题目内容
【题目】The statistics I’ve cited and the living examples are all too familiar to you. But what may not be so familiar will be the increasing number of women who are looking actively for advancement of for a new job in your offices. This woman may be equipped with professional skills and perhaps valuable experience. She will not be content to be Executive Assistant to Mr. Seldom Seen of the Assistant Vice President’s Girl Friday, who is the only one who comes in on Saturday.
She is the symbol of what I call the Second Wave of Feminism. She is the modern woman who is determined to be.
Her forerunner was the radical feminist who interpreted her trapped position as a female as oppression by the master class of men. Men, she believed, had created a domestic, servile role for women in order that men could have the career and the opportunity to participate in making the great decisions of society. Thus the radical feminist held that women through history had been oppressed and dehumanized, mainly because man chose to exploit his wife and the mother of his children. Sometimes it was deliberate exploitation and sometimes it was the innocence of never looking beneath the pretensions of life.
The radical feminists found strength in banding together. Coming to recognize each other for the first time, they could explore their own identities, realize their own power, and view the male and his system as the common enemy. The first phases of feminism in the last five years often took on this militant, class-warfare tone. Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and many others hammered home their ideas with a persistence that aroused and intrigued many of the brightest and most able women in the country. Consciousness-raising groups allowed women to explore both their identities and their dreams—and the two were often found in direct conflict.
What is the stereotyped role of American women? Marriage. A son. Two daughters. Breakfast. Ironing. Lunch. Bowling, maybe a garden club of for the very daring, non-credit courses in ceramics. Perhaps an occasional cocktail party. Dinner. Football or baseball on TV. Each day the same. Never any growth in expectations—unless it is growth because the husband has succeeded. The inevitable question: “Is that all there is to life?”
The rapid growth of many feminist organizations attests to the fact that these radical feminists had touched some vital nerves. The magazine “Ms.” was born in the year of the death of the magazine “Life.” But too often the consciousness-raising sessions became ends in themselves. Too often sexism reversed itself and man-hating was encouraged. Many had been with the male chauvinist.
It is not difficult, therefore, to detect a trend toward moderation. Consciousness-raising increasingly is regarded as a means to independence and fulfillment, rather than a ceremony of fulfillment itself. Genuine independence can be realized through competence, through finding a career, through the use of education. Remember that for many decades the education of women was not supposed to be useful.
【1】What was the main idea of this passage?
A. The Second Wave of Feminist.
B. Women’s Independent Spirits.
C. The Unity of Women.
D. The Action of Union.
【2】What was the author’s attitude toward the radical?
A. He supported it wholeheartedly.
B. He opposed it strongly.
C. He disapproved to some extent.
D. He ignored it completely.
【3】What does the word “militant” mean?
A. Aggressive. B. Ambitions.
C. Progressive. D. Independent.
【4】What was the radical feminist’s view point about the male?
A. Women were exploited by the male.
B. Women were independent of the male.
C. Women’s lives were deprived by the male.
D. The male were their common enemy.
【答案】
【1】A
【2】C
【3】A
【4】D
【解析】
试题分析：本文讲述了关于女权运动的第二次浪潮，其中极端女权主义者，将男性作为敌人来进行女权主义，但是目前这一形势趋于缓和。最后表达出作者的观点，女性的独立是靠踏实的工作和提升自己的能力实现的。
【1】主旨大意题。第二段在文中是过渡段，起承上启下的作用，引出文章主题，即第二次女权运动浪潮，故选A.
【2】推理判断题。从第六段可以看出，作者对这种极端女权主义者持一定批评态度，争取女权很容易转变为对男性的憎恨，而这是不合理的。最后一段提出作者的观点，真正的独立是靠踏实的工作实现的。故作者对这种激进的做法是不完全支持的。故选C.
【3】词义猜测题。A.好斗的 B.有雄心的 C.进步的 D.独立的。句意：在最近五年来女权主义者主要持有一种好斗的阶级斗争态度。故选A.
【4】细节分析题。第四段“…and view the male and his system as the common enemy.”可知，激进女权主义者视男性为共同的敌人。故选B.
