Directions (1-10): Fill in the blanks choosing the word that is most appropriate in the context of the passage.
One the most superficial level, the roles of male and female are increasingly (1)....... in the modern household. The modern man is found as never before as a (2).......... for wife and mother – looking (3)......... babies, washing dishes, cooking meals and performing a whole series of what once were considered as female duties. The woman, meanwhile, takes over more and more of the big decisions, controlling them indirectly when she cannot do so directly. Outside the (4)......, one sees a similar blurring or overlapping of functions. While men (5).................... dresses and brew (6)........................... cosmetics, women become doctors, lawyers, bank cashiers and executives. “Women now fill many (7)................ roles,” writes the psychologist, Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, “and expect their husbands to assume many of the (8)............... once reserved (9)................... their own sex.” They seem an expanding aggressive force, seizing new territories like a (10).................. army, while men, more and more on the defensive, are hardly able to hold their own and gratefully accept assignments from their new rulers.