Many married women manage to go out to work and ______ a home as well.
A.move
B.start
C.run
D.keep
A.move
B.start
C.run
D.keep
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
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"Equal pay for equal work" is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are unfairly treated by society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work.
Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man is thought to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for them to be paid more.
Some are even against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. (80) If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time jobs, they will be unable to do the thing.s they are best at doing: makinga nice home and bringing up children.
Women who disagree say they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and to have freedom to choose between work and home life, or a mixture of the two.
Women have the right not only to equal pay but also to equal chances.
The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to ask society to__________. 查看材料
A.pay men less than women
B.give women harder work
C.pay men and women the same amount of money for the same work
D.pay people more who do harder work
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The Joy of Living Alone
More and more Americans are living atone. Some live atone because of divorce or the death of a partner._______(1) According to a recent U.S. census (人口普查), 25 percent of all households in the U.S. are made up of just one person. This is a dramatic change from the extended families of just a couple of generations ago.
The typical person living alone is neither old nor lonely._______(2) The majority of these people have chosen to live alone. They are responding to decreasing social pressure to get married and have a family.
It's now socially acceptable, even fashionable, to live alone. As people get better jobs and become financially independent, it becomes possible for them to maintain a one-person household._______(3) However, people who do get married are marrying at a later age and divorcing more often.
The number one reason given by most people for living alone is that they simply enjoy doing what they want when they want to do it. "Living alone is a luxury," says Nina Hagiwara, 38. "Once you do it, you can't ever go back to living with others." David C'Debaca, 46, agrees. _______(4)
Children think that being grown up means being able to do exactly as they please.
_______(5) The chance to discover whether that freedom is as wonderful as it sounds is a chance more and more Americans are taking.
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A.There's more pressure to get married nowadays.
B.The growing number of women with good jobs has done much to increase the number of people living alone.
C.However, even more people are living alone because they have chosen to.
D.It seems that many grown-ups today are realizing that childhood dream.
E.In fact, a quarter of the 23 million single people in the U.S. are under the age of 35.
F.He says, "I like being by myself."
A.Never have so many women
B.Never have women ever
C.Never so many women
D.Never have there be so many women
A. quest
B. strain
C. temptation
D. campaign
A.negotiation
B.continuity
C.bargain
D.doubt
(1)Twenty-five years ago most women().
A.had no children
B.worked
C.weren’t housewives
D.were housewives
(2)In those days men ().
A.saw their children in the evenings and on weekends
B.spent a lot of time with their children
C.played with the children all day
D.never saw the children
(3)Today there are ().
A.more housewives
B.more women working outside the home
C.not so many women working
D.no jobs for women
(4)Day-care centers help ().
A.working mothers with their children
B.housewives
C.with cooking and cleaning
D.women with the housework
(5)This passage is about ().
A.housewives
B.American men
C.how many American women are working
D.how family life in America is changing
A、so as to
B、as well as
C、so
D、as
Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today's immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 hnmigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now, consider three indices of assimilation—language, home ownership and intermarriage.
The 1990 Census revealed that a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English "well" or "very well" after ten years of residence. The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. "By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families". Hence the description of America as a graveyard "for language". By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans.
Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics "have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S. born whites and blacks". By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.
Rodriguez not that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet "some Americans fear that immigrant living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation's assimilative power".
Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of everything. But particularly when viewed against America's turbulent past, today's social induces suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.
The word "homogenizing"(Line 1, Paragraph 1) most probably means______.
A.identifying
B.associating
C.assimilating
D.monopolizing