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  3. For to be a woman is to have interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from

For to be a woman is to have interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from

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问题     For to be a woman is to have interests and duties, raying out in all
directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from the hub of
a wheel. The pattern of our lives is essentially circling. We must be (1)______
opened to all points of the compass, husband, children, friends, home, com- (2)______
munity; we must be stretched out, exposed, sensible like a spider’s web to (3) ______
each breeze that blows, to each call that comes. How difficult it is for us,
then, to achieve a balance in the mid of these contradictory tensions, and yet (4)______
how necessary for the proper function of our lives. (5)______
    With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to under
stand why saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing
inherent to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do (6)______
primarily with distractions. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of
children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relation
ships with their myriads pulls—woman’s normal occupations in general run (7)______
against to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. The problem is (8)______
not merely one of Woman and Career, Woman and the Home, Woman and
Independence. It is more basically how to remain wholly in the midst of (9)______
the distractions of life; how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal
forces tent to pull one off the center; and how to remain strong, no matter
whatever shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel. (10)______
(5)
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答案function — functioning
解析 虽然从词性上用function没有错，但从词义上来看则有些不妥。这半句话的意思应该是“对于我们生活的正常进行是非常必要的”，因此这里最好将function变成functioning强调动作的意味，这也就是名词和动名词的差异之一：名词强调事实，而动名词强调动作感。
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