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Passage Four
Women earn less than men do. For example, in 1998 the hourly wages of women in the U. S. were 26% less than those of men.
The gap between male and female incomes varies with age. The gap between the labor incomes of young women and young men
varies. It's also clear that jobs in which women are concentrated pay less. The larger the number of workers who are women in ran
industry, the lower the average wages.
Why do women earn less than men do? Can the differences be explained by the fact that women are looked
down upon? If so, the government has to intervene(干预), to force the employers to pay equal wages to equal jobs. However, there is no agreement among economists about the causes of
the gap. One view argues that women, on the average, have chosen low-paying jobs in which workers enjoy the freedom of entering and leaving the labor force, which reduces their years of experience relative
to men. Other people say the gap can also be explained by the difference in educational background.
Much of the gap, however, has not been fully explained. It might be the result of some prejudice (偏见) against women. It is this part that has produced calls for government action. What would happen if the government did intervene to
increase the wages paid to women? One possibility is that incomes for women as a group might actually decline (下降). An increase in wage decreases the quantity of labor imput demanded, resulting in decreased employment as the rate of hiring new
workers declines. The result will be a surplus 过剩) of labor. Those who can find jobs might be better off while those who had jobs
might find themselves out of work.
48. Some economists believe women earn less than men partly because______.
A. there are more than enough women in the labor force
B. women have more freedom in selecting jobs
C. women are only provided with low-paid jobs
D. women are less experienced than men
此题为细节分析推论题。文章的第二段内可以找到句子:One view…which reduces their year of experience background。有一种观点认为是女性就业时,更倾向于选择自由性更强但报酬更低的行业,这也导致她们的工作经验不如男性。
第2题:
Passage Four
Equal 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's
B. men should be paid less than women
C. people doing harder work should earn more
D. men and women should be paid the same amount of money for the same work
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A.sexual
B.sexy
C.sexist
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Which of the following statements is true according to the article?
A. Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.
B.Women stand out at remembering people's names.
C. Men excel at typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the giventime.
D. Women excel at dealing mathematic problems.
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What does the author want to tell us most?
A. Women' s brains are better organized for language and communication
B. Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men.
C. Men do not like talking because they rely more on facts.
D. Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.
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According to the second paragraph, life expectancy______.( )
[A] shows that an older man is expected to live to 84.8
[B] for men is longer than for women today
[C] for women was shorter than for men in 1900
[D] for people has been getting longer since 1900
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are better at telling less serious lies than men
generally lie far more than men do
lie at parties more often than men do
often make promises they intend to break
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Which of the following CANNOT be inferred from the second paragraph?
A. Levels of education are closely related to productivity.
B. Women are not as productive as men.
C. Women receive less education than men.
D. Goods produced by men are not as good as those by women.
此题为推论题。从第二段的内容进行推断,最没有可能的就是D:男人生产的产品不如女人做得好。
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People who disagree with women's opinions believe______.
A. women can't do what men can
B. men can earn money more easily than women
C. men's responsibilities are different from women's
D. men have to work much harder than women
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The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, () in the last twenty years. The main change has been () giving women greater equality with men. Up to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had () rights. They could not vote and were kept at home. () , as far as we know, most women were happy with this situ ation. Today, women in Britain certainly () more rights than they used to. They were () the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal () of wealth in the case of divorce, () the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year. Yet () these changes, there are still great difference in status between men and women. Many employers seem to () the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is () to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job. () a survey, at present, only one-third of the country’s workers are () women. This small percentage is partly () a shortage of nurseries. If there were () nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work
A.but
B.and
C.because
D.although
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Dr. Singer thinks men are more suitable to maintain justice and issue punishment than women because _______ .
A. men's brain's empathy centers remained dull when punishment was executed
B. women's pleasure centers were lit up with punishment implemented
C. men have no response when seeing punishment executed
D. men had different experiences from women
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All of the following are true EXCEPT __.( )
[A] men tend to talk more in public than women
[B] nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
[C] women attach much importance to communication between couples
[D] a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse
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men play ball games more often than women
men love ball games more than women do
men’s hand and eye movements are quicker in response
men have a smaller number of nerves in their brains than women