Some women ()(本来能够挣一份很好的工资) in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sale of the family.

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Some women ()(本来能够挣一份很好的工资) in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sale of the family.


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4.Passage FourEqual pay for equal work is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are looked down upon by the society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work.People who hold the opposite opinion(mainly men)have an answer to this. They say that men have more responsibility than women; a married man is expected to earn money to support his family and to make important decisions, and therefore it is right for men to be paid more. There are some people who hold even stronger opinion than this and are against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time job, they will be unable to do the things they are supposed to. Women are best at making a comfortable home and bringing up children. They will have to give up their present position in society."This is exactly what they want to give up, "the women who disagree say. "They want to escape from the limited place which society expects them to fill, and to have freedom to choose between a job and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the right of equal pay and equal opportunities."These women have expressed their opinions forcefully by using the famous saying, "All men are created equal." They point out that the meaning of this sentence is "all human beings are created equal."48. The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to demand that______.A. women's work shouldn't be harder than men'sB. men should be paid less than womenC. people doing harder work should earn moreD. men and women should be paid the same amount of money for the same work

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  • 第1题:

    请阅读短文,完成此题。
    It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
    Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
    Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.

    What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
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    A.The mechanization of work has a revolutionary eftct.
    B.The social mechanization would "aftct women's lives.
    C.The social status of women has changed.
    D.Observers have different ideas about the effect of social mechanizatiou.

    答案:B
    解析:
    第一段讲到,普遍认为:劳动的机械化对操作机器的人以及引进机器的社会都有革命性的影响。工业中雇佣妇女使她们从家务这样的传统领域中解放出来,并且从根本上改善了她们在社会上的地位。接着讲到,观察者关于社会机械化对妇女的影响持有不同观点,但他们一致认为这必将改变妇女们的生活。由此可知,第一段主要讲了社会机械化对妇女的影响,B项符合。

  • 第2题:

    根据下面资料,回答
    For many women choosing whether to work or not to work outside their home is a luxury; they must work to survive. Others face a hard decision. Perhaps the choice has to do with economics. One husband said, "Marge and I decided after careful consideration that for her to go back to work at this moment was an extravagance. We couldn′t afford it." With two preschool children, it soon became clear in their figuring that with babysitters, transportation, and increased taxes, rather than having more money, they might actually end up with less.
    Economic factors are usually the first to be considered, but they are not the most important. The most important aspects of the decision have to do with the emotional needs of each member of the family. It is in this area that husbands and wives find themselves having to face many confusing and conflicting feelings.
    There are many women who find that homemaking is boring or who feel imprisoned if they have to stay home with a young child or several children. On the other hand, there are women who think that homemaking gives them the deepest satisfaction.
    From my own experience, I would like to suggest that sometimes the decision to go back to work is made in too much haste. There are few decisions that I now regret more. I wasn′t mature enough to see how much I could have gained at home. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I had allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl′s eyes.
    Why did Marge and her husband think it an extravagance for Marge to go back to work?

    A.Because they might pay more than they earned on the whole.
    B.Because they don't have the baby sitter to help them.
    C.Because Marge has to take care of their children at home.
    D.Because Marge has to pay more transportation fares.

    答案:A
    解析:
    细节题。由第一段“rather than having more money,they might actually end up with less”可知选A。

  • 第3题:

    根据下面资料,回答
    For many women choosing whether to work or not to work outside their home is a luxury; they must work to survive. Others face a hard decision. Perhaps the choice has to do with economics. One husband said, "Marge and I decided after careful consideration that for her to go back to work at this moment was an extravagance. We couldn′t afford it." With two preschool children, it soon became clear in their figuring that with babysitters, transportation, and increased taxes, rather than having more money, they might actually end up with less.
    Economic factors are usually the first to be considered, but they are not the most important. The most important aspects of the decision have to do with the emotional needs of each member of the family. It is in this area that husbands and wives find themselves having to face many confusing and conflicting feelings.
    There are many women who find that homemaking is boring or who feel imprisoned if they have to stay home with a young child or several children. On the other hand, there are women who think that homemaking gives them the deepest satisfaction.
    From my own experience, I would like to suggest that sometimes the decision to go back to work is made in too much haste. There are few decisions that I now regret more. I wasn′t mature enough to see how much I could have gained at home. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I had allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl′s eyes.
    What are the two major considerations in deciding whether women should out to work?

