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  3. Are women really advancing? In Africa, HIV/AIDS has set them back, while in India, pregnant women (1)_____ prefer boys they abor

Are women really advancing? In Africa, HIV/AIDS has set them back, while in India, pregnant women (1)_____ prefer boys they abor

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问题     Are women really advancing? In Africa, HIV/AIDS has set them back, while in India, pregnant women (1)_____ prefer boys they abort half a million females a year. And in Britain, which saw a (2)_____ female prime minister during the 1980s, a report by the nation’s Equal Opportunities Commission says gender equality in public life is "decades away". (3)_____ about 10% of senior positions in large companies and law enforcement are held by women, while the (4)_____ for women in Parliament is so slow that equality may (5)_____ a couple centuries.
    In Britain, as in America, there’s a (6)_____ that discrimination plays (7)_____ of a role in women’s progress in public life as more women stay in favor of motherhood (8)_____ careers in what’s called "choice feminism". These "choices", however, are often (9)_____.by the high cost of day care or its unavailability.
    In Japan, (10)_____ discrimination against women still remains strong, (11)_____ a 1985 law against it. But now that nation, with its low birth rate, faces a labor (12)_____ as it ages rapidly, and the government is (13)_____ new measures to encourage mothers to return to work after childbirth. The new measures (14)_____ more work flexibility for such returning workers, (15)_____ day care, and support women entrepreneurs.
    The Arab world has only recently begun to recognize the untapped potential of women as leaders. Iraq’s new Constitution required every (16)_____ candidate in the recent election to be a woman and that its parliament be 25 percent female. (17)_____ the charter also gives a (18)_____ role to Islam in writing new laws.
    (19)_____ many measures, from politics to poverty, women still have a long way to go toward equality and (20)_____.

选项 A、spend
B、cost
C、take
D、consume
答案C
解析 词汇辨析题。本句讲到妇女们虽然在为取得平等地位而努力，但是进展却很缓慢，可能会需要很长时间：a couple centuries，take后紧接一段时间，表示"需要花费…时间"。spend可以指花费时间，但是主语应为人；cost只可用于表示价值多少；consume有两个常用的意思：1)消耗，花费，耗尽：a project that consumed most of my time and energy耗尽我大部分时间和精力的计划；2)消费，为直接使用或拥有而购买(商品或服务)。
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