A. pushing B. remain C. pregnant D. humiliating

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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. [br] 【C3】

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答案 C

解析由空格前的were可推断空格处应填入形容词或分词。空格前的even提示，时间状语从句部分表达的是比上文描述的妇女们平时的工作条件更为糟糕的情况，词库中的pregnant“怀孕的”代入，表示“即使是在怀孕的时候也不曾停止过工作”，符合语境。下一段首句的pregnant women也印证了答案。

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