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

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C
解析 此处应填入修饰majority的词，为形容词或分词。后文的插入语85％进一步说明了为了照顾孩子的已婚全职妈妈的比例，85％是绝大部分，故填入vast“巨大的，庞大的”。
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