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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
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A revolutionary effect

0 "While it is assumed that the mechanization of work has a 01i00____ effect on the lives of workers, there is evidence available to suggest that, on the contrary, mechanization has served to ___02i00 some of the traditional roles of women. 02br
00A. salutary … improve 02br
00B. dramatic … undermine 02br
00C. benign … revise 02br
00D. debilitating … weaken 02br
00E. revolutionary … reinforce" 02br
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00I know that the words for the two blank have to be opposite to each other, and the second one has to be positive. However, I don't see any choice fit to my assumption. 02br
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00The given answer is E. I am confused. 0-
  

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0 Instead of changing the traditional roles of women, mechanization has reinforced some of them. In contrast, the revolutionary effect changed many workers' roles. 0-

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0 Instead of changing the traditional roles of women, mechanization has reinforced some of them. In contrast, the revolutionary effect changed many workers' roles. 0-
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0 Ummm, to me, "has a revolutioanary effect on" indicates "has a positive effect on". 02br
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00So the answer E still fails to convince me. Uh... 05000 Bonehead, bonehead!010id6
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0 Well, you could take 'revolutionary' as the positive term, and the 'reinforcing' as the necessary contrary one (i.e. negative). 02br
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