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A recent study shows that an unequal share of household chores is still the norm in many households, despite the fact that many more women now have jobs. In a survey of 1,256 people ages between 18 and 65, men said they contributed an average of 37% of the total housework, while the women estimated their share to be nearly double that, at 70%. This ratio was not affected by whether the woman was working or not. When they were asked what they thought was a fair division of labour, women with jobs felt that housework should be shared equally between male and female partners. Women who did not work outside the home were satisfied to perform 80% - the majority of the household work - if their husbands did remainder. Research has shown that, if levels increase beyond these percentages, women become unhappy and anxious, and feel they are unimportant.After marriage, a woman is reported to increase her household workload by 14 hours per week, but for men the amount is just 90 minutes. So the division of labour becomes unbalanced, as a man's share increases much less than the woman's. It is the inequality and loss of respect, not the actual number of hours, which leads to anxiety and depression. The research describes housework as thankless and unfulfilling. Activities included in the study were cooking, cleaning, shopping, doing laundry, washing up and childcare. Women who have jobs report that they feel overworked by these chores in addition to their professional duties. In contrast, full-time homemakers frequently anticipate going back to work when the children grow up. Distress for this group is caused by losing the teamwork in the marriage.

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He looks very aggressive and threatening and so his soft, gentle voice is rather......

If you still want to maintain this relationship, you ____ behave improperly like that.

Whenever problems come up, we discuss frankly and find _______quickly.

In case you’ve suffered from the injury, you __________ see the doctor today.

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He was in a great hurry and had no time to think it over. Otherwise, he had found another way out.

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In the UK, poor air quality is responsible _______ some 40,000 deaths each year.

Timmy has become confident as a result of his success.

The only thing that kept us out of prison was the way he spoke the local dialect.

⇒ But for his command …

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Women nowadays have more advantages than those in the past. For example, our great grandmothers were not allowed to go to school or to work to earn their own living. (1) ______, they had to depend on their husbands financially. Modern women, on the contrary, can get good education, have their own careers, and (2) ______ their interests. They can even take good positions in politics if they are competent (3) ______ it. However, women living in our modern society have their (4) ______ too. Today women work harder than their great grandmothers so that they can gain the (5) ______ between working life and family life.

We are having ________ terrible weather which is quite strange. Usually ______ weather in UK is not this bad.

In 1999, the king's Chaipattana Aerator obtained Thai ____ for his rain-making techniques.

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I think a good health is important, and so is education while money, to some extent, is not.

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If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children. However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling. Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.

Closure of schools took place _____ falling numbers of pupils.