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Working Wives

  Last week, we published an article about modern marriage.A recent survey showed that in England 51 percent of married women go out to work.People were asked what they thought of “working wives”.The results were as follows:

  We asked readers to write and tell us their opinions.Here are some of the hundreds of letters we received.?

  I’m a(woman)photographer.I make plenty of money, travel a lot, and meet a lot of people.I enjoy my work, and would hate to stay at home.I would never marry a man who wanted me to give up my work.

  O’Leary

  At present there are over 1,000,000 unemployed men in Britain.If a woman gets a job, she puts one more man out of work.Perhaps that man has a wife and twelve children to support.Let women stay at home where they belong to.

  Ted Stubbs

  I am a mother of twelve children.When I go to work, my husband looks after the children.He is very good with the children and enjoys staying at home with them.And I enjoy my job as a bus driver.

  Boot Battersea

  We are twin sisters, who both got married recently.One of us(Doreen)kept her job.The other(Doris)gave up her jobs.But Doris gets bored staying at home, and Doreen gets bored going out to work.So now Doreen works for a week, while Doris stays at home.Then Doris does Doreen’s job for a week, while Doreen stays at home.At work, they never know if it’s Doreen who’s working today!

  Doris & Doreen Bean Hendon

(1)

Last week we published an article about _________.

[  ]

A.

marriage nowadays

B.

working women

C.

working wives

D.

a strange marriage

(2)

The woman photographer would not marry a man who _________.

[  ]

A.

has less money than her

B.

likes staying at home

C.

is not very gentle

D.

wants her to stay at home

(3)

Ted Stubbs thought that women going out to work _________.

[  ]

A.

would make men lose chances for work

B.

would be better than men

C.

would weaken the right of the husband at home

D.

would be meaningless

(4)

When the bus driver goes to work, _________.

[  ]

A.

her children take care of themselves

B.

a nurse looks after her children instead of her

C.

her husband looks after the children

D.

she has to have everything ready for the children

Everyone knows about straight—A students. We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge of the Nerds(《菜鸟大反攻》),a comedy film satirizing(讽刺)social life in college. They get high grades,all right,but only by becoming dull laborers,their noses always stuck in a book. They are not good at social communication and look clumsy while doing sports.

How,then, do we account for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres?

Roman is on the tennis team at Fairmont Senior High School. She also sings in the school singing group, serves on the students’ union and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has kept up A’s in every subject. Melendres, a freshman at the University of New Mexico,was student-body president at Valley High School in Albuquerque. He played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the science fair,and meanwhile worked as a reporter on a local television station. Being a speech giver at the graduation ceremony,he achieved straight A’s in his regular classes,plus rewarding points for A’s in two college-level course.

How do super—achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains aren’t the only answer “Top grades don’t always go to the brightest students,” declares Herbert Walberg, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted major studies on super—achieving students “Knowing how to make the most of your innate(天生的)abilities counts far more. Much more.”

In fact,Walberg says,students with high IQ sometimes don’t do as well as classmates with lower IQ. For them,learning comes too easily and they never find out how to get down.

Hard work isn’t the whole story, either.“it’s not how long you sit there with the books open.”said one of the many—A students we interviewed. “It’s what you do while you’re sitting.” Indeed,some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates. The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn.

1.What can we conclude from the first paragraph?

A.Most TV programs and films are about straight-A students

B.People have unfavorable impression on straight—A students

C.Everyone knows about straight-A students from TV or films

D.Straight-A students are well admired by people in the society

2.What will be talked about after the last paragraph?

A.The interviews with more students

B.The role IQ plays in learning well

C.The techniques to be better learners

D.The achievements top students make

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A.IQ is more important than hard work in study

B.The brightest students can never get low glades

C.Top students certainly achieve all-around developments

D.Students with average IQ can become super-achievers

 

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