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单选题Women’s high participation in informal employment is______ the fact that many jobs in the formal economy are not open to them.A owed by B due toC on accountD because

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Women’s high participation in informal employment is______ the fact that many jobs in the formal economy are not open to them.
A

owed by    

B

due to

C

on account

D

because


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  • 第1题:

    请阅读短文,完成此题。
    It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
    Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
    Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.

    The underlined word "innovations" in Para.2 may be replaced by
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    A.efficiency
    B.productivity
    C.innovations
    D.transforming

    答案:C
    解析:
    根据“novations”之后的内容“as the spinningjenny,the sewing machine,the typewriter,and the vacuum cleaner…”可知纺纱机、缝纫机、打字机、吸尘器之类的产生属于科技上的革新。C项“innovations”意为“革新,革命”,符合题意。

  • 第2题:

    请阅读短文,完成此题。
    It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
    Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
    Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.

    Which of the following statement is Not true?
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    A.Now the phenomenon of choosing employees by gender does no longer exist.
    B.Women have little opportunity for promotion.
    C.Women are needed to do much housework.
    D.Women always get low pay in their occupations.

    答案:A
    解析:
    A项意为“如今,按性别雇佣员工的现象已经不复存在。”这与第三段第二句中“the segregation of occupations by gender”(按性别区分职业)相矛盾,因此不正确。其他选项均可在第三段第二句中找到依据。

  • 第3题:

    请阅读短文,完成此题。
    It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
    Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
    Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.

    What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
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    A.The mechanization of work has a revolutionary eftct.
    B.The social mechanization would "aftct women's lives.
    C.The social status of women has changed.
    D.Observers have different ideas about the effect of social mechanizatiou.

    答案:B
    解析:
    第一段讲到,普遍认为:劳动的机械化对操作机器的人以及引进机器的社会都有革命性的影响。工业中雇佣妇女使她们从家务这样的传统领域中解放出来,并且从根本上改善了她们在社会上的地位。接着讲到,观察者关于社会机械化对妇女的影响持有不同观点,但他们一致认为这必将改变妇女们的生活。由此可知,第一段主要讲了社会机械化对妇女的影响,B项符合。

  • 第4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.
    An optimist may hold that lead to the phenomenon that more women are not working_____

    A.crimes committed in the past
    B.preferences for early marriage
    C.illiteracy and parenting duty
    D.pressures from the poor welfare

    答案:C
    解析:
    事实细节题。根据定位词定位到第五段。原文指出,乐观主义者可能会说,更多的女性没有工作,是因为印度仍在为过去的罪恶买单。当时很多女性都是文盲,高生育率让她们不得不待在家里,C项符合原文所述,故C项为正确选项。【干扰排除】文章并没有提到过去犯了什么罪,A项错误;B、D项与本题无关,故排除。

  • 第5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.Once India balanced its workforce again,it would probably bring the following benefits except____.

    A.a wealthier India
    B.a higher living standard
    C.a brighter future for children
    D.a heavy investment in education

    答案:D
    解析:
    事实细节题。根据定位词定位到文章第二段。原文指出,如果印度以这种方式重新平衡劳动力,那么这个世界上最大的民主国家将会富足27%,A项是好处之一;它的人民将会顺利地走在通往中等收入的道路上,B项是好处之一;工作的女性更有可能在孩子的成长过程中投入更多的资金,C项属于合理推断;D项原文未提及,故D项为正确选项。【干扰排除】由以上分析可知,A、B、C项均为平衡劳动力带来的好处,故排除。

  • 第6题:

    High boots were the ___ for women last year.

    A.vague
    B.vain
    C.vogue
    D.void

    答案:C
    解析:
    本题考察形近词辨析,题目意为“长筒靴去年在女性中很流行。”A选项意为“模糊的”,B选项意为“徒劳的”,C选项意为“时尚,潮流”,D选项意为“空虚,空间”。根据句意应为长筒靴很流行。
      

  • 第7题:

    共用题干
    The Industrial Age and Employment

    The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's
    work has taken the form of jobs.The industrial age may now be coming to an end,and
    some of the changes in work patterns which it brought about may have to be reversed.This
    seems a daunting(大胆的)thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better
    future for work.Universal employment,as its history shows,has not meant economic freedom.
    Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries
    made many people dependent on paid work by depriving(剥夺)them of the use of the
    land,and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves.Then the factory system
    destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes.Later,as
    transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted(乘车往返)longer
    distances to their places of employment until,eventually,many people's work lost all
    connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.
    Meanwhile,employment put women at a disadvantage.In pre-industrial times,men
    and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community.Now it
    became customary(惯例的)for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the
    unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.Tax and benefit regulations still assume this
    norm today,and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
    It was not only women whose work status suffered.As employment became the
    dominant form of work,young people and old people were excluded-a problem now,as
    more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.
    All this may now have to change.The time has certainly come to switch some efforts
    and resources away from the utopian(乌托邦的)goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent
    practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

