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Female labor was essential to the growth of eighteenth-century European textile industries, yet it remains difcult to (i)__________. Despite signifcant (ii)___________in research about women, the role of female labor remains the single most glaring omission in most economic analyses of the history of European industrialization. Women far outnumbered men as workers in the textile industries, yet wage indices and discussions of growth, cost of living, and the like (iii)__________ about the male labor force.
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Blank (i)
| A. track |
| B. overestimate |
| C. ignore |
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| D. advances |
| E. gaps |
| F. disinterest |
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| G. incorporate data only |
| H. suppress most information |
| I. too rarely talk |
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The second sentence asserts that the role of women is generally lef out from most analyses of industrialization. Given this omission, it follows that data about female labor would be hard to come by, making it difcult to measure its growth; therefore “track” is the correct answer for Blank (i). As for the other choices, since the author asserts that the role of female labor has routinely been overlooked, “ignore” cannot be correct. The conjunction “yet” in the frst sentence indicates that the phrase containing Blank (i) contrasts with the importance of female labor; since “overestimate” emphasizes this importance, it also cannot be correct. Te second sentence places research about female labor during industrialization into the larger context of research about women; the word “despite” that begins the sentence indicates that the latter runs counter to trends in the larger feld. Neither “gaps” nor “disinterest” would provide the necessary contrast between the two, since “gaps” in the larger feld of research about women would mirror the omission of the role of female labor and “disinterest” would explain such omissions.
“Advances” does provide a contrast, and is thus the correct answer. In the sentence containing Blank (iii), “yet” indicates a contrast between the makeup of the workforce and the availability of data about the workforce. Because the author says that women outnumbered men in the workforce, the contrast would likely require data that mostly concerned men. Of the three choices for Blank (iii), “incorporate data only” conveys this sense. The other two options can be ruled out because of the previous sentence’s assertion that female labor is ignored by economic analyses. With women being excluded from the data, it follows that it is mostly about men; therefore it does not make sense to assert that information about male labor is suppressed or too infrequently discussed.
Thus the correct answer is track (Choice A), advances (Choice D), and incorporate data only (Choice G).
The second sentence asserts that the role of women is generally lef out from most analyses of industrialization. Given this omission, it follows that data about female labor would be hard to come by, making it difcult to measure its growth; therefore “track” is the correct answer for Blank (i). As for the other choices, since the author asserts that the role of female labor has routinely been overlooked, “ignore” cannot be correct. The conjunction “yet” in the frst sentence indicates that the phrase containing Blank (i) contrasts with the importance of female labor; since “overestimate” emphasizes this importance, it also cannot be correct. Te second sentence places research about female labor during industrialization into the larger context of research about women; the word “despite” that begins the sentence indicates that the latter runs counter to trends in the larger feld. Neither “gaps” nor “disinterest” would provide the necessary contrast between the two, since “gaps” in the larger feld of research about women would mirror the omission of the role of female labor and “disinterest” would explain such omissions.
“Advances” does provide a contrast, and is thus the correct answer. In the sentence containing Blank (iii), “yet” indicates a contrast between the makeup of the workforce and the availability of data about the workforce. Because the author says that women outnumbered men in the workforce, the contrast would likely require data that mostly concerned men. Of the three choices for Blank (iii), “incorporate data only” conveys this sense. The other two options can be ruled out because of the previous sentence’s assertion that female labor is ignored by economic analyses. With women being excluded from the data, it follows that it is mostly about men; therefore it does not make sense to assert that information about male labor is suppressed or too infrequently discussed.
Thus the correct answer is track (Choice A), advances (Choice D), and incorporate data only (Choice G).
