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  3. It is not long since conditions in the mines were worse than they are now. There are still (1)_____ a few very old women who in

It is not long since conditions in the mines were worse than they are now. There are still (1)_____ a few very old women who in

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问题     It is not long since conditions in the mines were worse than they are now. There are still (1)_____ a few very old women who in their youth have worked(2)______, with harness round their waists, and a chain(3)_____ passed between their legs, crawling on all(4)_____ and dragging tugs of coal. They used to go on(5)_____ this even when they were pregnant.
    And(6)_____ now, if coal could not be produced without pregnant women dragging it (7)_____ and fro, I fancy we should let them do it (8)_____ than deprive ourselves of coal. But most of the time, of course, we(9)_____ to forget that they were doing it. It is the(10)_____ with all types of manual work; it keep us alive, and we are (11)_____ of its existence. More than anything else perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of manual worker, not only because it is so(12)______ necessary and yet so silent,(13)_____ we are capable(14)_____ forgetting it as we forget the blood in our(15)______. In a way it is even (16)_____ to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own(17)_____ as an "intellectual" and a superior person generally. For it is brought(18)_____ to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out(19)_____ superior persons can(20)_____ superior.
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选项 A、exciting
B、bewildering
C、humiliating
D、fascinating
答案C
解析 上文谈到矿工的工作环境恶劣，又常被人们忽略。下文则谈到人们在看他们劳动的时候，会怀疑自身的优越感。可见，四个选项中只有humiliating“羞耻的”符合句意．指“在某种程度上，看矿工工作会让人感到羞耻(而怀疑自己所谓的优越感)”。exciting“兴奋的”；bewildering“迷惑的”：fascinating“迷人的”。
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