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When Carly Fiorina became Hewlett-Packard’s first female chief executive off

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问题     When Carly Fiorina became Hewlett-Packard’s first female chief executive officer, the existence of her househusband, Frank Fiorina, who had retired early from AT&T to support her career, was a mini-sensation (小轰动); now this arrangement isn’t【S1】______at all. Seven of the 18 women who are【S2】______CEOs of Fortune 500 companies—including Xerox’s Ursula Burns and PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi—have, or at some point have had, a stay-at-home husband. So do scores of【S3】______CEOs of smaller companies and women in other senior executive jobs.
    This role change is【S4】______more and more as women edge past men at work. Women now【S5】______a majority of jobs in the US, including 51.4 percent of managerial and professional【S6】______, according to US Census Bureau data. Some 23 percent of wives now earn more than their husbands. And this earnings trend is more dramatic among younger people. Women 30 and under make more money, on【S7】______, than their male counterparts (年龄相当的人) in many large cities in the US.
    During the recent【S8】______, three men lost their jobs for every woman. Many unemployed fathers have ended up caring for their children full-time while their wives are the【S9】______wage earners. The number of men in the US who【S10】______care for children under age five increased to 32 percent in 2010 from 19 percent in 1988, according to Census figures.
A) appealing I) occupations
B) average J) occurring
C) conflict K) positions
D) currently L) primary
E) elementary M) recession
F) ensure N) regularly
G) female O) unusual
H) fill [br] 【S6】
选项
答案 K
解析 空格前是两个并列的形容词managerial和professional，此处需要填入名词形式，前文提到jobs，此处应填入和工作相关的名词。选项中的occupations和positions都和工作相关，occupations意为“职业”，positions意为“位置，职位”，联系空格前的形容词，“管理岗位”、“专业技术职位”更符合表达习惯，故选择positions。备选项中conflict意为“冲突，矛盾，斗争”，recession意为“衰退，不景气”，均不能与managerial和professional搭配，可排除。
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