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Chinese people receive a day off for most public holidays．For Spring Festival and National Day，they have three days off．But people are usually71___to work on weekends before or after the holiday72___that they can have three or five days off in a row．
    Many people choose to travel during long breaks，and this73___encourages the economy（经济）：more money is spent and more things are sold，so companies have more profit and the economy becomes74___．
"I want to visit the Forbidden City．During my summer and winter holiday vacation，my parents need to work；75___the Spring Festival holiday，we visit my grandparents．So the Nationl Day holiday is our once-in-a-year chance，"said Huang Hanyuan，14 from Henan．
    But if everyone 76___time off in the sane days，what will happen？After the 7-day holiday，Huang Hanyuan feels77___，but her parents find it a relief（解脱）．They visited Beijing during the break．It was overcrowded everywhere．Highways turned into parking lots．Train tickets sold out within minutes．Police helped clean jammped roads．
    To make things better，people are 78___for more flexible（灵活的） holiday，given paid annual leave（带薪年假），for example．
     Many European79___make it a law that people have at least 20 paid days off every year，and Jpanese people have at least 10．People can decide by80___when to take the time off．In this way，they can arrange trip better．

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71．asked，考察动词辨析及上下文理解，文中提到"they can have three or five days off in a row"这样一来人们就可以连着休息3-5天，由此可以推测此处应该是被要求在周末上班，也就是所谓的调休，ask to do...