Women’s roles have changed throughout the world in recent years, but nowhere so obviously as in America .55________ .In many American homes today ,the husband still carries on his traditional role of breadwinner ,while his homemaker wife is in charge of the home and child―raising. But it is more and more common to find that the children are left in day care centers or nursery schools while both parents work .56___________. At home, household duties are shared in varying degrees by all family members .It is not unusual to find father cooking dinner, cleaning the living room or changing the baby .57 ______.Children have responsibilities, too .One of the goals of the Women’s Liberation Movement has been to have both men and women share in childcare, housework and financial responsibility. 58_____.
The high cost of living has made it necessary for many women to have jobs outside the home ,but women often choose to have jobs in order to use their skills and education or to seek a more fulfilling and interesting life .Many American women enjoy the independence that an outside job and the salary give men and even some women―sometimes are not for women working outside the home ,and in some cases ,a woman might be paid less than a man who performs the same job .59____.
A. As the roles of women have changed, so have men’s
B. The woman may earn as much or more money than her husband
C. Mother might be outside mowing the lawn or washing the car
D. Today many American women will not marry a man who is not willing to share equally in household responsibilities
E. American women, however, have met challenges（挑战）since pioneer days ,and they continue to work for true equality
F. women didn’t play an important role in the past
G. women in
快捷英语周周练系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：江苏省南京市白下区2011届高三二模英语试题 题型：001
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第一节：(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1．How farther should the two speakers need to go?
A．Two more miles．
B．Another mile．
C．Three more miles．
2．When will the lecture begin?
A．At 8∶00．
B．At 8∶15．
C．At 7∶45．
3．What does the woman mean?
A．She will go to the party today．
B．She wants to go tomorrow evening．
C．She won't go to the party today．
4．Where is the conversation most likely to take place?
A．At a department store．
B．In a club．
C．In the zoo．
5．How much does the man have to pay if he wants to buy just one today?
A．＄3.50．
B．＄4．
C．＄6．
第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6－7题。
6．Where are the two speakers?
A．In the office．
B．In a restaurant．
C．At home
7．What's wrong with the woman?
A．She can't sleep well．
B．She has a fever．
C．She can't work any more．
听第7材料，回答第8－10题。
8．What's the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A．Employee and employer．
B．Visitor and native．
C．Traveler and hotelkeeper．
9．What can the man get from the youth hostels?
A．Bed．
B．Bed and breakfast
C．Bed, breakfast and newspaper．
10．What's the man likely to do?
A．Look for information in the paper．
B．Walk around the streets．
C．Sign to be a member for the youth hostels．
听第8段材料，回答第11－13题。
11．What are the two speakers talking about?
A．Jobs．
B．Going to the university．
C．Women's role in the society
12．Why didn't grandma go to the university when she was young?
A．Because her family was poor．
B．Because it was improper for her to do so．
C．Because she got married．
13．What can we learn from the conversation?
A．The woman's mother has lost her job．
B．The woman's father has no job．
C．The woman's grandma had no job．
听第9段材料，回答第14－16题。
14．Where does this conversation most probably take place?
A．In a classroom．
B．On TV．
C．At a meeting．
15．What is the man?
A．A futurologist．
B．A programmer．
C．A reporter．
16．What will happen by the middle of this century?
A．Digital technology will begin to change our life．
B．More than three billion people will use the Internet．
C．We will be working and shopping on line．
听第10段材料，回答第17－20题。
17．Why did the speaker ask the people to leave the building?
A．Because something explosive was found in the building．
B．Because a fire broke out in the building．
C．Because actors and actresses refused to play the last act．
18．What were people asked to do to the elderly and disabled people?
A．To leave them where they were．
B．To hold them firmly．
C．To give any help if necessary．
19．What should one do when he sees something strange?
A．Remove it．
B．Inform one attendant．
C．Go away at once．
20．Where was this announcement made?
A．In a theater．
B．In a supermarket．
C．At an airport．
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there 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 customs, 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 foods.
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－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 the abilities and interests of each of them.
6. Which of the following is the topic of this passage?
A. The marriage of women: past and present.
B. Women and their jobs.
C. The social changes in the lives of women.
D. Women's role in family life.
7. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the amount of time the women spent taking care of children ________.
A. was shorter than in previous centuries
B. was longer than in previous centuries
C. was considered to be surprisingly long
D. accounted for a great part of their lives
8. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ________.
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. need not worry about food for her children
D. can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty
9. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________.
A. stay at home after leaving school
B. marry men younger than themselves
C. start working again later in life
D. marry while still at school
10. What can be inferred from the last sentence?
A. The husband tends to share greater share of duties of family life.
B. In the past, the husband used to provide money for the family while the wife ran the home.
C. The wife does not have her own abilities and interests.
D. Both the husband and the wife should be satisfied with their family life.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年湖北武汉部分重点（四校）高二上学期期中英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Until recently, women in advertisements wore one of three things — an apron, an attractive dress or a frown. Although that is now changing, many women still feel angry about offending advertisements. “This ad degrades women.” they protested（抗议）.Why does this sort of advertising exist? How can advertisers and ad agencies still produce, sometimes, after months of research, advertising that offends the consumer?
The ASA, the body which deals with complaints about print media, is carrying out research into how women feel about the way they are pictured in advertisements. Its conclusions are likely to be what the advertising industry already knows: although women are often annoyed by the ads, few feel strong enough to complain.
