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  3. They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over. Women are beginning to rise【S1】______to

They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over. Women are beginning to rise【S1】______to

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问题     They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over.
    Women are beginning to rise【S1】______to the top in the workplaee all over the developed  world. New figures show that in almost a third of American【S2】______with a working wife, the woman brings home more money than her husband and that they now occupy half the country’s" high-paying, executive, administrative and【S3】______occupations", compared with 34 per cent 20 years ago.
    The trend is【S4】______by two main factors, experts say--a【S5】______acceptance of men as househusbands and mass unemployment of male white-collar workers from the technology, finance and media industries in the last three years.
    The University of Maryland has【S6】______a report that shows women to be the chief earner in 11 per cent of all US marriages.
    Pushing a buggy(婴儿车) on a sunny afternoon in New York’s Central Park last week, Jonathan Blinderman, 33, said, he was【S7】______he had been able to see every moment of his daughter Lindsay’s first six months of life while his wife, sage, was out working.
    It is a sign of these times of【S8】______that when he mentions his status at parties he is either praised as a saint or【S9】______as a slave-cum-freeloader(爱占便宜的奴隶). For the revolution is nowhere near complete.
    But Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, said【S10】______women were increasingly looking for househusbands.

A) caused             B) proud                 C) produced            D) mocked
E) carelessly         F) managerial            G) greedy              H) precaution
I) argued             J) transition            K) ambitious           L) tackled
M) growing            N) steadily              O) households
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答案A
解析 此处需要一个动词的过去分词，做谓语的一部分。根据其后的factors (因素)，可得出答案为caused，be caused by two main factors意为“由两个主要因素引起”。
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