2. 职称英语
  3. Christians have generally regarded Christmas as both a holy day and holiday.

Christians have generally regarded Christmas as both a holy day and holiday.

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问题     Christians have generally regarded Christmas as both a holy day and holiday. (1)______
Customs of all lands have been added up through the centuries, making (2)______
Christmas today as the greatest folk festival in the world. (3)______
    Log was adopted to the English custom from the ancient Scandinavian (4)______
practice of kindling huge bonfires in the honor of the winter solstice. The (5)______
idea of using evergreens at Christmas time also came to England from
pre-Christian northern European beliefs. Celtic and Teutonic tribes hon
ored these plants at their winter solstice festivals as symbolic for eternal (6)______
lives. The custom of the Christmas tree believes to have begun by Martin (7)______
Luther in Germany. The sight of an evergreen tree on Christmas eve, with stars
blazing above, is said to have made a great impression on him, and he puts a (8)______
similar tree, decorated with lit candles, in his home. (9)______
    A well-loved Christmas custom is the singing of Christmas carols. Thir
teenth century Italy is considered the birthplace of the real Christmas carol,
and St. Francis of Assisi was thought to be the father of this custom. (10)______ [br] (1)
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答案 ∧holiday — a
解析 both和and后跟的结构应是对称的，因此在and后应加上a holiday。类似的结构还有(n)either…(n)or…
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