A. pushing B. remain C. pregnant D. humiliating E. underground F. vitally G. dragging

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问题     A. pushing        B. remain        C. pregnant        D. humiliating        E. underground
    F. vitally        G. dragging      H. derive          I. oblivious          J. prefer
    K. deprive        L. brains        M. pleasant        N. veins              O. willing
    It is not long since conditions in the mines were worse than they are now. There are still living a few very old women who in their youth have worked【C1】________, with harness round their waists, and a chain that passed between their legs, crawling on all fours and【C2】________tugs of coal. They used to go on doing this even when they were【C3】________.
    And even now, if coal could not be produced without pregnant women dragging it to and fro, I fancy we should let them do it rather than【C4】________ ourselves of coal. But most of the time, of course, we【C5】________ to forget that they were doing it. It is the same with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are【C6】________ of its existence. More than anything else perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of manual worker, not only because it is so【C7】________ necessary and yet so silent, that we are capable of forgetting it as we forget the blood in our【C8】________. In a way it is even【C9】________ to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an "intellectual" and a superior person generally. For it is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can【C10】________ superior.
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答案N

解析 由空格前的物主代词our可确定空格处应填入名词,作介词in的宾语。根据常识可知血液流淌在veins“血管”里。这里的意思是“我们可以忘记它的存在正如我们毫不在意我们血管里流动的血液一样”,故选N。L项brains“大脑”并非血液流动的载体,可排除。
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