    A.The economic factor and their social status in their life.
    B.The social status and the family role they play in the family.
    C.The economic factor and the emotional needs of family members.
    D.The social status and the requirements of the society.

    答案:C
    解析:
    细节题。由第二段可知,经济是第一原因,但最重要的因素是家庭成员的情感需求。

  • 第4题:

    根据下面资料,回答
    For many women choosing whether to work or not to work outside their home is a luxury; they must work to survive. Others face a hard decision. Perhaps the choice has to do with economics. One husband said, "Marge and I decided after careful consideration that for her to go back to work at this moment was an extravagance. We couldn′t afford it." With two preschool children, it soon became clear in their figuring that with babysitters, transportation, and increased taxes, rather than having more money, they might actually end up with less.
    Economic factors are usually the first to be considered, but they are not the most important. The most important aspects of the decision have to do with the emotional needs of each member of the family. It is in this area that husbands and wives find themselves having to face many confusing and conflicting feelings.
    There are many women who find that homemaking is boring or who feel imprisoned if they have to stay home with a young child or several children. On the other hand, there are women who think that homemaking gives them the deepest satisfaction.
    From my own experience, I would like to suggest that sometimes the decision to go back to work is made in too much haste. There are few decisions that I now regret more. I wasn′t mature enough to see how much I could have gained at home. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I had allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl′s eyes.
    If given a second chance, the writer would probably choose to ___________

    A.work outside home and make a lot of money
    B.stay at home and take care of her family
    C.work outside home on week and stay at home the other
    D.observe the world in her little daughter' s eyes

    答案:B
    解析:
    细节题。由最后一段可知“我”后悔急于继续自己的事业而不顾家庭,因此希望能够回归家庭、照顾孩子,故选B。

  • 第5题:

    Text 1 A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys,people are actually more stressed at home than at work.Researchers measured people’s cortisol,which is a stress marker,while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.“Further contradicting conventional wisdom,we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home”,writes one of the researchers,Sarah Damske.In fact women even say they feel better at work,she notes.“It is men,not women,who report being happier at home than at work.”Another surprise is that findings hold true for both those with children and without,but more so for nonparents.This is why people who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home,whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.For many men,the end of the workday is a time to kick back.For women who stay home,they never get to leave the office.And for women who work outside the home,they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks.With the blurring of roles,and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women,it’s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But it’s not just a gender thing.At work,people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing:working,making money,doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.The bargain is very pure:Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.On the home front,however,people have no such clarity.Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.There are a lot of tasks to be done,there are inadequate rewards for most of them.Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor;they need to be talked into it,or if they’re teenagers,threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.Plus,they’re your family.You cannot fire your family.You never really get to go home from home.So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home.Not only are the tasks apparently infinite,the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
    According to Damaske,who are likely to be the happiest at home?

    A.Working mothers.
    B.Childless husbands.
    C.Childless wives.
    D.Working fathers.

    答案:B
    解析:
    细节题【命题思路】这是一道细节题。主要考查考生准确理解题干,精准定位,并能正确掌握定位信息,辨别干扰选项的能力。【直击答案】根据题干关键信息“Damaske”定位到第二段第三、四句,即Damaske的观点。这两句提到“It is men,not women,who report being happier at home than at work…,but more so for nonparents.”,即“研究发现是男人,而不是女人,在家比在工作中更高兴。更令人吃惊的是,这种情况对有无孩子都一样,尤其是对于没有孩子的人。”综合对比,确定B为最佳答案。【干扰排除】A、C项两项均为反向干扰,原文说的是男人比女人在家更快乐,故排除。根据该句“but more so for nonparents”可知D项错误,原文是没有孩子的男性,并非工作中的父亲。

  • 第6题:

