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3.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

4.Passage FourWomen 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 menvaries. It's also clear that jobs in which women are concentrated pay less. The larger the number of workers who are women in ranindustry, the lower the average wages.Why do women earn less than men do? Can the differences be explained by the fact that women are lookeddown 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 ofthe 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 relativeto 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 toincrease 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 newworkers declines. The result will be a surplus 过剩) of labor. Those who can find jobs might be better off while those who had jobsmight 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 forceB. women have more freedom in selecting jobsC. women are only provided with low-paid jobsD. women are less experienced than men

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  • 第1题:

    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


    正确答案:C
    50.答案为C  此题为细节题。从第二段中句子They say that men have more responsibility than women可以得出答案是C

  • 第2题:

    One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that_________.

    A. the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline

    B. people surveyed are all old

    C. people taking part in this test came from all over the world

    D. women live longer than men


    正确答案:A
    A[解析]由第四段的“Those results could be improper because the studies in-volved older people,and women Iive longer than men.”可以推出A项正确。

  • 第3题:

    Historians of women’s labor focused on factory work as a mote promising area of research than service-sector work because factory work______.

    A.involved the payment of higher wages

    B.required skill in:detailed tasks

    C.was assumed to be less characterized by sex segregation

    D.was more readily accepted by women than by men


    正确答案:C
    根据文章第一段第二句,研究妇女劳动的历史学家关注工厂劳动,认为是更有用的领域,而不关注服务行业,是因为factory work“seemed so different from traditional,unpaid‘women’S work’in the home,and because the underlying economic forces of industrialism were presumed to be gender—blind and hence emancipatory in effect”。而A、B和D项文章并未提及。

  • 第4题:

    If the current and wind are in the same direction,the sea surface represents a wind speed ______.

    A.lower than actually exists

    B.higher than actually exists

    C.that actually exists

    D.that has no proportional relationship


    正确答案:A

  • 第5题:

    Beauty has always been regarded as something praise worthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants (被告). But in the executive circle, beauty can become a liability.
    While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
    Handsome male executives were thought as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to account for their success.
    Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.
    All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of attractive overnight successes.
    Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is thought to be more feminine and an attractive man more masculine (有男子气概的) than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the "masculine" qualities required.
    This is true even in politics. ′When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,′ says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
    The results showed that attractive males utterly defeated unattractive men, but the women who had been ranked most attractive invariably received the fewest votes.
    Bowman′ s experiment reveals that when it comes to politics, attractiveness ____________.

    A.turns out to be an obstacle to men
    B.is more of an obstacle than an advantage to women
    C.affects men and women alike
    D.has as little effect on men as on women

    答案:B
    解析:
    推断题。由文章最后一段可知,有魅力的男性彻底击败了缺乏魅力的男性。而那些被认为最有魅力的女性常常得到最少的选票。由此可推出,在政界,对于女性来说,魅力是一个障碍,而不是优势。故选B。

  • 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 2 Far from joining the labour force,women have been falling away at an alarming pace.The female employment rate in India,counting both the formal and informal economy,has tumbled from an already-low 35%in 2005 to just 26%now.Yet nearly 1Om fewer women are in jobs.A rise in female employment rates to the male level would provide India with an extra 235m workers,more than the EU has of either gender,and more than enough to fill all the factories in the rest ofAsia.Imagine the repercussions.Were India to rebalance its workforce in this way,the IMF estimates,the world's biggest democracy would be 27%richer.Its people would be well on their way to middle-income status.Beyond the obvious economic benelits are the incalculable human ones.Women who work are likelier to invest more in their children's upbringing,and to have more say over how they lead their lives.Social mores are startlingly conservative.A girl's first task is to persuade her own family that she should have a job.The in-laws she will typically move in with after marriage are even more likely to yank her out of the workforce and into social isolation.In a survey in 2012,84%of Indians agreed that men have more right to work than women when jobs are scarce.Men have taken 90%of the 36m additional jobs in industry India has created since 2005.And those who say that women themselves prefer not to work must contend with plenty of counter-evidence.Census data suggest that a third of stay-at-home women would WOfk ifjobs were available;govemment make-work schemes attract more women than men.What can be done?Many of the standard answers fall short.Promoting education,a time-tested development strategy,may not succeed.Figures show that the more schooling an Indian woman receives,the less likely she is to work,at least if she has anything less than a university degree.Likewise urbanization,another familiar way to alleviate poverty:city-dwelling women are half as likely as rural ones to have a job.An optimist might argue that more women are not working because India is still paying for the sins of the past,when so many of them were illiterate and high fertility rates bound them to the home.Most measures of female welfare are improving.India has many more girls in classrooms and fewer child brides than it once did.In fact,many fear that all that extra schooling was a parental ploy to improve a daughter's prospects not in the labour market but in the arranged-marriage market,part of the all-important quest to snag a suitable boy.A further push is needed to get Indian women what they really need:a suitable job.Better education may not function because_____

