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Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern women tend to have the opposite effect, so they s

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问题     Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating
the modern women tend to have the opposite effect,
so they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. (1)_____
Machines have a certain novelty value, as toys for adults. (2)_____
It is certainly less tired to put clothes in a washing machine, (3)_____
but the time saved does not really amount too much: (4) ______
the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out,
stains removed by hand, water changed, clothes taken out, aired
and ironed. It would be more liberal to (5)_____
pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive,
since no capital investment is required.
    Nevertheless, if you really want to save time you do not make (6)_____
cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares
the image of the woman in the women’s magazine to the goods advertised (7)_____
by those periodicals, one realizes how useful a projected
image can be commercially. A careful balance has to be struck:
if you show a labor-saving device, follow it up
with a complex recipe on the next page; (8)_____
on any account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, (9)_____
but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness, emphasize (10)_____
the creative aspect of her function as a housewife.
(8)
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答案complex→complicated
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