Question

This is an excerpt from Emma Watson?s speech at the United Nations headquarters.

Today we are launching a campaign（called "He For She"）. I am reaching out to you because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved. This is the first campaign of this kind in the UN. We want to try to involve as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

I started questioning gender-based assumption a long time ago. When I was 8, I was confused being called bossy because I wanted to direct a play that we put on for our parents, but the boys were not. When I was 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media. At 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of a lot of sports teams because they didn’t want to appear masculine. At 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.

I decided that I was a feminist. This seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one? I’m from Britain and I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.

But sadly, I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights. No country in the world can yet say that they have achieved gender equality. These rights, I considered to be human rights, but I am one of the lucky ones.

My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume that I would end up nowhere because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today. We need more of those.

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend you a formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it will make them less of a man, or less of men. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive, both men and women should be free to be strong. This is what "He For She" is about. It’s about freedom.

You might be thinking: who is this Harry Potter girl? What is she doing at the UN? I’ve been asking myself at the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem and I want to make it better. And having seen what I’ve seen and given the chance, I feel my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said all that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.

In my nervousness for this speech and in my moment of doubt, I told myself firmly: If not me, who? If not now, when? If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you, I hope those words would be helpful. Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years, or for me it will be nearly 100 before women can be expected to be paid as same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the 16 years as children. At current rate, it will be until 2086 before all rural African girls can have secondary education. We are struggling for a uniting world, but the good news is we have a uniting movement. It is called “He For She”. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen and to ask yourself: if not me, who? If not now, when?

Thank you.

1.The campaign “He For She” aims to ________.

A. give women more freedom than men

B. give men more freedom than women

C. involve everyone to struggle for the end of gender inequality

D. involve as many men and boys as possible to live a free life.

2.We can know from Emma Watson’s personal experience that _________.

A. feminism has become an unpopular word

B. her parents didn’t love her because she was born a daughter

C. she was called bossy because she didn’t want to appear masculine

D. her mentors treated her the same way they treated boy students.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. Good men and women doing nothing leads to evil forces to develop.

B. Good men and women need to do nothing to defeat evil forces.

C. The victory of evil force leads to good men and women doing nothing.

D. It is necessary for good men and women do nothing to combat evil forces.

4.In the speech, Emma calls on people to ________.

A. participate in the campaign actively and take actions

B. admit that men and women should be equally paid

C. pay more attention to men suffering from mental illnesses

D. believe in her although she acted in the Harry Potter series

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：艾玛·沃特森的讲话摘录在联合国总部。推出一个活动（称为“他对她”）。我伸手给你，因为我们需要你的帮助。我们要结束性别不平等，而要做到这一点，我们需要每个人都参与进来。这是这种在联合国的第一战役。我们想尝试涉及许多男人和男孩可能是主张变革。倡导性别平等。

1. 细节理解题，从文中第二段中We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved. This is the first campaign of this kind in the UN. We want to try to involve as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change. 结束性别不平等，我們试图讓尽可能多的男性來加入到这场运动中，倡导这种改变。可知想讓每个人都力争结束性别中的不平等。故选C。

2. 推理判断题，从文中第七段Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive, both men and women should be free to be strong. This is what "He For She" is about. It’s about freedom 男性和女性都是敏感的，都需要强壮起来。這就是这场演講的主旨，是关于自由。可知是呼吁男女平等。故选D。

3. 推理判断题，文中第八段划线部分的句子內容是 all that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.所需要的一切邪恶力量的胜利是好男人和女人什么都不做。可以知道选A。

4. 主旨大意题，文中最后一段We are struggling for a uniting world, but the good news is we have a uniting movement. It is called “He For She”. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen and to ask yourself: if not me, who? If not now, when?呼吁人们积极加入到这场运动中并采取行动。故选A。

考点：考查呼吁性阅读。