    A.higher educated women are reluctant to work
    B.higher education is not equal to higher possibility of work
    C.women living in rural are less likely to join work
    D.higher education failed to stand the test oftime

    答案:B
    解析:
    事实细节题。根据定位词定位到文章第四段。原文指出,促进教育——一个经过时间考验的发展战略,可能不会成功。数据显示,印度女性接受的教育程度越高,就越不可能去工作,至少如果她的学历低于大学学历的话,B项为其同义替换表达,故B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】原文并未提及愿不愿意工作,故A项排除;原文指出,居住在城市的女性找到工作的可能性只有农村女性的一半.C项错误;D项属于无中生有。

  • 第8题:

    共用题干
    1.All research to date on body image shows that women are much more critical of their appearance than men and much less likely to admire what they see in the mirror. Up to 8 out of 10 women are dissatisfied with their reflection,and more than half may see a distorted image.
    2.Men looking in the mirror are more likely to be either pleased with what they see or indifferent. Research shows that men generally have a much more positive body-image than women一if anything,they may tend to over-estimate their attractiveness.Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    3.Why are women too much more self-critical than men?Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the"ideal"face.And constant exposure to idealized images of female beauty on TV,magazines and billboards makes exceptional good looks seem normal and anything short of perfection seem abnormal and ugly.It has been estimated that young women now see more images of outstandingly beautiful women in one day than our mothers saw throughout their entire adolescence.
    4.Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.In 1917,the physically perfect woman was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed nearly 10 stone(约140磅).Even 25 years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only 8% less than the average woman,now they weigh 23% less.The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population一and that's just in terms of weight and size.If you want the ideal shape,face,etc, it's probably more like 1%.

    Today the percentage of women who have the ideal shape,face,etc is probably like________.
    A:literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    B:1%
    C:smile at themselves
    D:standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible
    E:progressively more unrealistic
    F:5%

    答案:B
    解析:
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是女性对自己的外貌持挑剔态度。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是和女性相比,男性对自己的外貌更为肯定和自信。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是男女之所以对自己的外貌会有如此不同看法的原因。该段第一句即为主题句。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是想成为一位不论是身材还是脸蛋都很“完美”的女性的概率非常之小。该段第一句是本段的主题句。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第二段最后一句:Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.有些男性照镜子时甚至看不到自己外貌中的瑕疵。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第三段第二句:Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.因为和男性相比,人们更多的是用外表来对女性进行判断,女性美的标准也更高,更为恒定不变。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第四段第一句:Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.再者,大多数女性努力想要实现不可能的事情:女性美的标准实际上在上个世纪已将变得越来越不切实际。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是最后一段最后一句:If you want the ideal shape , face , etc , it's probably more like 1%.

  • 第9题:

    共用题干
    1.All research to date on body image shows that women are much more critical of their appearance than men and much less likely to admire what they see in the mirror. Up to 8 out of 10 women are dissatisfied with their reflection,and more than half may see a distorted image.
    2.Men looking in the mirror are more likely to be either pleased with what they see or indifferent. Research shows that men generally have a much more positive body-image than women一if anything,they may tend to over-estimate their attractiveness.Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    3.Why are women too much more self-critical than men?Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the"ideal"face.And constant exposure to idealized images of female beauty on TV,magazines and billboards makes exceptional good looks seem normal and anything short of perfection seem abnormal and ugly.It has been estimated that young women now see more images of outstandingly beautiful women in one day than our mothers saw throughout their entire adolescence.
    4.Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.In 1917,the physically perfect woman was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed nearly 10 stone(约140磅).Even 25 years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only 8% less than the average woman,now they weigh 23% less.The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population一and that's just in terms of weight and size.If you want the ideal shape,face,etc, it's probably more like 1%.

