Explanation

The second sentence asserts that the role of women is generally left out from most analyses of industrialization. Given this omission, it follows that data about female labor would be hard to come by, making it difficult to measure its growth; therefore “track” is the correct answer for Blank (i). As for the other choices, since the author asserts that the role of female labor has routinely been overlooked, “ignore” cannot be correct. The conjunction “yet” in the first sentence indicates that the phrase containing Blank (i) contrasts with the importance of female labor; since “overestimate” emphasizes this importance, it also cannot be correct. The second sentence places research about female labor during industrialization into the larger context of research about women; the word “despite” that begins the sentence indicates that the latter runs counter to trends in the larger field. Neither “gaps” nor “disinterest” would provide the necessary contrast between the two, since “gaps” in the larger field of research about women would mirror the omission of the role of female labor and “disinterest” would explain such omissions. “Advances” does provide a contrast, and is thus the correct answer. In the sentence containing Blank (iii), “yet” indicates a contrast between the makeup of the workforce and the availability of data about the workforce. Because the author says that women outnumbered men in the workforce, the contrast would likely require data that
mostly concerned men. Of the three choices for Blank (iii), “incorporate data only” conveys this sense. The other two options can be ruled out because of the previous sentence’s assertion that female labor is ignored by economic analyses. With women being excluded from the data, it follows that it is mostly about men; therefore it does not make sense to assert that information about male labor is suppressed or too infrequently discussed. Thus the correct answer is track (Choice A), advances (Choice D), and incorporate data only (Choice G).
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Hi Carcass,

Usually, how much time to solve 3 blankers of easy, medium-difficult level?
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Take this time on AVERAGE. it depends on the question


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What is the meaning of-"the single most glaring omission"?

the role of female labor remains the single most glaring omission in most economic analyses of the history of European industrialization.


the role of female labor remains one of the most obvious missing argument or research to investigate in most economic analyses of the history of European industrialization.
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Female labor was essential to the growth of eighteenth-century European textile industries, yet it remains difficult to (i) _________. Despite significant (ii)_________ in research about women, the role of female labor remains the single most glaring omission in most economic analyses of the history of European industrialization. Women far outnumbered men as workers in the textile industries, yet wage indices and discussions of growth, cost of living, and the like (iii) _________ about the male labor force.

It is easier to do the second blank first because we have more information at our disposal.

We have the thought contrastor "despite" which inverts meaning of one part of the sentence in relation to the other. If the role of female labor remains the single most glaring omission in most economic analyses of the history of European Industrialization, then it should be despite significant advances in research about women. And we can conclude that wage indices and discussions of growth, cost of living, and the like incorporate data only about the male labor force. The other two options will provide the exact opposite of the required meaning. So we reject them. Having clarified all this, it is now easy to tackle the first blank. Since we don't have information about the role of women, it remains difficult to track.
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