填空题

The traditional belief that a woman’s place is in the home and that a woman ought not to go out to work can hardly be reasonably (26) in present conditions. It is said that it is a woman’s task to care for the children, but families today (27) to be small. Thus a woman’s whole period of (28) may occur within five years. Furthermore, with (29) education from the age of five or six her role as chief educator of her children soon (30)
It might be argued that the house-proud woman would still find plenty to do about the home. That may be so, but it is certainly no longer necessary for a woman to (31) her whole life cooking, cleaning, mending and sewing.
Apart from women’s own happiness, the (32) of the community must be considered. Modem society cannot do well without the (33) that women can make in professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage of nurses and teachers, to mention only two of the occupations followed by women. It is extremely (34) to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and be lost forever to her profession. The training, it is true, will help her in duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful. Many factories and shops, too, are largely (35) by women, many of them married. While here the question of training is not so important, industry and trade would be seriously short of staff if married women did not work.