    Text 1 A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys,people are actually more stressed at home than at work.Researchers measured people’s cortisol,which is a stress marker,while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.“Further contradicting conventional wisdom,we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home”,writes one of the researchers,Sarah Damske.In fact women even say they feel better at work,she notes.“It is men,not women,who report being happier at home than at work.”Another surprise is that findings hold true for both those with children and without,but more so for nonparents.This is why people who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home,whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.For many men,the end of the workday is a time to kick back.For women who stay home,they never get to leave the office.And for women who work outside the home,they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks.With the blurring of roles,and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women,it’s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But it’s not just a gender thing.At work,people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing:working,making money,doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.The bargain is very pure:Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.On the home front,however,people have no such clarity.Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.There are a lot of tasks to be done,there are inadequate rewards for most of them.Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor;they need to be talked into it,or if they’re teenagers,threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.Plus,they’re your family.You cannot fire your family.You never really get to go home from home.So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home.Not only are the tasks apparently infinite,the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
    The blurring of working women's roles refers to the fact that____

    A.they are both bread winners and housewives
    B.their home is also a place for kicking back
    C.there is often much housework left behind
    D.it is difficult for them to leave their office

    答案:A
    解析:
    推理题【命题思路】这是一道推理题。主要考查考生精准理解原文定位信息,查找相互关联,并进行适度推理的能力。【直击答案】根据题干关键信息“blurring of…roles”定位到第三段末句“With the blurring of roles,…”。但从中并不能找到答案,故推测答案在上文,最终锁定在“For many men,the end of the workday is…,with the blurring of role…”。意思是“对男性而言,一天工作结束后他们便可以休息,但对女性来说,离开办公室之后,还有很多家务活”。由此可以推出,“The blurring of working women's roles”指的是女性既要上班又要照顾家庭。综合判断,确定A项为最佳答案。【干扰排除】B项为反向干扰,原文指出女性下班回家后,还有很多家务要做,故排除。C项以偏概全,只强调了“the blurring roles”中“家务活”这个方面,故排除。D项是张冠李戴,选项内容属于“women who stay home”的信息,故排除。

  • 第7题:

    Text 1 A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys,people are actually more stressed at home than at work.Researchers measured people’s cortisol,which is a stress marker,while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.“Further contradicting conventional wisdom,we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home”,writes one of the researchers,Sarah Damske.In fact women even say they feel better at work,she notes.“It is men,not women,who report being happier at home than at work.”Another surprise is that findings hold true for both those with children and without,but more so for nonparents.This is why people who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home,whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.For many men,the end of the workday is a time to kick back.For women who stay home,they never get to leave the office.And for women who work outside the home,they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks.With the blurring of roles,and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women,it’s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But it’s not just a gender thing.At work,people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing:working,making money,doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.The bargain is very pure:Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.On the home front,however,people have no such clarity.Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.There are a lot of tasks to be done,there are inadequate rewards for most of them.Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor;they need to be talked into it,or if they’re teenagers,threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.Plus,they’re your family.You cannot fire your family.You never really get to go home from home.So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home.Not only are the tasks apparently infinite,the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
    The home front differs from the workplace in that_____

    A.home is hardly a cozier working environment
    B.division of labor at home is seldom clearcut
    C.household tasks are generally more motivating
    D.family labor is often adequately rewarded

    答案:B
    解析:
    细节题【命题思路】细节题。本题主要考查考生准确理解题干,精准定位并正确理解定位信息,辨别干扰选项的能力。【直击答案】根据出题的顺序性原则,本题定位到倒数第二段首句。本句“on the home front,however,people have no such clarity”,表明在家里,人们的分工不会像工作场所那么明确,从而导致女性在家里压力大,A项“division of labor at home is seldom clearcut”是对此信息的同义替换,为最佳答案。【干扰排除】A项属于无中生有信息。原文并未提及家务活是否更具motivating,C项无中生有。D项与原文信息“there are inadequate rewards for most of them.”不符合,属于反向干扰,故排除。

  • 第8题:

    Some women in recent years have brought successful court challenges to gender discrimination in job ads,but the______the companies were ordered to pay was low。

    A.regulation
    B.occupation
    C.permission
    D.compensation

    答案:D
    解析:
    本题考查近义词辨析。题目意为“近年来,一些女性成功地在法庭中打赢了招聘广告中性别歧视的官司,但公司被要求支付的赔偿却往往不高。”A选项“管理,规则”,B选项“职业,占有”,C选项“许可,准许”,D选项“补偿,赔偿”。根据句意,公司需要向女性支付赔偿金,选项D正确。
      

  • 第9题:

