[填空题]In old days secretaries were men. Then came World War I and male secretaries were (1)re by women. A man’s secretary became his personal servant, charged (2)w remembering his wife’s birthday and buying her presents, taking his suits to the dry-cleaners, telling (3)l on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay, and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand.
Now all this may be changed again. The computer and high technology are sweeping the office, taking with them much of the (4)ro work that secretaries did. An executive of a secretarial agency said that once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job of secretary will rise again (5)b it will involve only the high-powered work, and then men will want to do it again.
There are, in (6)f , men coming onto the job market as secretaries. John Bowman is the case. He joined a national grocery chain as (7)se <