After her husband died, she ___ another man in 1964.A、marriedB、married withC、married toD
A.married
B.married with
C.married to
D.was married to
A、married
A.married
B.married with
C.married to
D.was married to
A、married
ld and returned to live with her mother Demeter, Goddess of Corn, for the rest of the year reflect the return of spring after winter.
A.Leto
B.Echo
C.Artemis
D.Persephone
For several weeks Mrs. White hoped, like many of her friends, to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends, however, she never lost heart. Her kitchen was full of things which she did not really need. Her husband tried again and again to persuade her to give it up, but she just wouldn't listen. She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket would come up to say, "Madam. this is your lucky day. Everything in your basket today is free."
One Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken it to her car, she found that she had forgotten to buy some tea. She rushed back to the supermarket, got the tea and went to the desk to pay for it. As she was walking, she saw the manager of the supermarket coming up. "Madam," he said warmly, holding out his hand, "I want to congratulate you! You are our lucky customer today. Everything you've got in your basket is free."
People went to the supermarket to ______.
A.buy food
B.be lucky customers
C.get free things
D.meet the manager
Mr Richards has worked in a small seaside town for about ten years and he and his wife have a comfortable house near the sea. During the winter they would be quite happy, but every summer a lot of their relatives used to spend holiday in their house, and it was much cheaper than staying in hotel. Finally one day in June Mr Richards complained to a clever friend of his who lived in the same place. "One of my wife's cousins is going to bring her husband and children and spend ten days with us next month again. How have you prevented all your relatives from coming to live with you in summer?" "Oh," the friend answered, "that is not difficult. I just borrow money from all the rich ones, and lend it to all the poor ones. After that, they seldom come again." Hearing this Mr Richards smiled.
The relatives preferred to stay in Mr Richards's house because().
A.it was cool in summer
B.they might spend less money
C.they were more welcome
D.it was a comfortable place
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 chance, 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 usually marry younger, more married women stay at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to fuller part-time job. 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 house, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.
6. According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ____.
A. at about twenty-five
B. in their early fifties
C. as soon as possible after they were fifteen
D. at any age from fifteen to forty-five
7. We are told that in a common family in 1890s _____.
A. seven or eight children lived to be more man five
B. many children died before they were five
C. the youngest children would be fifteen
D. four or five children died when they were five
8. When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth century mother ____.
A. would be healthy enough to take paid jobs
B. was usually expected to die fairly soon
C. was unlikely to find a job if she wanted one
D. would expect to work till she died
9. According to the passage, the women of today usually____.
A. marry instead of getting paid work
B. marry before they are twenty-five
C. have more children under fifteen
D. have too few children
10. The best title for this passage is____.
A. Women’s Life
B. The Change of Women's life
C. Women's Marriage
D. Women's New Life
Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and bring forth a different response from every man who hears these words. Some feel pride 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 response to the birth of a child, it is clear that the change 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 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 change the wife must make to the mother's role. The mother's role seems to require a complete change in daily routine and adjustment, and the father's role is less demanding and immediate. However, even though we mentioned the fact that growing numbers of women are working outside the home, the father is still thought by many as the breadwinner in the household.
1.According to the author, how do men feel after they become fathers ().
A、They feel like they need some more experience
B、They have a feeling that they must do a lot of planning
C、Some men feel proud and others uneasy
D、They have a feeling of not caring about things
2.Which of the following is stated in the passage ().
A、Some parents have a child accidentally and they are not prepared.
B、Young couples do not want to have children at all these days.
C、Working couples turn to their parents to take care of their children.
D、Many parents look forward to having a girl as their first child
3.In the third paragraph, the author ().
A、thinks fathers should take their responsibilities in raising children
B、criticizes writers for writing so much about being a father
C、supports the idea that a father should also run the home well
D、complains that husbands cannot get much help being a father
4.The change of the mother's role requires that the wife ().
A、just do whatever she likes to do in her life
B、change completely to deal with the new situation
C、work only within her own home if she can
D、help her husband with his trade or business
5.Some writers argue that with respect to the change of roles, fathers, compared with mothers,().
A、have to bear more burdens
B、make a more difficult adjustment
C、have an easier job to do
D、shoulder more burdens
A.followed
B.deserted
C.canceled
D.scared
Passage 2 Questions 1to 5 are based on the following passage:
Sometimes a book can help change history. One book that certainly did was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a book that spoke out against slavery.
As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her book, there were over3.5 million slaves in the United States. Slaves were usually in the cotton-growing states of the South. The Northern States has ended slavery. Yet most northerners were not strongly against slavery. They did not mind that slavery continued in the South.
Stowe decided to make people understand that slavery was very bad. Each night after putting r six children to bed, she worked on her book. She told the owner. She also told how the slaves tried to run away for freedom. Uncle Tom’s Cabin first came in 1852. Over 300,000 books were sold out in a year.
People had different ideas about the book. In the North, many people finally believed that slavery must be ended after they read the book. In the South, many people were very angry at the people in the North. By 1861 the two parts of the country were at war. The Civil War, which lasted until of cease, was made to happen by many things. Yet Uncle Tom’s Cabin surely played a part. Stowe met President Linclon in 1862. As Linclon took her hand, he said, “So you are the woman who starred the big war.”
1、Before Uncle Tom’s Cabin came out, most Northerners ______.
A、were slaves in the South
B、did not know how bad slavery was
C、kept slaves in their homes
D、understood that slavery was wrong
2、While many Northerners agreed with Harriet Beacher Stowe,______.
A、many southerners wanted war
B、many southerners had not read the boo
C、many southerners were angry at her
D、some slaves tried to run away from North
3、From the text, we can infer that _______.
A、Stowe was a very young woman
B、Stowe’s husband was dead when she wrote the story
C、Stowe wrote her book with stories from her six children
D、Stowe could not work on her book at all during the daytime
4、Uncle Tom’s Cabin was _______.
A、a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe
B、a history book
C、a book that helped change history
D、a book about the American Civil war
5、Harriet Beecher Stowe _______.
A、was a little woman who started the American Civil War together with Abraham Linclon
B、was strongly against the slavery
C、helped some slaves to run away from the South
D、met Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War
______ her husband, her daughter also went to see the movie.
A.Except for
B.Beside
C.Except
D.Besides
Her husband died in 1992,().
A.left her with two children
B.being left her with two children
C.leaving her with two children
D.being leaving her with two children