    共用题干
    Changes of Women's Role

    The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century,______(51)in the last twenty years.The main change has been______(52)giving women greater equality with men.Up to the beginning of this century,women seem to have had______(53)rights.They could not vote and were kept at home.______(54),as far as we know,most women were happy with this situation. Today,women in Britain certainly______(55)more rights than they used to.They were ______(56)the vote in 1919._________(1919.)
    In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal______(57)of wealth in the case of divorce,______(58)the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal pay
    with men for work of equal value in the same year.
    Yet______(59)these changes,there are still great difference in status between men and women.Many employers seem to______(60)the Equal Pay Act,and the average working women is______(61)to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job.______(62) a survey,at present,only one-third of the country's workers are______(63)women.This small percentage is partly______(64)a shortage of nurseries.If there were______(65)nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work.

    _________(59)
    A:because of
    B:instead of
    C:in spite of
    D:as a result of

    答案:C
    解析:
    本句是递进关系,强调本世纪的后20年,所以选B。 certainly意为“必然地”;apparently意为“明显地”;practically意为“实际上”。
    towards表示变化的倾向,意为“朝······方向发展”。
    上文提到本世纪的主要变化是女性享有更多与男性同样的权利。因此可以推断本世纪初与现在相比,妇女的权利要较少。所以选B。
    上一句说“妇女不能投票,被关在家里”,下一句说“据我们所知,大多数妇女很高兴这样”,这显然是转折关系,所以选C。
    由上文推断本句的意思应该是“英国妇女当然比过去享有更多的权利”,所以选B。 lack是“缺少”的意思;occupy是“占据”的意思。
    give意为“给予”;deprive意为“剥夺”;deny意为“否认,拒绝”;approve意为“批准,通过”。由上文妇女获得权利可以推断本句的意思是“1919年,妇女被给予投票权”。因此选A。
    share是“分享,共享”的意思,本句的意思是离婚时,给予妇女同样份额的财产,即夫妻分享财产。所以选D。
    上一句说“1970年,法律规定在离婚时给予妇女同样份额的财产”,下一句说“同年的《同酬法案》给予妇女同工同酬的权利”,两项法律都是给予妇女权利,是并列关系,所以用表示并列关系的连词and。
    because of意为“因为,由于”;instead of意为“而不是······”;in spite of意为“不管,虽然”;as a result of意为“作为······的结果”。本句的意思是“虽然有这些改变,女性与男性的地位仍然存在巨大差别”,表示让步关系,所以应选C。
    由上文可以推断虽然有法律规定,但是女性与男性的地位仍然存在巨大差别,工资的差别就是其中之一,这是由于许多雇主忽视《同酬法案》,所以选C。
    sb.be likely to do sth.表示可能性,意为“某人很可能做某事”,本句的意思是“做同样的工作,女性可能平均只赚男性的一半”。
    according to sth.意为“根据某事”;apart from/in addition to sth.意为“除了某事”;according to a survey是“根据调查结果”的意思。
    by mistake意为“错误地”;by accident意为“偶然”;in turn意为“依次,轮流”;in fact意为“事实上”。比较选项只能选D,本句的意思是:“根据一份调查,事实上,现在全国只有1/3的工人是女性。”
    stem from是“来自,源于”的意思,相当于result from,本句的意思是“这么小的比例部分是由于缺乏幼儿园。”A result in B是“A导致B”的意思。
    上一句提到妇女不参加工作是由于缺乏幼儿园,所以此句应为如果有足够的幼儿园。

  • 第10题:

    Some women ()(本来能够挣一份很好的工资) in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sale of the family.


    正确答案:could have made a good salary.

  • 第11题:

    填空题
    Some women ()(本来能够挣一份很好的工资) in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sale of the family.