    Employed women of equal qualifications are paid less than men.
    A:Right
    B:Wrong
    C:Not mentioned

    答案:C
    解析:

  • 第8题:

    It’s hard to make talks successful between the British and Irish governments without the participation of()and()
    Sinn Fein;IRA

  • 第9题:

    Given the high price,() it's not surprising they didn't buy it.

    • A、and
    • B、but
    • C、–(不填)
    • D、that

    正确答案:C

  • 第10题:

    问答题
    Passage 3  The greatest impact on the family over the last 50 years has been the changing role of the wife. These changes have affected not only her life but also that of her husband and children. (1) The family has changed from an economically defined unit under the authority of the father and having minimal interpersonal emotional ties to a unit with strong emotional ties directed primarily by the mother to her husband and children. One important result was greater emotional and general psychological seclusion of the woman which clearly implied that the female role was culturally a secondary one.  In recent decades it has become clear that for a distinct minority of American women the traditional mother role in the seclusion of the home is no longer acceptable. For many the family is of diminishing importance. The development of education for women has been a crucial factor in this change. Today, over 80 percent of all women complete four years of high school as compared to only 35 percent in 1940. This is related to the fact that marriage now occurs a year later for the average woman. The proportion of women aged 20 to 24 who are single increased from 28 percent in 1960 to 40 percent by the mid-1970s. (2) Child bearing is being postponed, so that compared to the 1960s, 10 percent fewer women bear their first Enid in the two years immediately following marriage. Furthermore, more women today remain childless. Work, older age at marriage, and fewer children are the basic changes that have taken place in women’s roles in recent years.  The trend among women is toward increased education, and this is linked to other role changes. (3) The higher a woman’s educational attainment, the more likely she is to work, to stay in the labor force longer, and to have more job opportunities available to her. This further suggests that when women are married their work has a great impact on their marriages. For example, since working wives contribute 25 to 40 percent of their total family income, their position as decision-makers in the family is usually strengthened. (4) Waits points out that the social trends towards increased education for women mean not only more work experience but also delayed marriage and decreased fertility. These changes, in turn, point the way toward even greater labor force participation throughout the life cycle.  The number of women entering the work force is rapidly increasing. Women outnumber men in the total population by about 7 million. (5) When that is added to the fact that labor force participation of males is slowly declining because of the trend toward earlier retirement, “it may not be too long before one out of every two American workers is a woman.”

    正确答案: 1. 家庭在过去是一个经济意义上的单位,在家中父亲说了算,家庭成员之间很少有情感交流;现在的家庭则变成了一个由母亲主导的、与其丈夫和孩子之间有强烈情感维系的单位。
    (本句是一个很长的简单句,主干是The family has changed…,其后的介词结构from…to…是本句的状语。其中属于from这一部分的under…the father和having…emotional ties是an economically defined unit的两个并列后置定语。属于to这一部分的with…是a unit的介词后置定语。而directed by…and children则是strong emotional ties的分词后置定语。在翻译这样的长句时,必须使用拆译法,将句意疏通。)
    2. 人们生儿育女的时间正在推迟,使得如今结婚两年后就生第一个孩子的女性比20世纪60年代少了10%。
    (本句结构相对简单,So that前是主句,其后是结果状语从句。在这一从句中,compared to the l960s是 从句中的插入语,而immediately following marriage是从句的时间状语。在翻译时考生主要注意主句是被动 语态,不符合中文习惯,应译成相应的主动语态。)
    3. 受教育程度越高,妇女去工作的可能性就越大,其从业时间就会越久,其就业机会也会更多。
    (本题考查的主要是对the more…the more…这一习惯表达的理解和翻译。要注意的是本题后面是 三个并列的比较级不定式结构,翻译时要注意体现出作者的语气。词汇方面,educational attainment指的是.受教育程度,stay in the labor force可译为从业,工作。)
    4. Waits指出,女性受教育程度不断提高的社会趋势不仅意味着(女性)会有更多的工作经历,还意味着(她们的)婚姻会推迟及生育减少。
    (在结构上,句子主干是Waits points out,后面的that引导的是一个宾语从句,其中又含有一个not only …but also…结构,引出mean的两个宾语。词汇方面,注意fertility指的是女性的生育(能力)。)
    5. 再加上由于提前退休已成为趋势,男性劳力正在慢慢减少这一事实,每两个美国工人中就有一个是女性的局面也许为时不远了。
    (在句子结构上,逗号前的部分是句子的时问状语,主句则是直接引语部分。在这个时间状语从句中,第一个that指代的是本句前的一句话,第二个that引导的是一个同位语从句,修饰the fact;主句中含有一个由连词before引导的主语从句one out of…is a woman,而it作形式主语。)
    解析: 暂无解析

