The traditional belief that a woman’s place is in the home and that a woman ought not to go out to work can hardly be reasonably

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问题    The traditional belief that a woman’s place is in the home and that a woman ought not to go out to work can hardly be reasonably【B1】in present conditions. It is said’ that it is a woman’s task to care for the children, but families today【B2】to be small. Thus a woman’s whole period of【B3】may occur within five years. Furthermore, with【B4】education from the age of five or six her role as chief educator of her children soon【B5】.
   It might be argued that the house-proud woman would still find plenty to do about the home. That may be so, but it is certainly no longer necessary for a woman to【B6】her whole life cooking, cleaning, mending and sewing.
   Apart from women’s own happiness, the【B7】of the community must be considered. Modern society cannot do well without the【B8】that women can make in professions and other kinds of work.【B9】It is extremely wasteful to give years of training at public expense【B10】. The training, it is true, will help her in duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful. Many factories and shops, too, are largely staffed by women, many of them married.【B11】.

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答案maintained

解析 所填词被副词reasonably修饰,故应为动词,且应为过去分词形式与be构成被动语态。宾语为belief时maintain意为“坚持,主张”;过去分词在词尾加-ed。
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