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Professional women who put careers on hold for family or other reasons earn 18 percent less once they return to the workforce, a

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问题    Professional women who put careers on hold for family or other reasons
earn 18 percent less once they return to the workforce, a new survey reports.
The salary penalty for hopping off the career track is even high in the business    【M1】______.
world, where earnings drop an average of 28 percent, according to      
the survey of the New York-based Center for Work-Life Policy.                       【M2】______.
The drop in pay partly reflects many women’s decisions
to return to work in jobs with more responsibility, or to part-time                 【M3】______.
jobs. But it may also reflect what women are exiting the                            【M4】______.
workforce during the years when many men make the largest leaps
up the corporate ladder, the survey’s authors conclude. The price
for exiting work steepens the longer woman wait before returning.                   【M5】______.
Women who take less than a year off from their careers,
returns to the labor force at an average of 11 percent less pay.                    【M6】______.
But those who take off for three years or more return to pay averaging
37 percent less than what they originally earned, according to the survey.
The research is detailed in the March issue of the Harvard Business Review,
a copy of that was delivered Wednesday to The Associated Press.                     【M7】 ______.
The survey tapped more than 2,400 women nationwide, focusing
on those of a graduate degree, professional degree or                               【M8】______.
undergraduate degree with high honors. The group also surveyed
653 similarly qualified men as a means of drawing comparisons.
The notion which more executive women are                                           【M9】______.
choosing to exit the workforce has generated
considerable attention over the past year in business
circles. The survey, did this past summer, is one of the                            【M10】______.
first efforts to try to verify and explain women’s choices.
【M1】
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答案high改成higher
解析 联系上一句中的数字18 percent及本句后半部分，不难发现，这里应该使用high的比较级形式higher才合乎下文隐含的对比的意思。
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