    During the last century,standards of female beauty have in fact become_______.
    A:literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    B:1%
    C:smile at themselves
    D:standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible
    E:progressively more unrealistic
    F:5%

    答案:E
    解析:
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是女性对自己的外貌持挑剔态度。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是和女性相比,男性对自己的外貌更为肯定和自信。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是男女之所以对自己的外貌会有如此不同看法的原因。该段第一句即为主题句。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是想成为一位不论是身材还是脸蛋都很“完美”的女性的概率非常之小。该段第一句是本段的主题句。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第二段最后一句:Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.有些男性照镜子时甚至看不到自己外貌中的瑕疵。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第三段第二句:Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.因为和男性相比,人们更多的是用外表来对女性进行判断,女性美的标准也更高,更为恒定不变。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第四段第一句:Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.再者,大多数女性努力想要实现不可能的事情:女性美的标准实际上在上个世纪已将变得越来越不切实际。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是最后一段最后一句:If you want the ideal shape , face , etc , it's probably more like 1%.

  • 第10题:

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills ) , while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline ( 衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline.Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g."object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing.The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average.And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
    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 given time.
    D.Women excel at dealing mathematic problems.

    答案:B
    解析:
    根据第二段Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images,while women tend to excel(擅长)at recalling information from their brain’s files.可推出答案为B。

  • 第11题:

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills ) , while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline ( 衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline.Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g."object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing.The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average.And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
    The author aims to tell us that__________ .

    A.women's minds perform better than men's
    B.men's minds decline more with age
    C.everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older
    D.a survey on human's mind decline was done recently

    答案:B
    解析:
    根据文章开头…but men’s minds decline more than women’s…可知本题答案为B。

  • 第12题:

    填空题
    Women were supposed to score higher than men in the test, but actually they didn’t.____

    正确答案: D
    解析:
    根据题干信息可以定位到D段“Strangely, women, who are generally considered more emotionally attuned, didn’t score any higher than men.”,奇怪的是,通常被认为是情感较协调的女性在实验中的分数却并不比男性高。故匹配段落为D。

  • 第13题:

    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


    参考答案:B

  • 第14题:

    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


    正确答案:A
    A 推理判断题。Dr. Singer之所以认为男人更适合维持公正、执行惩罚是和其天生的本性有关的,从文章前面可以看出,男人看到惩罚坏人时会有愉悦感,而女人则有一点怜悯感,这就是男人比女人更适合做这些工作的原因。选项A“执行惩罚时神入中心呈迟钝状”,说明这是没有同情的感情在;B“执行惩罚时女人的愉悦中心会发亮”,和文章事实相反;C“男人看到执行惩罚时没有反应”,而文中提到其愉悦中心发亮,有愉悦感;D“男人和女人有不同的经历”。故选A。

  • 第15题:

    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


    正确答案:D

  • 第16题:

    Police units were( )with newly recruited men and women.

    A.extended
    B.exaggerated
    C.magnified
    D.augmented

    答案:D
    解析:
    augment“扩大,增长,加强”,用于表明某一东西已有一定基础,而在此基础上得到进一步发展,变得更大、更好、更有价值等。句意:警察部队新招了些男女警察,扩大了队伍。A.extend“延长”,如:extend a railway;B.exaggerate“夸大,夸张”,如:exaggerate the difficulties of the situation把困难情况讲得过分;C.magnify特指放大之意,如:I want to magnify the picture.我要放

  • 第17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 Paragraph 1,most previous surveys found that home_____

    A.was an unrealistic place for relaxation
    B.generated more stress than the workplace
    C.was an ideal place for stress measurement
    D.offered greater relaxation than the workplace

    答案:D
    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,并能正确划分和掌握定位信息的能力。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“Paragraph 1,most previous surveys”定位到首段首句。由A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys可知most previous surveys和a new study的研究结论相反,即正确答案和people are actually more stressed at home than at work表述的意思相反。对比四个选项可知D项为正确答案。【干扰排除】A项属过度推理,原文虽提到在家比在工作中有更多的压力,但并不能推测出“不是休闲放松的理想场所”。B项属于偷换概念,虽首段第一句出现了“more stress”以及“the workplace”,但文章中是指“人们感到在家比在工作中压力更大”,而不是B项所指的“家能产生更多的压力”。C项指“家是测量压力的理想场所”,属于无中生有。

  • 第18题:

    A recent US study found that people who score high for extroversion rate themselves as leaner and taller than they acmally are,with male extroverts weighing more than introverts.Conscientiousness is associated with a healthier weight,xvith the most conscientious(in the top 25%)weighing on average almost Skg less than the least conscientious(in the bottom 25%).Participants scoring low on emotional stability tended to overestimate their weight,although women who gave themselves a low score did actually weigh more than others with higher scores on this trait.These findings held across all of the ethnic groups included in the study.While some links are unsurprising(eg.conscientious people stick to their diets),some are not so easy to explain.Why,for example,do extrovcrted men weigh more?Is it because they're always in the pub?If so,perhaps the"beer goggle"effect explains why they rate themselves as taller and thinner than they actually are.


