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 As is known to us. the year 2016 has one extra day in it- February 29th.  This is

because it's    61    we call "a leap year". Every four years. the year has 366 days in

  62    instead of 365.

    It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn’t

  63    (legal) recognized.  There is a well-known tradition in the UK    64    (associate)

with 29th February, introduced many centuries ago. Women are allowed to break with

tradition and propose(求婚)to their boyfriends on this day. This all started back in the

    65    (five) century, when a famous Irish saint made a    66    (complain) that women

had to wait too long for men to propose.  According to the legend, Saint Patrick said any

female dreaming of a proposal could ask her boyfriend to marry her on this additional day

in February. This so-called tradition was    67    (write)in law in the thirteenth century.

Scotland passed a law allowing women to propose to men in a leap year.  It was said that if

the men refused, they had to pay a fine!

    Now in 2016, there are calls    68    29th February to become a public holiday. Some

people believe that it should be an    69    (office) day off, because no one gets    70

(many) payments for working an extra day in a leap year. For the moment though, the

British still have to go to work on this day.

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