Question

【题目】A

After watching my mother deal with our family of five, I can’t understand why her answer to the question, ＂What do you do?＂ is always, ＂Oh, I’m just a housewife.＂ JUST a housewife? Anyone who spends most of her time in meal preparation and clean-up, keeping the house clean, attending PTA meetings, leading a scout troop, playing a taxi driver to us kids when it’s time for school, musical lessons or the dentist, doing volunteer work for her community is not just a housewife. She’s the real Wonder Woman.

Why is it that so many mothers like mine regard themselves as second-class citizens or something similar? Where has this stereotype come from? Has our society made ＂going to work＂ outside the house more important than what a housewife must face each day? I would be curious to see what would happen if a housewife went on strike. Dishes would pile up and food in the house would run out. There would be no clean towels when needed. Walking and bus riding would increase.

I doubt if the man of the house would be able to take over. Oh, he would probably start out with the attitude that he can do just as good a job, but how long would that last? Not long, once he had to come home each night after work to more housework. There would be no coming home to a prepared meal; The kids would all be screaming for something to eat, clean clothes and more bus fare money. Once he quieted the kids, he’d have to clean the house, go shopping, make sure that kids got a bath, after cleaning out all the dog hairs from the bathtub. Once the kids were down for the night, he might be able to crawl into an unmade bed and try to read the morning newspaper.

【1】What does the writer’s mother NOT do according to the first paragraph?

A. Cooking. B. Tidying the house.

C. Driving a taxi. D. Some unpaid work.

【2】 The underlined word ＂stereotype＂ in the second paragraph can be replaced by ＂____________＂.

A. mother B. citizen C. similarity D. thought

【3】In the second paragraph, the writer suggests that ____________.

A. mothers are actually great women

B. our society looks down upon housewives

C. housewives should go on a strike

D. doing housework is not important at all

【4】 The possible main idea of the third paragraph is ____________.

A. men should share housework with their wives

B. attitude is not the only thing needed to do a job well

C. kids are the most challenging part of the housework

D. men are unlikely to handle the work of a housewife

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】A

【4】D

【解析】

【语篇导读】这是一篇议论文。本文主要是讲家庭主妇虽然每天做的只是家里的繁杂事物，但实则非常辛苦，然而人们对家庭主妇的观念却认为她们的工作并没有那么重要。

【1】事实细节题。＂playing a taxi driver to us kids when it’s time for school＂这句话的意思是当孩子们要上学的时候，她们会充当司机的角色，因此不包括driving a taxi(开出租车)。

【2】 词义猜测题。根据＂Why is it that so many mothers like mine regard themselves as second-class citizens or something similar?＂可知＂stereotype＂指代的是社会对家庭主妇评价低这一观念。

【3】推理判断题。从整个第二自然段，特别是＂Dishes would pile up and food in the house would run out. There would be no clean towels when needed.＂可以看出作者是想表达家庭主妇其实很伟大。

【4】段落大意题。从＂Once the kids were down for the night, he might be able to crawl into an unmade bed and try to read the morning newspaper.＂(当孩子们睡着之后，男人大概是会爬到没有整理的床铺上，然后开始阅读早上的报纸了。)可以看出男人对于家庭主妇的工作是不能够胜任的。