After decades of decline, the share of mothers who stay home with their children has【C1】______ risen over the last several years

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问题     After decades of decline, the share of mothers who stay home with their children has【C1】______ risen over the last several years, a new report by the Pew Research Center has found. Pew 【C2】______the rise of stay-at-home mothers to a mix of economic and societal factors. The【C3】______majority of married stay-at-home mothers, 85%, say they are doing so by choice in order to care for their families. That rate is much lower for single stay-at-home mothers, at 41%.
    The report also found a【C4】______in women working because of the recession, a trend that has【C5】______as the economy recovers. Pew cited an increase in immigrant families, for whom it is more【C6】______to have a mother stay at home with her children, and an increase in the number of women who said they were disabled and unable to work.
    A companion public opinion survey by Pew, from 2013, found that mothers are much more likely than fathers to have【C7】______work hours, take a significant amount of time off, quit a job or, by a small【C8】______turn down a promotion in order to care for a child or family member.
    A second Pew survey, taken this year, found most in the general public think that children are better off with a parent at home. "This has important【C9】______ for the day to day lives of children," said D’Vera Conn, the report’s author.
    The report also looked at how stay-at-home versus working moms use their time. Those at home spend more time on housework, child care,【C10】______and sleep.
A) reduced E) interim I) leisure M) abnormally
B) impetus F) steadily J) drop N) attributed
C) vast G) common K) intuitions O) margin
D) implications H) cling L) lingered
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答案O

解析 空格前的a表明应填入可数名词单数形式。by a small margin是固定搭配,意为“以较小的差数”,句子表示“虽然差距不大,妈妈比爸爸更有可能会为了照顾孩子或家人拒绝升职”。
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