2014年GCT英语日常练习（9.6）

In the United States, the first day nursery was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the first half of the 19th century, most of __31__ were charitable. Both in Europe and in the U. S., the day-nursery movement received great encouragement during the First World War, when __32__ of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented numbers of women. The number of nurseries in the U. S. rose __33__ , which was accomplished without any government aid. During the years following the First World War, __34__ , Federal State, and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control __35__ the day nurseries. The __36__ of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were again called upon to replace men in the factories. On this __37__ the U.S. government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools, allocating $ 6,000,000 in July, 1942, for a nursery-school program for the children of working mothers. By the end of the war, more than 100,000 children were being cared __38__ in day-care centers receiving Federal __39__ . Soon afterward, the Federal government drastically cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later abolished them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their __40__ at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled.

31. [A] those [B] them [C] what [D] which

32. [A] sources [B] abundance [C] shortage [D] excess

33. [A] highly [B] sharply [C] predominantly [D] militantly

34. [A] therefore [B] consequently [C] however [D] moreover

35. [A] over [B] in [C] at [D] about

36. [A] end [B] outbreak [C] breakthrough [D] breakdown

37. [A] circumstance [B] occasion [C] case [D] situation

38. [A] by [B] after [C] of [D] for

39. [A] pensions [B] subsidies [C] revenues [D] budgets

40. [A] nurseries [B] homes [C] jobs [D] children

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