情被视为“妨碍贸易”的犯罪阴谋。
5.[F]结合句中多个连接谓语动词的and可知，空格处应为动词的过去式,与encouraged和signaled并列。本句描述工会当时的积极作用，根据disputes between employers and employees(劳资双方的争端)可推断此处应选用mediated“调停”。
6.[L]空格在定冠词the和介词of之间,应填入名词。此处仍然是讲工会对工人所起的积极作用，mistreatment为本题答案,表明工会让外界知道工人所受到的不公正对待。
7.[B]空格在名词词组public support之前,应为形容词或分词，说明外界对罢工游行的态度。本句后部分提到“当局不能再否认工会所扮演的重要角色”，由此可推知外界对罢工游行给予了“大力”支持，故此处选用 enormous最合适。
8.[J]空格在定冠词the和名词词组之间,应为形容词或分词。此处说明了当时加拿大民主社会处于一种什么状态。emerging符合句意，表示“逐渐成形的民主社会”。
9.[M]空格在不定式标记to之后,应为动词原形。该句表明总理承诺会对不利工会的法律条文做出处理。动词词库中abolish“废除”符合句意，为本题答案。
10.[I]空格在连词and之后，在谓语动词led to之前，故应为副词。led to与前面的happened为并列谓语，这两个动作在时间上有先后之分,且led to常用于引出事件的结果或结论，据此判断此处最佳选择是eventually。