填空题 Perhaps (31) are far more wives that I imagine who take it for (32) that housework is neither satisfying nor even important once the basic demands of hygiene and feeding have been (33) . But home and family is the one realm in (34) it is really difficult to shake free of one's upbringing and create new values. My parents' house was impeccably kept; cleanliness (35) a moral and social virtue, and personal untidiness, visibly old clothes, or long male hair provoked biting jocularity. If that (36) been all, maybe I could have adapted myself (37) housework on (38) easy-going, utilitarian basis, refusing the moral overtones but still believing in it as something constructive (38) it is part of creating a home. But at the same time my mother used to resent (40) it, called it drudgery, and convinced me that it wasn't fit activity for an intelligent being. I was the only child, and once I was at school there was no (41) why she should have continued (42) her will to remain housebound, unless, as I suspect, my father would not hear of her having a job of her own.
I can now begin to understand why a woman in a small suburban house, with no infants to look (43) , who does not (44) reading because she has not had much of an education, and who is intelligent (45) to find neighborly chit-chat boring, should carry the pursuit of microscopic specks of dust to the (46) of fanaticism in an (47) to fill hours and salvage her self-respect. My parents had not even the status-seeking impetus to send me to university that Joe's had; my mother (48) me to be "a nice quiet person who wouldn't be noticed (49) a crowd", and it was feared that university education (50) in ingratitude (independence).