填空题

Often considered a "modem" celebration, Mother’s Day dates back more than 400 years and, today, it’s celebrated on (26) dates in different countries. So, if you’re from the UK or Ireland and feel as though Mother’s Day has come around again (27) quickly this year, it’s because you already celebrated it on March 30. There are two main dates (28) Mother’s Day: in Britain and Ireland it’s the fourth Sunday of March and for the US, Hong Kong, Australia and most of the world, it’s the second Sunday in May.
The reason for the discrepancy is a somewhat (29) history. Many believe the holiday’s English (30) can be found in the 16th century where, on Laetare Sunday (fourth Sunday in Lent), Christians would-visit the main church in their region: the "mother church". This was also an era when children working as (31) would go home to visit family, and so the holiday known as "Mothering Sunday" (32) . The American (33) finds its roots twisted around the country’s bloody civil war and the story of Ann Marie Jarvis and her daughter Anna. Born in 1832 in the US, Ann Marie spent her life working to help the local community, (34) women and mothers. Among other things, she set up "Mother’s Day Work Clubs" to help women suffering from tuberculosis. Eight of her 12 children died through illness, four during the US civil war, but Ann Marie (35) her work. She died at age 73 on the second Sunday in May, 1905. Three years later, her daughter Anna organized the first official Mother’s Day celebration to honor her mother’s life.