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After decades of decline, the share of mothers who stay home with their chil

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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 [br] 【C5】
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答案 L
解析 空格前的has表明此处应填入分词，充当that定语从句中的谓语。空格前后的the recession(经济衰退期)与as the economy recovers(经济恢复时)形成对比，a trend(趋势)是第39空的同位语，补充说明职业女性的这种趋势在经济恢复时“仍然存在”，故lingered“逗留”与之搭配后符合逻辑。而reduced虽然表达了下降的含义，但这里的主语是trend，本身表示上文“下降”的意义。
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