Women are not the only victims of poor and boring stereotypes（老套）— in many TV commercials men are seen either as useless, childish fools who are unable to perform the simplest household tasks, or as inconsiderate fellows, always on the lookout for an escape to the pub. But it is women who seem to suffer more from the industry’s inability to put people into an authentic present-day situation. Yet according to Emma Bennett, director of a London advertising agency, women are not aggressive or extremely angry about those stereotypes and sexist （歧视妇女）advertising. “They just find it annoying or tiresome.”
She says that it is not advertising’s use of the housewife role that bothers women, but the way in which it is handled. “The most important thing is the advertisement’s tone of voice. Women hate being insincerely praised or given desperately down-to-earth common-sense advice.”
In the end, the responsibility for good advertising must be shared between the advertiser, the advertising agency and the consumer. Advertising does not set trends but it reflects them. It is up to the consumer to tell advertisers where they fail, and the process of change will remain slow until people on the receiving end take the business seriously and make their –feelings known.
【小题1】Despite recent changes in attitudes, some advertisements still fail to .
| A．change women’s opinions of themselves |
| B．show any understanding of consumers’ feelings |
| C．persuade the public to buy certain products |
| D．meet the needs of the advertising industry |
| A．condemn the role of the housewife |
| B．ignore protests about advertisements |
| C．present a misleading image of women |
| D．picture the activities of men wrongly |
| A．give further emphasis to practical advice |
| B．change their style rather than their content |
| C．use male images instead of female ones |
| D．sing higher praise for women than before |
| A．take its job more eagerly |
| B．do more pioneering work |
| C．take notice of the public opinion |
| D．concentrate on the products advertised |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012届江苏省扬州市扬州中学高三开学考试英语卷 题型：阅读理解
Did you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? The average women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s. Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent(聪明的) than women. Right? Wrong. Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size. Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain. The brain consists of “grey matter” and “white matter” while men have more of latter, the amount of “thinking” brain is almost exactly the same in both sexes.
It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women. This means that little girls tend to learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of information from different sources at the same time. When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time.
There are other important differences between two sexes. As white matter is the key to spatial(空间的) tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things. “A great footballer always knows where he is in relation to the other players, and he knows where to go,” says one researcher. That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions … and women often need to!
The differences begin when fetuses(胎儿) are about mine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children ad young as one. A boy would try to climb a barrier (障碍物) before him or push it down while a girl would attract help from others. These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills. It may all go back to our ancestors, among whom women needed speech skills to take care of their babies and men needed spatial skills to hunt, according to one research.
If all this disappoints you, it shouldn’t. “The brain changes throughout our lives according to what we do with it.” says a biologist.
【小题1】Which of the following is true according to the first paragraph?
| A．Women’s brain is 10% less than men’s |
| B．Grey matter plays the same role as white matter. |
| C．Both sexes have the same amount of white matter. |
| D．Grey matter controls thinking in the brain. |
| A．Men do better dealing with one job at a time. |
| B．Women prefer doing many things at a time. |
| C．Women do not need to tell directions. |
| D．Men have weaker spatial abilities. |
| A．Young boys may be stronger than young girls. |
| B．More women take up jobs requiring speech skills |
| C．Women may have stronger feelings than men. |
| D．Our ancestors needed more spatial skills. |
| A．Defensive. | B．Persuasive. | C．Objective. | D．Supportive. |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013－2014学年湖北省高二上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
It’s going to be a busy day at Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia on Thursday. She won’t be there, since she died in 1836, but hundreds of tourists will be going through her house.
You see, Thursday is Flag Day in the United States. The unofficial holiday commemorates the adoption of the stars-and-stripes design of the American flag by the Continental Congress 235 years ago, on June 14, 1777. According to lore, the Ross House is the birthplace of the nation’s flag. That’s open to debate, but it’s a story that schoolbooks still tell. Betsy Ross was a seamstress, busy sewing cushions for chairs in Philadelphia, which was the focus place of the American revolution against British rule. The Declaration of Independence by the colonists was signed there, and so was the new nation’s Constitution after independence was won.
Widowed when her husband, a member of the local militia, was killed in a gunpowder explosion, Betsy Ross often mended the clothes of the rebels’ leader and future U.S. president, George Washington. According to what some say in history and others a stretch of what really happened, Washington asked Ross to design and sew the new nation’s flag. The story was promoted by Ross grandson, who wrote that Betsy Ross had “made with her hands the first flag.” She became a role model for girls - a shining example of women’s contributions to the nation’s history. Most research indicates that Ross did sew the first flag. She’s credited with substituting artful five-point white stars for six-pointed ones in the upper-left blue field. But many other accounts indicate George Washington brought the design to Ross and simply asked her to stitch it together.
In a letter, Washington wrote: “We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her. And the white stripes shall go down to posterity as representing liberty.”
1.People would like to go to Ross’s house in Philadelphia to _____.
A. ask Betsy Ross who created the first American flag
B. meet her grandson who wrote a book about flags
C. debate over who designed the first American flag
D. remember her as the creator of the first American flag
2.Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. Betsy Ross was one of the people who signed The Declaration of Independence
B. All are in agreement that Ross designed the first American flag
C. It is almost certain that Ross did sew the first American flag
D. It is George Washington who designed the stars and stripes flag
3.The underlined the word “seamstress” in Paragraph 2 probably means_____.
A. a person who designs flags B. a person who makes a living by sewing
C. a person who takes part in revolution D. a person who creates chairs
4.What does the last paragraph imply according to the passage?
A. It implies that the U.S. is independent from Britain
B. It implies that Washington liked Ross’s design of the flag
C. It implies that Washington might be the designer of the flag
D. It implies that Ross did have helped with the design of the flag
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