Perhaps (31) are far more wives that I imagine who take it for (32) that housework is neither satisfying nor even important once the basic demands of hygiene and feeding have been (33) . But home and family is the one realm in (34) it is really difficult to shake free of one’s upbringing and create new values. My parents’ house was impeccably kept; cleanliness (35) a moral and social virtue, and personal untidiness, visibly old clothes, or long male hair provoked biting jocularity. If that (36) been all, maybe I could have adapted myself (37) housework on (38) easy-going, utilitarian basis, refusing the moral overtones but still believing in it as something constructive (38) it is part of creating a home. But at the same time my mother used to resent (40) it, called it drudgery, and convinced me that it wasn’t fit activity for an intelligent being. I was the only child, and
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