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专题四 阅读填句第3讲 学习活动类 限时20分钟 (2015·嘉兴二模) A. Shortened amount of work can make mothers devote more B. Compromise over career and family is important C. The trend of job choice among married females D. Comparison with father and mother on their sacrifice E. The wealthier the mothers are, the happier they will be F. How do career women balance their work and family 　　Two facts are often obscured in the public conversation devoted to women, work, and family. First, the vast majority of married mothers don’t want to work full-time. Second, married mothers who are able to cut back at work to accommodate their family’s needs tend to be happier. 1. ______ Mothers and fathers were asked by Pew if they had made family-related sacrifices for work—from quitting their job to turning down a promotion. Pew found that 65 percent of mothers had made such a family-related sacrifice, compared to 45 percent of fathers. Women married with children were more likely to be“very happy”with their lives if they made a family-related work sacrifice. By contrast, the happiness of married men was not significantly related to making work sacrifices for their families. 2. ______ What does this data really tell us? These results do not prove that spending less time at work makes women happier. It could be, for instance, that happier women are more likely to make work sacrifices, in the first place. Or it could be that more affluent(富裕的)mothers, who are more likely to be happy above a certain level of income, can spend more time with their families than poorer Moms. 3. ______ Most(married)mothers would prefer not to work full-time, and the most popular option for women, when it comes to juggling(平衡)work and family, is part-time work. A New York Times/CBS News survey this year found that 49 percent of mothers wished to work part-time, compared to 27 percent who wished to work full-time. 4. ______ This data suggests that one reason why married mothers who make work sacrifices are happier is that they