    正确答案: could have made a good salary.
    解析: 暂无解析

  • 第12题:

    单选题
    Women’s place, some people think, is within the protective environment of the home because _____.
    A

    women can provide better care for the children

    B

    women are too weak to do any agricultural work at all

    C

    women are biologically suited to domestic jobs

    D

    women cannot compete with men in any field


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    本题可参照文章的第一段。题干中的“some people think”和原文第一段第二句话中的“According to this ideology ...”是对应的。第五句话作者又提到“Thus, they are naturally suited, much more so than men, to the performance of domestic duties”,从中可知C项是正确答案。

  • 第13题:

    根据下面资料,回答
    For many women choosing whether to work or not to work outside their home is a luxury; they must work to survive. Others face a hard decision. Perhaps the choice has to do with economics. One husband said, "Marge and I decided after careful consideration that for her to go back to work at this moment was an extravagance. We couldn′t afford it." With two preschool children, it soon became clear in their figuring that with babysitters, transportation, and increased taxes, rather than having more money, they might actually end up with less.
    Economic factors are usually the first to be considered, but they are not the most important. The most important aspects of the decision have to do with the emotional needs of each member of the family. It is in this area that husbands and wives find themselves having to face many confusing and conflicting feelings.
    There are many women who find that homemaking is boring or who feel imprisoned if they have to stay home with a young child or several children. On the other hand, there are women who think that homemaking gives them the deepest satisfaction.
    From my own experience, I would like to suggest that sometimes the decision to go back to work is made in too much haste. There are few decisions that I now regret more. I wasn′t mature enough to see how much I could have gained at home. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I had allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl′s eyes.
    Why do many women have to work outside their home?

    A.Because their economic situation decides that they have no other alternative.
    B.Because they don' t like looking after the children at home.
    C.Because doing the house work is very dull and unpaid.
    D.Because they think the work outside their home is a luxury for them.

    答案:A
    解析:
    细节题。由第一段“they must work to survive”和“Perhaps the choice has to do with economics”可知,离家工作是出于经济状况考虑而做出的无奈之举,故选A。

  • 第14题:

    根据下面资料,回答
    For many women choosing whether to work or not to work outside their home is a luxury; they must work to survive. Others face a hard decision. Perhaps the choice has to do with economics. One husband said, "Marge and I decided after careful consideration that for her to go back to work at this moment was an extravagance. We couldn′t afford it." With two preschool children, it soon became clear in their figuring that with babysitters, transportation, and increased taxes, rather than having more money, they might actually end up with less.
    Economic factors are usually the first to be considered, but they are not the most important. The most important aspects of the decision have to do with the emotional needs of each member of the family. It is in this area that husbands and wives find themselves having to face many confusing and conflicting feelings.
    There are many women who find that homemaking is boring or who feel imprisoned if they have to stay home with a young child or several children. On the other hand, there are women who think that homemaking gives them the deepest satisfaction.
    From my own experience, I would like to suggest that sometimes the decision to go back to work is made in too much haste. There are few decisions that I now regret more. I wasn′t mature enough to see how much I could have gained at home. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I had allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl′s eyes.
    Some women would rather do housework and take care of their children than pursue a career because they feel ___________.

    A.highly stressed while working with others
    B.greatly competitive at work
    C.surprisingly upset while working with men
    D.deeply satisfied with their work at home

    答案:D
    解析:
    细节题。由第三段“homemaking gives them the deepest satisfaction”可知选D。

  • 第15题:

    Some women ___________ a good salary in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sake of the family.

    A.must make
    B.should have made
    C.would make
    D.could have made

    答案:D
    解析:
    考查情态动词的用法。Should have done表示过去本应该做某事而实际上没有做;could have done表示过去本来有能力可以做某事而实际上没有做,通常译为“本来可以”“本来能够”等。句意为“有些妇女本来可以出去工作挣得高薪,不必待在家里,但是她们为了家庭而决定放弃工作”,could have done比较符合题意。

  • 第16题:

    The director decided to delegate some of the work to a subcontractor after his employees___________ help with the project.

    A.inquired
    B.requested
    C.asked
    D.insisted

    答案:B
    解析:
    选项中可以直接接宾语的及物动词为正确答案。

  • 第17题:

    Text 4 Each suburban housewife,wrote Betty Friedan in 1963,struggles with a single quesLion as she makes the beds,shops for groceries,drives children to school and lies beside her husband at night:"Is this all?"A few years after her ground-breaking book The Feminine Mystique was published,the Cen8us Bureau began collecting data on the proportion of mothers who opt to stay at home.Over the subsequent decades the statistics answered Friedan's question with a heartfelt no.In 1967 the share of mothers who did not work ouLside the home stood at 4996;by the turn of the millennium it had dropped to just 23%.Many Lhought this number would continue to fall as women sought to"have it all".Instead,the proportion of stay-at-home moLhers has been rising steadily for the past 15 years,according to new data gathered by the Pew Research Centre.This partly reflects demographic change.Immigrants,a rising share of Lhe relevant generation,are more likely to be stay-at-home mums than women born in America.There is an economic component to the change,too:at the end of the 1990s,when mothers staying at home were at Lheir rarest,the economy was creating so many jobs that most people who wanted work could find it.Now more report that they are unable to do so,or are studying in the hope of finding work later.But there is also an element of choice:a quarter of stay-at-home mothers have coUege degrees.Taken as a whole,the group includes mothers at both ends of the social scale.Some are highly educated bankers'wives who choose not to work because they don't need the money and would rather spend their time hot-housing their toddlers so that they may one day get into Harvard.Others are poorer but calculate that,after paying for child care,the money they make sweeping filoors or serving burgers does not justify the time away from their little ones.he first group is fturly small.Pew estimates that there are 370,000 highly educated and afflu-ent slay-at-home mothers(defined as married mothers with children under 18 who have at least a master's degree and family income in excess of$75,000).That is 5%of all stay-at-home mothers with working husbands.One third of stay-at-home moLhers are single or cohabiting,and on average they are poorer than the rest.
    It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that the most vital thing for women is to______

    A.spend more money on their children
    B.spend more time with their children
    C.balance their work inside and outside
    D.earn more money to support their family

    答案:B
    解析:
    推理题。定位到第四段。该段的spend their time hot-housing their toddlers so that Lhey may one day get into Harvard“花时间培养孩子,让他们有朝一日能够进入哈佛之类的名校”和the money they make sweeping floors or serving burgers does not justify Lhe time away from their little ones“她们通过打扫地板或者在汉堡店打工所赚的钱不足以弥补未能陪伴在孩子身边的时间”可以表明:对于女性来讲,花时间陪孩子最重要。故本题答案为[B]。

  • 第18题:

    Text 4 Each suburban housewife,wrote Betty Friedan in 1963,struggles with a single quesLion as she makes the beds,shops for groceries,drives children to school and lies beside her husband at night:"Is this all?"A few years after her ground-breaking book The Feminine Mystique was published,the Cen8us Bureau began collecting data on the proportion of mothers who opt to stay at home.Over the subsequent decades the statistics answered Friedan's question with a heartfelt no.In 1967 the share of mothers who did not work ouLside the home stood at 4996;by the turn of the millennium it had dropped to just 23%.Many Lhought this number would continue to fall as women sought to"have it all".Instead,the proportion of stay-at-home moLhers has been rising steadily for the past 15 years,according to new data gathered by the Pew Research Centre.This partly reflects demographic change.Immigrants,a rising share of Lhe relevant generation,are more likely to be stay-at-home mums than women born in America.There is an economic component to the change,too:at the end of the 1990s,when mothers staying at home were at Lheir rarest,the economy was creating so many jobs that most people who wanted work could find it.Now more report that they are unable to do so,or are studying in the hope of finding work later.But there is also an element of choice:a quarter of stay-at-home mothers have coUege degrees.Taken as a whole,the group includes mothers at both ends of the social scale.Some are highly educated bankers'wives who choose not to work because they don't need the money and would rather spend their time hot-housing their toddlers so that they may one day get into Harvard.Others are poorer but calculate that,after paying for child care,the money they make sweeping filoors or serving burgers does not justify the time away from their little ones.he first group is fturly small.Pew estimates that there are 370,000 highly educated and afflu-ent slay-at-home mothers(defined as married mothers with children under 18 who have at least a master's degree and family income in excess of$75,000).That is 5%of all stay-at-home mothers with working husbands.One third of stay-at-home moLhers are single or cohabiting,and on average they are poorer than the rest.
    According to Paragraph 2,which of the following is true?

    A.The lowest proportion of housewives appeared around 2000.
    B.Many people think that women are becoming less independent.
    C.The number of housewives has been falling in the past dec8des.
    D.Most women think that career may be more important for them.

