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大阪公立大学の入試問題なのですが、問4の【ウ】の並び替えがわかりません。また，【ウ】を含めた一文の文構造も教えていただけると嬉しいです🙇‍♀️

問4 次の語を並べ替え, 空所[イ][ゥ]に入る英文を完成し, その英文の2番
目と7番目に来る語を番号で答えよ。
[イ]
accustomed 2 their
(⑤5) spending (6)
[ゥ]
① herbivore
(5)
as
income
(3) disposable 4) are
(7) to
(2) characterized ③
(6) obsessed
with
7 fashion
(4) men

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the mass media has often turned
to gendered caricatures* to explain the decline in marriage and birth rates. Young
women [7] to marry were dubbed* "parasite singles," while young men
with little desire to wed were christened* "(1) herbivores." The majority of single
women in their twenties and thirties live in their parents' homes and [] on
themselves: traveling, dining out, and buying expensive cosmetics and fashions.
Most receive free housekeeping, laundry services, and meals from their parents.
They are in no hurry to marry, [] they are reluctant to give up their
enjoyable lifestyles to become domestic housewives with the responsibility of
nurturing everyone but themselves. Media critics and authorities blame Japan's
population problems on the selfishness of these "parasite singles." Meanwhile,
the number of heterosexual men in their twenties and thirties who are reluctant
to pursue marriage or even sexual relations are called "herbivores" because, like
grass-eating animals, they are uninterested in consuming flesh. The media has
[] and grooming* and as quiet and submissive*, traits associated with
femininity. Nevertheless, unmarried men began embracing* the term themselves;
one 2012 survey of four hundred single men around age irty reported that a full
75 percent self-identified as herbivores.

Answer 1

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まいどあり

その選択肢で考えると、
The media has [characterized herbivore as men obsessed with fashion] and grooming,
だと思います。

２番目①herbivore
７番目⑦fashion

全体としては、
The media has characterized herbivore as men obsessed with fashion and grooming, and (The media has characterized herbivore) as quiet and submissive, traits associated with femininity.

traits associated with femininityは既出の形容詞句である、
obsessed with fashion and grooming
quiet and submissive
らとイコールの関係にあり、「それらの特徴、気質は女性らしさに関連する、連想する」とイメージすればいいと思います。

マスコミは草食動物を、ファッションや身だしなみに執着する男性で、物静かでおとなしい、特徴として女性らしさを連想させると評している。

大体、こんな感じだと思います。

ところで、herbivoreは可算名詞なので、単数形で用いる場合は冠詞が必要なはずなのですが、その選択肢には冠詞がどこにもないんです。
大学の入試問題ということで、間違いではないのでしょうが、ちょっと不思議な気もします。

私からは以上です。参考になれば幸いです。

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詳しい説明ありがとうございます！
andとasが続いていて、文の構造がわからなくなってしまっていたので助かりました！！