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  3. Perhaps (31) are far more wives that I imagine who take it for (32) that housework is neither satisfying nor even important once

Perhaps (31) are far more wives that I imagine who take it for (32) that housework is neither satisfying nor even important once

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问题     Perhaps (31) are far more wives that I imagine who take it for (32) that housework is neither satisfying nor even important once the basic demands of hygiene and feeding have been (33). But home and family is the one realm in (34) it is really difficult to shake free of one’s upbringing and create new values. My parents’ house was impeccably kept; cleanliness (35) a moral and social virtue, and personal untidiness, visibly old clothes, or long male hair provoked biting jocularity. If that (36) been all, maybe I could have adapted myself (37) housework on (38) easygoing, utilitarian basis, refusing the moral overtones but still believing in it as something constructive (39) it is part of creating a home. But at the same time my mother used to resent (40) it, called it drudgery, and convinced me that it wasn’t lit activity for an intelligent being.
    I was the only child, and once I was at school there was no (41) why she should have continued (42) her will to remain housebound, unless, as I suspect, my father would not hear of her having a job of her own.
    I can now begin to understand why a woman in a small suburban house, with no infants to look (43), who does not (44) reading because she has not had much of an education, and who is intelligent (45) to find neighborly chit-chat boring, should carry the pursuit of microscopic specks of dust to the (46) of fanaticism in an (47) to fill hours and salvage her self-respect. My parents had not even the status-seeking impetus to send me to university that Joe’s had; my mother (48) me to be "a nice quiet person who wouldn’t be noticed (49) a crowd", and it was feared that university education (50) in ingratitude (independence).

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答案extent
解析 考查固定搭配与上下文理解。由句意可知，这里指这种女性打扫家里的卫生到了狂热的程度，故填入extent，构成固定搭配to the extent of，指"到…的程度或者地步"。
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