Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do, and home has become
much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready made, washing can go to the laundry, food can
be bought cooked, canned or preserved, bread is baked and delivered by the baker, milk arrives on
the doorstep, meats can be had at the restaurant, the work's canteen, and the school dining-room.
It is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home, and his children rarely,
if ever, see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their father's
occupation, and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young
wage-earner often earns good money, and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence. In textile
areas it has long been customary for mothers to go out to work, but this practice has become so
widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a child's home life, the number of
married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years. With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. When mother works，economic advantages accrue, but children lose something of great value if mother's employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from
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1. The writer mentions home as workshop because .
A. fathers often pursue employment at home
B. parents had to make food and necessity themselves for their daily-life
C. many families produce goods at home for sale
D. both fathers and mothers in most families are workers
2. The word "accrue" in the sentence "When mother accrue," is closest in meaning to .
A. change
B. dwindle
C. double
D. increase
3. The chief reason that boys are seldom trained to follow their father's occupation is _______.
A. that children nowadays rarely see their fathers at their place of work
B. that fathers do not like to pursue employment at home any more
C. that there is a wide choice of employment for children
D. that children also like to have jobs outside
