题目内容
Marry workers were organized to clear away ________ remained of the World Trade Centre.
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解析:
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句子后半部分是一个宾语从句,作clear away的宾语,且从句中缺少主语,故此处用what. |
In the past, American families tended to be quite large. Parents raising five or more children were common. Over the years, the size of the family has decreased. One reason for this is an increase in the cost of living. On the average, children attend schools for more years than they used to, making them financially dependent on their families longer. Moreover, children nowadays are better dressed and have more money to spend on entertainment. The parents usually take the responsibility for all the expenses. Meanwhile, families are less close than they used to be. More and more American mothers work away from home. The break up of the family occurs when the parents divorce. A lot of children in the U. S. live part of their young lives with only one parent. Broken families usually result in problems for children and parents alike. Children blame themselves when their parents separate. They grow up feeling unsettled as they are moved back and forth between parents. Usually one parent is responsible for raising the children. These single parents must care for the children’s emotional and psychological needs while also supporting them financially. This is very demanding and leaves very little time for the parent’s own personal interests. Single parents often marry other single parents. In this type of family, unrelated children are forced to develop brother or sister relationship. The situations of many American families today are not good. However, recent signs indicate that things are getting better. The divorce rate is declining. The rate of childbirth is rising. Perhaps Americans have learned how important families are.
【小题1】In the past, American families tended to be ____.
| A.quite small | B.medium sized | C.quite large | D.small |
| A.children attend school for more years | B.children are better dressed |
| C.children spend more money on entertainment | D.all of the above |
| A.become worse | B.remain the same |
| C.get better | D.keep unchanged |
| A.American Children | B.American Families |
| C.American Mother | D.American Parents |
Modern society cannot well do without the contribution that women can make in the professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage of nurses and teachers, to mention only two of the occupations followed by women. It is a waste to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and be lost forever to her profession. The training, it is true, will help her in her duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful. Many factories and shops, too, are largely staffed by women, many of them married. While here the question of training is not so important, industry and trade would be seriously short of staff if married women did not work.
We can see then that there are good reasons for regarding it as desirable that married women should have some occupation outside the home. However, there are serious objections. Schools do not keep children occupied the whole day and school holidays are long. The mother’s working day will almost certainly end well after the school day and her holiday will not begin at the same time as her children’s. There will be therefore a period when children are not taken care of unless a substitute for the mother can be found, or unless it becomes more generally possible for women to work part-time. There seem to be some grounds for believing that there is more bad behavior among the children of working mothers than among those of mothers who stay at home, but more evidence is required before we can be certain of this. What we can be certain of, however, is that many more will continue to do so.
【小题1】According to the writer, women nurses and teachers ought to carry on their occupation after marriage because______.
| A.they are not allowed to give up their jobs |
| B.their training should not be wasted |
| C.they want to make a living by themselves |
| D.they must still improve themselves as mothers |
| A.schools keep children occupied the whole day |
| B.their mothers change their occupation |
| C.their mothers do not work full time |
| D.their mothers should stay at home |
| A.if someone takes over the mother’s occupation |
| B.if no mother works all day |
| C.if no one takes care of the children for the mother |
| D.if someone takes care of the children for the mother |
| A.possibly less than | B.about the same as |
| C.a little greater than | D.certainly more than |