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The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there had been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and convenient foods.
This important change in women's life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interest of each of them.
1．When she was over fifty, the late 19th century mother ________.
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A．would be healthy enough to take up paid. employment
B．was usually expected to die fairly soon
C．would expect to work until she died
D．was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one
2．According to the passage, the woman of today usually ________.
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A．marries instead of getting paid work
B．marries before she is twenty-five
C．has more children under fifteen
D．has too few children
3．One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ________.
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A．is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B．does not like children herself
C．need not worry about food for her children
D．can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty
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1．D A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work.从这一段中可以看出，她五十多岁了，不可能再找到工作。 2．B A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties,…Today women marry younger从这里看出，今天的妇女结婚早于25岁。 3．A Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty.从这句话可以看出，一个妇女最小的孩子大了，她还很年轻。这样她才可以参加工作。 |
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