    答案:A
    解析:
    细节题。选项[A]对应第二段第一行:by the turn of the millennium it had dropped to just 23%“到新千年(即2000年)的时候降低到23%”,后文明确指出随后15年家庭主妇比重稳定增长,故确定2000年左右为最低点,即该项表述正确。选项[B]women are becominf;less independent“妇女变得更加不独立”是无中生有;选项[C]has been falling in the pasL decades错误,文章明确指出has been rising steadily for the past 15 years;选项[D]属于无中生有。综上,本题答案为[A]。

  • 第19题:

    Text 1 A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys,people are actually more stressed at home than at work.Researchers measured people’s cortisol,which is a stress marker,while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.“Further contradicting conventional wisdom,we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home”,writes one of the researchers,Sarah Damske.In fact women even say they feel better at work,she notes.“It is men,not women,who report being happier at home than at work.”Another surprise is that findings hold true for both those with children and without,but more so for nonparents.This is why people who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home,whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.For many men,the end of the workday is a time to kick back.For women who stay home,they never get to leave the office.And for women who work outside the home,they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks.With the blurring of roles,and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women,it’s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But it’s not just a gender thing.At work,people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing:working,making money,doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.The bargain is very pure:Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.On the home front,however,people have no such clarity.Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.There are a lot of tasks to be done,there are inadequate rewards for most of them.Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor;they need to be talked into it,or if they’re teenagers,threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.Plus,they’re your family.You cannot fire your family.You never really get to go home from home.So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home.Not only are the tasks apparently infinite,the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
    The word“moola”(Line 4,Para.4)most probably means_____

    A.energy
    B.skills
    C.earnings
    D.nutrition

    答案:C
    解析:
    词义题【命题思路】这是一道词义猜测题。主要考查考生借助上下文语境,猜测生词词义的能力。【直击答案】根据题干关键信息“moola”(Line 4,Para.4)”定位到第四段“Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out lifesustaining moola”。本句讲劳动与所得的关系,也就是雇员付出一定的体力、脑力劳动,从而得到维持生活的。根据常识,可知此空应填入“收入,工资”;此外,在本段中复现了“making money,income”,由此可进一步确定C项为正确答案。【干扰排除】A项指“能量”,B项指“技能”;D项nutrition指“营养”,都不符合语义,故排除。

  • 第20题:

    共用题干
    New Changes in American Life
    Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families,while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children.______(46)But by the middle of this centu- ry,men's and women's roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
    In the 1950s,economic and social success was the goal of the typical American.But in the l960s a new force developed called the counterculture.______(47)The counterculture presen- ted men and women with new role choices.Taking more interest in childcare,men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives.In fact,some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both se- xes.______(48)Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Viet-nam。
    In terms of numbers,the counterculture was not a very large group of people.______(49) Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns.Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on“overtime”work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families.Some doctors,lawyers,and teachers turned away from high paying situa-tions to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.
    In the 1970s,the feminist movement,or women's liberation,produced additional economic and social changes.Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers.______(50)But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work,banking,dentistry,and construction work.Women were asking for equal work,and equal opportunities for promotion.
    Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women.Naturally,there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.

    ______(46)
    A: In addition,many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.
    B: Most of them still took traditional women's jobs as public school teaching,nursing,and secretarial work.
    C: These roles were firmly fixed for most people,and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles.
    D: But its influence spread to many parts of American society.
    E: The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals.
    F: A great many jobs that used to belong to men are now taken by women.

    答案:C
    解析:
    空格46后面的句子中出现了一个比较级“less firmly”,这说明空格中也应有这样一个副词。从句意上看,空格后面的句子以转折词but引导,说明该句与空格中的句子成转折关系。综合考虑,本题选C。
    空格47所在段落主要是在谈论20世纪50年代的“反文化”运动给传统意义下的美国男女作用时比带来的影响。选项中只有E项出现了“the movement”这个词组,所以大致圈定选项E。从上下文来看,选项E实际上是该段中所谈到的变化的总括,故选E。
    空格48后面的句子是在讲许多年轻人不愿服兵役参加越战,该句与段落中其他句子没有直接联系,这说明空格中的句子应该是承上启下的连接句。选项A中出现“in addition”连接上文,“male role of soldier”照应下文,这表明A项是合适的选项。
    空格所在的段落继续谈论“反文化”运动对美国社会的影响,但从上下文来看,该段已不仅仅在说对男女角色关系的影响,所以与上段之间缺少一个连接句来照应。选项 D的意思是“它影响到美国社会的很多方面”,符合题意,故选D。
    本段主要是说美国女权运动所带来的影响,妇女们大量加入劳动力大军。空格50 后面的句子以but引导,这说明两句话之间是对比关系。后者是说明妇女从事了一些以前本属于男人的工作,那么空格所在的句子也就应该是说妇女从事一些传统的工作,这就是选项B的意思,故选B。

