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浙江大学宁波理工学院英语平台答案 阅读部分 1. The status of women in ①colonial North America has been well studied and described and can be briefly②summarized. Throughout the colonial period there was a marked shortage of women, which varied with the regions and was always greatest in the frontier areas. This favorable ratio ③enhanced womens status and position and allowed them to pursue different careers. The Puritans, the religious sect that ④dominated the early british colonies in North America, regarded⑤idleness as a sin, and believed that life in an underdeveloped country made it absolutely necessary that each member of the community perform an ⑥economic function. Thus work for women, married or single, was not only approved, it was regarded as a civic duty. Puritan town councils expected idows and unattached women to be self supporting and for a long time provided needy spinsters with parcels of land. There was no social ⑦sanction against married women working; on the contrary, wives were expected to help their husbands in their trade and won social ⑧approval for doing extra work in or out of the home. Needy children, girls as well as boys, were indentured or apprenticed and were expected to work for their keep. The vast majority of women worked within their homes, where their labor produced most articles needed for the family. The entire colonial production of cloth and clothing and partially that of shoes was in the hands of women. In addition to these ⑨occupations, women were found in many ⑩different kinds of employment. They were butchers, silversmiths, gunsmiths and upholsterers. They ran mills, plantations, tanyards, shipyards, and every kind of shop, tavern, and boardinghouse. They were gatekeepers, jail keepers, sextons, journalists, printers, apothecaries, midwives, nurses, and teachers. In Roman times Britain had as many people as at its peak in the Middle Ages. For four centuries it was an integral part of a single political system that ①stretc