  • 第11题:

    单选题
    Women’s high participation in informal employment is______ the fact that many jobs in the formal economy are not open to them.
    A

    owed by    

    B

    due to

    C

    on account

    D

    because


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    女子大量参与不正式的雇用关系是由于很多正规的经济并不向她们开放。due to由于,因为。on account分期付款,与of连用表示“由于”。owe欠(债等); 应该向(某人)付出。because因为,常独立引导原因状语从句。

  • 第12题:

    单选题
    The growth of part-time and flexible working pattern, and of training and retraining schemes, ______ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities.
    A

    have allowed  

    B

    allow    

    C

    allows

    D

    allowing


    正确答案: C
    解析:
    本句的主语是the growth,因此谓语动词应该为第三人称单数。句意:兼职和弹性工作方式与培训和再培训方案的增加/发展使得越来越多的妇女有更多的就业机会。

  • 第13题:

    请阅读短文,完成此题。
    It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
    Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
    Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.

    Why did the numbers of married women employers increase in the 20th century?
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    A.The mechanization of housework.
    B.The married women have much spare time.
    C.The employers don't want to hire the single women.
    D.Because of their own economic uecessity and high marriage rates.

    答案:D
    解析:
    根据题于中的“the numbers ofmarried women employers increase in the 20th century,’可定位至第二段末句“llle increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers,previously,in many cases,the only women employers would hire.”由此可知,20世纪已婚妇女职员的增加是因为她们经济上的必需性,以及结婚率的升高。D项符合。

  • 第14题:

    请阅读短文,完成此题。
    It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
    Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
    Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.

    The best title of the passage may be
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    A.The Influence of Mechanization
    B.The Status of Women is Changing
    C.Changes of Women's Work
    D.Are Women and Men Equal

    答案:C
    解析:
    文章开头讲到,工业机械化使妇女从家务这样的传统领域中解脱,即使更多妇女参加工作,进而影响她们的生活和地位,接着文章讲到从工业革命时期到19世纪80年代,到20世纪妇女工作的发展变化,最后讲到,在过去的200年中,妇女的工作有了相当程度的变化,但仍然存在一些问题。综合全文内容可知,本文主要讲述了妇女工作的发展变化。C项符合。

  • 第15题:

    共用题干
    Women with AIDS
    For a long time women with HIV were ignored because the focus was totally on HIV men.The gay community was very much in sight and vocal and successfully got support for its cause.Now we are rapidly approaching the point where about one half of all AIDS cases in the world are women .But no one is taking this dangerously high level of infection among women seriously enough.
    Women usually have a worse time dealing with HIV than men do.In most cases,the woman is taking care of children as well as her sick partner. She may not even have time to take care of her-self. The HIV- positive woman ends up shouldering the family as well as her own personal prob- lems.Men,however,are usually the ones who have insurance income and access to doctors.They get care.Women often do not.
    The discrimination against HIV-positive women is simply terrible.They are likely to be more inactive than men in home and workplace because too many people think that women are the cause of the discase .This is not at all true.They get it from a man.They don't just simply have HIV.Of cause,there's a social discrimination against all people with HIV.They are scared that other peo- ple will know they are HIV-positive and that they will,therefore be discriminated against.For ex-ample,it's very difficult for people with HIV to travel.They are not allowed to enter many coun- tries,including the United States,China and Russia.
    The biggest difficulty an HIV-positive woman must face is the isolation.Once the woman knows she's HIV-positive,she lives in fear that other people will find out. She's so frightened she will go into hiding,into an isolated place by herself. It's not at all uncommon to meet a woman who has been HIV-positive for nearly 10 years and has never told anyone,except her doctor. And the resulting stress is enough to make her sick.But HIV-positive women who get support,who can discuss their trouble and then do something about it-whether that means taking better care of them-selves or going to the United Nations to struggle for their rights-are likely to live longer. Active women don't die out of shame in a corner. This happens to too many HIV-positive women.