  • 第21题:

    共用题干
    New Changes in American Life
    Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men
    worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families,while women cooked the
    meals and took care of the home and the children._______(46)But by the middle of this century,men's and women's roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
    In the 1950s,economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the
    1960 s a new force developed called the counterculture._______(47)The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare,men began to share
    child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact,some young men and women moved to communal
    homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes._______(48)Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Viet-nam。
    In terms of numbers,the counterculture was not a very large group of people._______(49)
    Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns.Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on“overtime”work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families .Some doctors,lawyers,and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.
    In the 1970s,the feminist movement,or women's liberation,produced additional economic and social changes.Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers._______(50)But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work,banking,dentistry,and construction work.Women were asking for equal work,and equal opportunities for promotion.
    Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women .Naturally,there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.

    _______(49)
    A: In addition,many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.
    B:Most of them still took traditional women's jobs as public school teaching,nursing,and secretarial work.
    C: These roles were firmly fixed for most people,and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles.
    D: But its influence spread to many parts of American society.
    E: The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals.
    F: A great many jobs that used to belong to men are now taken by women.

    答案:D
    解析:
    空格46后面的句子中出现了一个比较级“less firmly”,这说明空格中也应有这样一个副词。从句意上看,空格后面的句子以转折词but引导,说明该句与空格中的句子成转折关系。综合考虑,本题选C。


    空格47所在段落主要是在谈论20世纪50年代的“反文化”运动给传统意义下的美国男女作用对比带来的影响。选项中只有E项出现了“the movement”这个词组,所以大致圈定选项E。从上下文来看,选项E实际上是该段中所谈到的变化的总括,故选E。


    空格48后面的句子是在讲许多年轻人不愿服兵役参加越战,该句与段落中其他句子没有直接联系,这说明空格中的句子应该是承上启下的连接句。选项A中出现in addition连接上文,male role of soldier照应下文,这表明A项是合适的选项。


    空格所在的段落继续谈论“反文化”运动对美国社会的影响,但从上下文来看,该段已不仅仅在说对男女角色关系的影响,所以与上段之间缺少一个连接句来照应。选项 D的意思是“它影响到美国社会的很多方面”,符合题意,故选D。


    本段主要是说美国女权运动所带来的影响,妇女们大量加入劳动力大军。空格50 后面的句子以but引导,这说明两句话之间是对比关系。后者是说明妇女从事了一些以前本属于男人的工作,那么空格所在的句子也就应该是说妇女从事一些传统的工作,这就是选项B的意思,故选B。

  • 第22题:

    单选题
    Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
    A

    Because he made little money out of a lawyer.

    B

    Because he wanted to make toys for the children.

    C

    Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.

    D

    Because he was going to work in the museum instead.


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    细节理解题。最后一句提到“To do what you love in life is the most important thing.”,Nathan喜欢积木,想成为一名积木艺术家。

  • 第23题:

    单选题
    In paragraph 2, “It hasn’t worked out that way.” means that women at present _____.
    A

    are facing worsening conditions

    B

    are still dependent on men financially

    C

    prefer staying at home as housewives

    D

    find it hard to get fair treatment


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    第二段第二、三句说女性劳动力廉价,工作时间更长,但是家庭负担却几乎没有减轻。绝大多数工作女性面临的现实是必须更加拼命地工作,而这几乎就是不可能完成的事。

  • 第24题:

    单选题
    What changes did the emergence of factories have on the family?
    A

    It separated men from women in the family.

    B

    Women had to work alongside their husbands in factories.

    C

    Women had to leave home to work in factories.

    D

    Men had lost their dominating role in the family.


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    录音中指出通过建造工厂,工业革命引起了家庭和工作场合之间的不合,显著影响了男女之间的关系,那些习惯了在丈夫附近工作的妻子们发现就业的主要来源在远离家庭的地方即工厂,因此选C。