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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
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听力原文: President Bush named federal appeals judge John G. Roberts Jr. to fill the first Supreme Court vacancy in a decade on Tuesday, delighting Republicans and unsettling Democrats by picking a young jurist of impeccably conservative credentials.
If confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, the 50-year-old Roberts would succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, long a swing vote on a court divided over abortion, affirmative action, states' rights and more.
Bush offered Roberts the job in a lunchtime telephone call, then invited him to the White House for a nationally televised, prime-time announcement. The president said his choice will "strictly apply the Constitution in laws, not legislate from the bench."
The confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to begin in late August or early September. That would allow plenty of time for the Senate to meet Bush's timetable of a vote before the high court begins its new term on Oct. 3.
Bush administration officials arranged for Roberts to pay his first courtesy calls on leading senators on Wednesday after breakfast with Bush in the White House residence. Republican reaction to the appointment was strongly supportive, while Democrats responded in measured terms.
"I'm just a little surprised that he's already subject to criticism. But this is America," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. , chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass,, reflecting an emerging Dem ocratic strategy, said he would use the hearings to probe whether Roberts can "separate his personal ideology frmn the rule of law."
Advocacy groups on the left and the right have made plans for multi million-dollar confirmation campaigns featuring television advertising and grass-roots organizing designed to sway swing vote senators. The ferocity of the battle is undetermined, however.
According to the news items, the retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor must______.
A.be a conservative
B.be a liberal
C.be a moderate
D.have no position
听力原文: A: Did you find Xavier, Allison?
B: Yeah, but the class was moved to another building, so I got lost and I was late by 20 minutes for the class at 8 am.
A: Don't worry about it. It was a freshmen class, so I'm sure that you weren't the only person who was late. How was your first biology class?
B: It's seems like the first day is just going over the syllabus and finding out what will be expected of us. There will be three short papers in my biology class, and one class presentation. The professor said he would take daily roll, but we could be allowed three absences without affecting our grades. I hope that I'll be able to deal with all of the tests!
A: I've just finished my nursing class. The professor said we had to do a considerable amount of reading. And I still have an English class at 11.
B: So do I. we must be in a same class] Is that with Dr. Thompson?
A: Yes, that's the one! At least there'll be a familiar face in class!
B: Look at the time! We'd better start off to class!
A: Which way are we going? The English class is in McKane Hall, isn't it?
B: Yeah, I think it's on upper campus. We'd better hurry! It's a bit of walk.
19.When does the conversation probably take place?
20.What time is Allison's classes today?
21.What is Xavier according to the conversation?
22.Which of the following is NOT true about Dr. Thompson?
(39)
A.In the morning before 8 o'clock.
B.In the morning at 11 o'clock.
C.In the morning before 11 o'clock.
D.In the afternoon after 11 o'clock.
That night he wrote a letter to a newspaper. The next day he went to the police. On Friday people read this in the newspaper:
BOOK: Have you any old books? I buy old and modern books.
Open all day on Saturdays. David Moore, 26 Fry Road.
David stayed at home on Saturday. His first visitor came at eight o'clock. David took him to the kitchen. At half past nine another man arrived. He had a bag under his arm.
"Mr. Moore?" the man asked.
"That's right. "David said. "Can I help you?"
"I've got some good book. You buy books, don't you?"
"Yes. Bring them in. I'll have a look at them. "
Soon the books were on the dining-table. "Come in now," David called," and bring the list. "
A policeman came into the dining-room. He read the names on the list in his hand. They were the same.
"Come with me , sir , "the policeman said to the man.
How did the man get Mr. Moore's books?
A.He bought them from David.
B.He bought them from a bookshop.
C.He took them from a car.
D.The policeman gave him.
Then in 1858, the schedule was interrupted. Farmer Gray died. Three days after the funeral exactly at one o'clock, Traill found him self looking into a pair of beseeching canine eyes. Bobby got his bun and disappeared. This was repeated for several days until Traill's curiosity got the better of him. He followed the small terrier as he left and raced to his master's grave. There he remained each day, fair or foul, despite the efforts of dog-loving townspeople to give him a new home. The graveyard caretaker, while sympathetic, was at first not so willing to let him in. But Bobby's devotion and fidelity were so great that the caretaker provided Bobby with a shelter close to the grave to protect him from bad weather.
Then, after nine years, Bobby was arrested as a vagrant because he had no license. The restaurant keeper appeared in court with Bob by mile was released by merciful justice. But just to make sure the law could not touch him. Lord Provost William Chambers paid Bobby's fee each year and presented him with a brass-plated collar inscribed "Grey friars' Bobby from The Lord Provost, 1876, License."
After that, Grey friars' Bobby was allowed to keep his lonely vigil undisturbed. He never varied his mealtime. Each day he left the graveyard as the gun roared one o'clock to pick up his bun and take it back to eat at his master's side. He must have been really hardy for he lived until 1872, having kept to his solitary post for fourteen long years. He was buried in Grey friars, of course, in a flower bed near John Gray's tombstone.
An appropriate title for the passage could be _______.
A.Traill's Dining Room
B.Farmer John Gray
C.Bobby the Faithful
D.Lord Provost William Chambers
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