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has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman"s life spent in caring for children. A woman
marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would
be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time
the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further
twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today
women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman"s youngest child will be fifteen when she
is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement
at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and
convenience food.
This important change in women"s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women"s
economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took
a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the
school- leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry
younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many
more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage,
with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband
and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to their abilities and
interests of each of them.
B. was considered to be surprisingly long
C. was longer than in previous centuries
D. was shorter than in previous centuries
B. at about twenty-five
C. at any age from fifteen to forty-five
D. soon after they were fifteen
B. would expect to work until she died
C. was usually expected to die fairly soon
D. would be healthy enough to take up paid employment
B. need not worry about food for her children
C. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
D. does not like children herself
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试题【阅读理解。 The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. Du】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and brings forth a different answer from every man who
bears these words. Some feel proud when they receive the news, while others worry, wondering whether
they will be good fathers. Although there are some men who like children and may have had considerable
experience with them, others do not particularly care for children and spend little time with them. Many fathers
and mothers have been planning and looking forward to children for some time. For other couples, pregnancy
was an accident that both husband and wife have accepted willingly or unwillingly.
Whatever the reaction to the birth of a child, it is obvious that the shift from the role of husband to that of
father is a difficult task. Yet, unfortunately, few attempts have been made to educate fathers in this
remobilization process. Although numerous books have been written about American mothers, only recently
has literature focused on the role of a father.
It is argued by some writers that the transition to the father"s role, although difficult, is not nearly as great
as the transition the wife must make to the mother"s role. The mother"s role seems to require complete
transformation in daily routine and highly innovative adaptation; on the other hand, the father"s role is less
demanding and immediate. However, even though we mentioned the fact that growing number of women are
working outside the home, the father is still thought by many as the breadwinner in the household.
B. has a different meaning for those who have daughters
C. makes some men feel proud and others uneasy
D. means nothing but more responsibilities
B. make a complete change in her everyday life to deal with the new situation
C. stay at home to take care of the baby
D. help her husband in his remobilization process
B. have to make more difficult adaptations
C. have an easier job to do
D. can usually do a better job
sat down at the next table. I couldn"t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman
asked, " So, how have you been?" And the boy, who could not have been more than seven or eight years old,
replied, "Frankly, I"ve been a little depressed lately."
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far
as I can remember, my friends and I didn"t find out we were "depressed" until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don"t seem childlike
anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used
to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no
longer exists, why?
Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological states, but also on patterns of access
to social knowledge. Movement from one social role (作用) to another usually involves learning the secrets of
the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: we tell sixth graders
things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been brought in 98 percent of
American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, indiscriminately (不
加区分地). Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less
challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social
information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbol that must
be memorized and practiced. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.
B. naturally and by biological instinct (本能)
C. gradually and under guidance
D. through exposure to social information
B. the poor arrangement of teaching content
C. the fast pace of human intellectual development
D. the constantly rising standard of living
B. It develops children"s interest in reading and writing.
C. It helps children to memorize and practice more.
D. It can control what children are to learn.
B. He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note.
C. He considers it a positive development.
D. He seems to be upset about it.
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ask people passing by for a small amount of money and some just sit and wait to be given money. A few
use aggressive(侵略性的) behaviour to earn money.
To solve the problem of aggressive begging, an "alternative giving" plan has been suggested. Ten blue
money boxes will be placed in busy places such as the market and the railway station. It is aimed at
encouraging people not to give money directly to beggars but instead to give money generously to local
homeless causes.
Supporters of this plan think it will be an effective way to solve the beggars" alcohol and drug problems.
But the police are against the plan. They argue that beggars who do not receive cash may commit crimes
to satisfy their own needs. The homeless. charity (慈善机构) says that the success of any plan will depend
on its style. They think that in a certain degree imaginative and positive plans may help to create local
understanding and sympathy (同情). Most of the beggars dislike the plan because they think they will not
get enough money from the boxes for their showers, food and clothes.
Begging is a big social problem both in developing and developed countries. Governments must play an
active part in solving this problem. Training beggars to work and helping them to find appropriate jobs is
one choice. This is especially true for developing countries where many low-skill jobs exist.
The public should also be educated to see a beggar not as dirty and dangerous, but as people who need
understanding and help.
| Begging problem |
| 阅读理解。 |
| Reading poems is not exactly an everyday activity for most people. In fact, many people never read a poem once they get out of high school. It is worth reminding ourselves that this has not always been the case in America. In the nineteenth century, a usual American activity was to sit around the fireside in the evening and read poems aloud. It is true that there was no television at the time, nor movie theaters, nor World Wide Web, to provide diversion. However, poems were a source of pleasure, of self-education, of connection to other people or to the world beyond one"s own community. Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual. Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, like reading poems by the fireside, another way in which poetry has a place in everyday life. How did things change? Why are most Americans no longer comfortable with poetry, and why do most people today think that a poem has nothing to tell them and that they can do well without poems? There are, I believe, three factors: poets, teachers, and we ourselves. Of these, the least important is the third: the world surrounding the poem has betrayed us more than we have betrayed the poem. Early in the twentieth century, poetry in English headed into directions unfavorable to the reading of poetry. Readers decided that poems were not for the fireside or the easy chair. at night, and that they belonged where other difficult-to-read things belonged. Poets failed the reader, so did teachers. They want their students to know something about the skills of a poem, they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles. |
| 1. Reading poems is thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century because _____. |
| A. it built a link among people B. it helped unite a community C. it was a source of self-education D. it was a source of pleasure |
| 2. The underlined word "diversion" most probably means _____. |
| A. concentration B. change C. amusements D. stories |
| 3. According to the passage, what is the main cause of the great gap between readers and poetry? |
| A. Students are becoming less interested in poetry. B. Students are poorly educated in high school. C. TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry. D. Poems have become difficult to understand. |
| 4. In the last paragraph, the writer question _____. |
| A. the difficulty in studying poems B. the way poems are taught in school C. students" wrong ideas about poetry D. the techniques used in writing poem |
| 短文填词。 阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：(1)汉语提示；(2)首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一 个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。 |