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    阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

    There’s no one reason why women return to school. Going back to school provides private and public benefits. College graduates, generally enjoy higher salaries, 1. (employ) more consistently, and work in nicer conditions. College-educated people vote more, give more to charity, and rely 2. (little) on government support.

    Making the switch from 3. (support) to supporting oneself can be a challenge, 4. often a necessary one. Financial 5. (dependent) for women is key, says Nancy Schlossberg, professor at University of Maryland. “I think 6. important for women to do some direct achievement, because chances are that women will live alone in later life, either divorced 7. never married.”

    To Schlossberg, education is critical in the long run. She says, “ You are going to do much better than before 8. you have a good education; you are going to be happier than before on condition that you have 9. education that enables you to do what you have to do in life. The question is 10. you are ready at this time to go for it.

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