[填空题]The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in Chicago.

[填空题]The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in Chicago.

[单项选择]The first Labor Day, (31) in New York City in 1882, was less a celebration of the dignity of work than a demonstration in favor (32) the eight-hour day, down from the prevailing 10 to 12 hours. Compared (33) then, American workers have come a long way. Congress (34) Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, and over the years it evolved into a day off rather than a moment to reflect (35) the state of labor.
It’s the bleakest Labor Day since (36) the early 1980s. With the unemployment rate at 9.7 percent in August and expected to go higher, cheery news is (37) .
Job anxiety has also increased sharply, according to opinion survey (38) by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. A Gallup poll in August found that 31 percent of workers worried about being (39) , up from 15 percent a year (40) ; 32 percent thought their wages might be (41) , up from 16 percent; and 46 percent (42) fringe benefit
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