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  3. In the United States there are, strict speaking, no national (1)______ holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactme

In the United States there are, strict speaking, no national (1)______ holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactme

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问题     In the United States there are, strict speaking, no national (1)______
holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactment or executive (2)______
proclamation, appoint the day which each holiday is celebrated. (3)______
    Congress and the president may establish legal holidays for the District
of Columbia and for federal employees throughout the states and territo
ries; and by long custom, days that receive nationwide observation, such (4)______
as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Independent Day, and New Year’s (5)______
Day, are uniformly set apart by all states as legal, or public, holidays. In (6)______
1968 federal legislation established Columbus Day as a legal holiday for the
District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at 1971. The (7) _____
law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees would be granted three- (8)______
days weekends by observing Washington’s Birthday on the third Monday in (9)______
February, Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Columbus Day on the
second Monday in October, and Veteran Day on the fourth Monday in Octo
ber. By 1971 most of the states also adopted the new dates. (10)______
(4)
选项
答案observation — observance
解析 observation意思是“观察，观测”，而observance则表示“遵守，庆祝”，因此应选用observance。对于同一个动词派生出来的不同名词一定要加以区分。
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