    答案:
    解析:
    最近一项美国研究发现,外向打分高的人认为自己比实际上更高更瘦,其中男性外向者的体重比内向者更重。责任心和更健康的体重相关,其中最有责任心的人(排名前25%)平均体重比最缺乏责任心的人(排名在后25%)轻将近5公斤。在情绪稳定方面得分低的参与者常常高估他们的体重,虽然给自己打分低的女性在这一特性上比给自己打分高的人实际上更重。这些发现囊括了该研究包含的所有族群。虽然一些联系并不令人惊讶(例如有责任心的人饮食规律),然而有些就难以解释。例如,为什么外向型的男士更重?是因为他们老是泡酒吧?如果是这样,也许“酒里出西施”效应解释了为何他们认为自己比实际上更高更瘦。

  • 第19题:

    共用题干
    1.All research to date on body image shows that women are much more critical of their appearance than men and much less likely to admire what they see in the mirror. Up to 8 out of 10 women are dissatisfied with their reflection,and more than half may see a distorted image.
    2.Men looking in the mirror are more likely to be either pleased with what they see or indifferent. Research shows that men generally have a much more positive body-image than women一if anything,they may tend to over-estimate their attractiveness.Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    3.Why are women too much more self-critical than men?Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the"ideal"face.And constant exposure to idealized images of female beauty on TV,magazines and billboards makes exceptional good looks seem normal and anything short of perfection seem abnormal and ugly.It has been estimated that young women now see more images of outstandingly beautiful women in one day than our mothers saw throughout their entire adolescence.
    4.Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.In 1917,the physically perfect woman was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed nearly 10 stone(约140磅).Even 25 years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only 8% less than the average woman,now they weigh 23% less.The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population一and that's just in terms of weight and size.If you want the ideal shape,face,etc, it's probably more like 1%.

    Paragraph 4_________
    A:How do men view their appearance?
    B:How can women make themselves more beautiful?
    C:Why do men and women view their appearance differently?
    D:Is it possible for women to meet the standards of perfect beauty?
    E:How do people judge women and men?
    F: How do women view their appearance?

    答案:D
    解析:
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是女性对自己的外貌持挑剔态度。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是和女性相比,男性对自己的外貌更为肯定和自信。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是男女之所以对自己的外貌会有如此不同看法的原因。该段第一句即为主题句。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是想成为一位不论是身材还是脸蛋都很“完美”的女性的概率非常之小。该段第一句是本段的主题句。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第二段最后一句:Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.有些男性照镜子时甚至看不到自己外貌中的瑕疵。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第三段第二句:Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.因为和男性相比,人们更多的是用外表来对女性进行判断,女性美的标准也更高,更为恒定不变。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第四段第一句:Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.再者,大多数女性努力想要实现不可能的事情:女性美的标准实际上在上个世纪已将变得越来越不切实际。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是最后一段最后一句:If you want the ideal shape , face , etc , it's probably more like 1%.

  • 第20题:

    共用题干
    1.All research to date on body image shows that women are much more critical of their appearance than men and much less likely to admire what they see in the mirror. Up to 8 out of 10 women are dissatisfied with their reflection,and more than half may see a distorted image.
    2.Men looking in the mirror are more likely to be either pleased with what they see or indifferent. Research shows that men generally have a much more positive body-image than women一if anything,they may tend to over-estimate their attractiveness.Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    3.Why are women too much more self-critical than men?Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the"ideal"face.And constant exposure to idealized images of female beauty on TV,magazines and billboards makes exceptional good looks seem normal and anything short of perfection seem abnormal and ugly.It has been estimated that young women now see more images of outstandingly beautiful women in one day than our mothers saw throughout their entire adolescence.
    4.Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.In 1917,the physically perfect woman was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed nearly 10 stone(约140磅).Even 25 years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only 8% less than the average woman,now they weigh 23% less.The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population一and that's just in terms of weight and size.If you want the ideal shape,face,etc, it's probably more like 1%.

