题目内容
Sociologists(社会学家), working in western countries, have found that a large number of women wished they had been born men. The number is said to be as high as 60% in Germany.
"Women often wish they had the same chances as men have, and think it is still men's world. " said Dr. James Helen, one of the sociologists who did the study.
Many men say that they have more duties than women. A man has to make money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for men to be paid more. Some are even against their wives working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children cannot be taken good care of. If women take full-time jobs, they won't be able to do what they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing up the children.
Some women disagree. They say they want to get out of their homes and to have freedom to choose between work and home life. Women have the right of equal pay and equal chances.
Anne Harper has a very good job. She also believes in "Women's Liberation", "I don't wish I were a man," she says, "and I don't think many women do. But I do wish people would stop treating us like second-class people. At work, for example, we usually do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs only to men—usually they are the best ones. If you are a man, you have a much better chance of living a wonderful life. How many women scientists are there…or engineers?"
- 1.
Many men think ______.
- A.women can't do what men can
- B.men have to work much harder than women
- C.men can make money more easily than women
- D.women's duty is mainly to do housework at home
- A.
- 2.
Some women have different ideas. They say that ______.
- A.women need chances to go out of the home more often
- B.women want more freedom in deciding the kind of life they want
- C.if women are given equal pay, they can do everything instead of men
- D.women are no longer interested in taking care of their homes
- A.
- 3.
Anne Harper thought that ______.
- A.women should live a better life than men
- B.women should be really liberated
- C.women should be given better jobs than men
- D.women should live a more wonderful life than men
- A.
1.这是一道概括主旨的题,答此题的依据是第三段内容。该段开头两句说的是男子任务重,那么不言而喻,家务活和教育子女的任务应由妇女承担;另有一些男士则公开反对妇女外出工作。可见,不少男士认为妇女的主要职责是在家料理家务。
2.一些妇女持不同观点,文中第四段反映了她们的意见。这也正是文章的中心思想和作者的写作意图:争取人权平等,妇女自由,男女平等。
3.安妮·哈珀不希望自己是男士,但她希望社会像对待男人一样对待她。她的想法也正是作者的意图。如最后一段写道:She also believes in “Women's Liberation.”然后她又列举了许多事实,其立意还是为了说明这一正确论点。
In this century the traditional American family is constantly faced with the threat of breakdown. Some sociologists suggest that one little-noticed cause may be the introduction of the TV dinner.
Before the appearance of television sets, the American dinner was a big event for the family. In many homes, dinner time may be the only time when everyone got together. A typical dinner was usually in three stages. In the preparation stage, the children and Father frequently helped with setting while Mother put the last touches on the roast. In the eating stage, family members shared the day’s experiences and more than food was eaten. In this stage families got to know one another and made joint decisions around the dinner table, and thus the family unit was strengthened. In the cleaning-up stage, children or Father again gave their hands, so that their importance to the home community was clear. Unfortunately, all of these have been removed by a product-the television set.
By the beginning of the 1980s, the typical American family dinner was just twenty minutes long. The speed-up of the once-leisurely experiences is clearly connected to the pace of modern life and maybe a model of the modern life is the TV dinners-meals designed to be eaten from the beginning to the end of a half-hour program. The once family affair has now become nothing more than the use of a fork and knife.
1.
The underlined word in the second paragraph can be replaced by
A.big |
B.important |
C.combined |
D.separate |
2.
In the past, Americans tended to .
A.spend more time eating their food at dinner table |
B.eat more food than they have today |
C.spend more time talking about their day’s experiences at dinner table |
|
D.talk so much that they forgot to eat |
3.
The shortening of the dinner time in America is related to .
A.The TV programs |
B.the pace of modern life |
C.the wide use of electrical equipment |
D.the popularity of fast food |
4.
. The best title for this passage might be
A.Talk at Dinner Table |
B.TV Dinner |
C.Pace of Modern Life |
D.Problems Caused by TV |