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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Another sentence completion question
0 Dear masters, here is another sentence completion question. Hope you will help me solve it again. Thank you so much in advance. 02 br
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00 "Despite some allowances for occupational mobility, the normal expectation of seventeenth-century English society was that the child's vocation would develop along familial lines; ---- the career of one's parents was therefore ----. 02 br
00 A. 00 disagreement with .. forbidden 02 br
00 B. 00 divergence from .. limited 01 b 02 b 02 br
00 C. 00 preparation for .. difficult 02 br
00 D. 00 reliance on .. unanticipated 02 br
00 E. 00 assumption of .. premature" 00 02 br
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00 The answer is B. But, since I don't get what "child's vocation" is, and what the relationsh 00 ip of "occupational mobility" and "the child's vocation would develop along familial lines" is, I have no idea why C is correct. 0-
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00 "Despite some allowances for occupational mobility, the normal expectation of seventeenth-century English society was that the child's vocation would develop along familial lines; ---- the career of one's parents was therefore ----. 02 br
00 A. 00 disagreement with .. forbidden 02 br
00 B. 00 divergence from .. limited 01 b 02 b 02 br
00 C. 00 preparation for .. difficult 02 br
00 D. 00 reliance on .. unanticipated 02 br
00 E. 00 assumption of .. premature" 00 02 br
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00 The answer is B. But, since I don't get what "child's vocation" is, and what the relationsh 00 ip of "occupational mobility" and "the child's vocation would develop along familial lines" is, I have no idea why C is correct. 0-
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02 br 02 br 00 '.... 02 br 02 br 00 B is correct. 02 br 02 br 00 C is not correct.
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- 02 br 02 br 00 B is correct.
- 02 br 02 br 00 C is not correct.
- Preparation for the career of one's parents would not necessarily be difficult.
- The assumption would be that preparation for a career that is already in the family would be easier than preparation for a different career; and the society's expectation that the child would follow in the career of the parents would likely disprove the child's choosing an occupation that differed from that of the parents.
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0 'Occupational mobility': the ability to move from one occupation (job) to another. 02 br
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00 'The child's vocation...' Vocation means 'calling', which means: a profession, a job, an occupation. 02 br
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00 '.... would develop along familial lines': in 17th century Enlish society, the child would normally take up the same occupation as the parents. 0
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00 'The child's vocation...' Vocation means 'calling', which means: a profession, a job, an occupation. 02 br
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00 '.... would develop along familial lines': in 17th century Enlish society, the child would normally take up the same occupation as the parents. 0
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0 Thank you so much! 05 0 02 br
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00 I was intented to say "why B is correct", but accidentally I wrote: "why C is correct". I am so sorry. (You know, our "edit" function is limited. I Just don't get why.) 02 br
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00 But that's okay. It didn't cause any trouble to my understanding your illumination. Thank you. 02 br
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00 I was intented to say "why B is correct", but accidentally I wrote: "why C is correct". I am so sorry. (You know, our "edit" function is limited. I Just don't get why.) 02 br
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00 But that's okay. It didn't cause any trouble to my understanding your illumination. Thank you. 02 br
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0 I'm glad to be of some help, Jeff. You understood correctly. 02 br
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00 Yes, we all await a working edit button. 0-
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00 Yes, we all await a working edit button. 0-
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