    Women are more self-critical than men because women are judged on their appearance mor than men,and_____.
    A:literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    B:1%
    C:smile at themselves
    D:standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible
    E:progressively more unrealistic
    F:5%

    答案:D
    解析:
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是女性对自己的外貌持挑剔态度。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是和女性相比,男性对自己的外貌更为肯定和自信。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是男女之所以对自己的外貌会有如此不同看法的原因。该段第一句即为主题句。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是想成为一位不论是身材还是脸蛋都很“完美”的女性的概率非常之小。该段第一句是本段的主题句。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第二段最后一句:Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.有些男性照镜子时甚至看不到自己外貌中的瑕疵。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第三段第二句:Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.因为和男性相比,人们更多的是用外表来对女性进行判断,女性美的标准也更高,更为恒定不变。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第四段第一句:Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.再者,大多数女性努力想要实现不可能的事情:女性美的标准实际上在上个世纪已将变得越来越不切实际。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是最后一段最后一句:If you want the ideal shape , face , etc , it's probably more like 1%.

  • 第21题:

    共用题干
    1.All research to date on body image shows that women are much more critical of their appearance than men and much less likely to admire what they see in the mirror. Up to 8 out of 10 women are dissatisfied with their reflection,and more than half may see a distorted image.
    2.Men looking in the mirror are more likely to be either pleased with what they see or indifferent. Research shows that men generally have a much more positive body-image than women一if anything,they may tend to over-estimate their attractiveness.Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    3.Why are women too much more self-critical than men?Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the inflexible.Women are continually bombarded with images of the"ideal"face.And constant exposure to idealized images of female beauty on TV,magazines and billboards makes exceptional good looks seem normal and anything short of perfection seem abnormal and ugly.It has been estimated that young women now see more images of outstandingly beautiful women in one day than our mothers saw throughout their entire adolescence.
    4.Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.In 1917,the physically perfect woman was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed nearly 10 stone(约140磅).Even 25 years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only 8% less than the average woman,now they weigh 23% less.The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population一and that's just in terms of weight and size.If you want the ideal shape,face,etc, it's probably more like 1%.

    Men generally have such a positive body-image that some men looking in the mirn may_______.
    A:literally not see the flaws in their appearance.
    B:1%
    C:smile at themselves
    D:standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible
    E:progressively more unrealistic
    F:5%

    答案:A
    解析:
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是女性对自己的外貌持挑剔态度。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是和女性相比,男性对自己的外貌更为肯定和自信。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是男女之所以对自己的外貌会有如此不同看法的原因。该段第一句即为主题句。
    本题考查的是对所读材料的大意和主旨的掌握。本段主要讲的是想成为一位不论是身材还是脸蛋都很“完美”的女性的概率非常之小。该段第一句是本段的主题句。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第二段最后一句:Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.有些男性照镜子时甚至看不到自己外貌中的瑕疵。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第三段第二句:Because women are judged on their appearance more than men,and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible.因为和男性相比,人们更多的是用外表来对女性进行判断,女性美的标准也更高,更为恒定不变。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第四段第一句:Also,most women are trying to achieve the impossible:standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century.再者,大多数女性努力想要实现不可能的事情:女性美的标准实际上在上个世纪已将变得越来越不切实际。
    本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是最后一段最后一句:If you want the ideal shape , face , etc , it's probably more like 1%.

  • 第22题:

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills ) , while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline ( 衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline.Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g."object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing.The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average.And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
    According to the passage, which of the following can NOT be typed into the same category?

    A.clouD.
    B.sheep
    C.trees
    D.goose

    答案:C
    解析:
    根据文章第五段People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills:matching an object to its rotated form,matching lines shown from the same angle…推断,以白色为限定范畴可推出选项C为答案。

  • 第23题:

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills ) , while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline ( 衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline.Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g."object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing.The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average.And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
    One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that__________ .

    A.the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline
    B.people surveyed are all olD.
    C.people taking part in this test came from all over the worlD.
    D.women live longer than men

    答案:A
    解析:
    由第四段的Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people,and women live longer than men…可以推出A正确。

  • 第24题:

    填空题
    The ratio of men to women in a room is 4: 5. If the room contains three more women than men, how many women are in the room?____

    正确答案: 15
    解析:
    根据题干可假设,屋子里的男人有4x,女人有5x,又因为男人比女人多3,所以5x=4x+3,所以x = 3。所以屋子里有女人5(3)= 15人。