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  3. The greatest recent social changes have been【C1】______the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkab

The greatest recent social changes have been【C1】______the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkab

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问题     The greatest recent social changes have been【C1】______the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the【C2】______of a woman’ s life spent in【C3】______for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her【C4】______twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of【C5】______four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother【C6】______have been in her early fifties and would expect to live【C7】______further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get【C8】______work. Today women marry younger and have【C9】______children. Usually a woman’ s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be【C10】______to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even【C11】______she has the care of children, her work is【C12】______by household appliances and convenience foods.
    This important change in women’ s life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’ s economic【C13】______. Even a few years ago most girls left school【C14】______the first opportunity, and most of them took a full time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never【C15】______to it. Today the school leaving age is sixteen, many girls【C16】______at school after that age, and though women【C17】______to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born.【C18】______many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have【C19】______to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the【C20】______and satisfactions of family.
【C12】
选项 A、lightened
B、lighted
C、lit
D、shortened
答案A
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