    The high level of infection among women has been taken seriously.
    A: Right
    B: Wrong
    C: Not mentioned

    答案:B
    解析:
    第一段倒数第二句讲到“全球艾滋病病例中的一半都是女性”,因此本句表述是正确的。




    第一段最后一句讲到“no one is taking this dangerously high level of infection among women senousiy enougn”,即没人把女性中危险的高感染率当真。因此本句的表述是错误的。




    虽然文章第三段最后一句提到很多国家不允许他们入境,如美国、中国和俄罗斯,却并没有说这些国家的艾滋病感染者最多。因此选项C是正确的。




    文章第三段描述了患艾滋病的女性所受的攻视,但是中间也提到“there's a social discrimination against all people with HIV”,所以应该是所有患艾滋病的人都会受到社会攻视。本句陈述是错误的,选项B是正确的。




    最后一段第一句就说:" The biggest difficulty an HIV-positive woman must face is the isolation a”因而本句表述是正确的,选项A是正确的。




    文章最后一段讲到那些得到支持并且能同他人讨论自己的问题,从而采取对策的 HIV呈阳性的女人可能会活的更长,而对具备这些特质的女人,作者在后文中称呼她们为“active women”。因此该句表述是正确的,选项A是正确的。




    文章中并没有直接明说,但是从最后一段作者对消极应村艾滋病的种种危害的描述来看,他是鼓励患艾滋病的女性能勇敢地告诉他人以减轻自己的压力,更好的治疗。因此选项A是正确的。

  • 第16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 suitablejob.
    Which ofthe following would be the best title ofthe text?

    A.Why Indian Women Don't Work
    B.Why India Needs Women to Work
    C.Why India's Employment Rate Is Low
    D.Why India's Employment Rate Declines

    答案:B
    解析:
    主旨大意题。本文主要讲了印度女性就业率低的原因,印度想要平衡劳动力及女性需要工作的原因,故B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项,文中说的是印度女性就业率低,而不是不工作;c项是文章的一部分,不能概括文章主旨;D项,原文并未提及印度就业率下降的原因。故均排除。

  • 第17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18题:

    共用题干
    The Industrial Age and Employment

    The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's
    work has taken the form of jobs.The industrial age may now be coming to an end,and
    some of the changes in work patterns which it brought about may have to be reversed.This
    seems a daunting(大胆的)thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better
    future for work.Universal employment,as its history shows,has not meant economic freedom.
    Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries
    made many people dependent on paid work by depriving(剥夺)them of the use of the
    land,and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves.Then the factory system
    destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes.Later,as
    transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted(乘车往返)longer
    distances to their places of employment until,eventually,many people's work lost all
    connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.
    Meanwhile,employment put women at a disadvantage.In pre-industrial times,men
    and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community.Now it
    became customary(惯例的)for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the
    unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.Tax and benefit regulations still assume this
    norm today,and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
    It was not only women whose work status suffered.As employment became the
    dominant form of work,young people and old people were excluded-a problem now,as
    more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.
    All this may now have to change.The time has certainly come to switch some efforts
    and resources away from the utopian(乌托邦的)goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent
    practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

    Now is the time to handle the issue of employment in a practical manner.
    A:Right
    B:Wrong
    C:Not mentioned

    答案:A
    解析:

  • 第19题:

    Student participation(参与)in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the student in many courses.Some professors base part of the final grade on the student′s oral participation.Although there are formal lectures during which the student has a passive role(i.e.,listening and taking notes),many courses are organized around classroom discussions,student questions,and informal lectures.In graduate discussions the professor has a"manager"role and the students make presentations and lead discussions.,The students do the actual teaching in these discussions.
    A professor′s teaching method is another factor(因素)that determines the degree and type of student participation.Some professors prefer to control discussion while others prefer to guide the class without controlling it.Many professors encourage students to question their ideas.Students who object to the professor′s point of view should be prepared to prove their positions.
    In the teaching of science and mathematics,the controlling mode of instruction is generally traditional,with teachers presenting formal lectures and student staking notes.However,new educational trends have turned up in the humanities and social sciences in the past twenty years.Students in education,society,and history classes,for example,are often required to solve problems in groups,design projects,make presentations,and examine case studies.Since some college or university courses are"practical"rather than theoretical,they pay more attention to"doing"for themselves.

    "Participation in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the student"in many courses except in__________.

    A.science and mathematics
    B.the humanities and social sciences
    C.informal lecture courses
    D.discussion courses

    答案:A
    解析:
    考情点拨:事实细节题。应试指导:最后一段第一句指出,在讲授科学和数学课程时,讲授的控制模式大都是传统的方式。

  • 第20题:

    The population decreased from the 1840s until about 1970,largely because of().

    Aa low birth rate

    Ba high death rate

    Ca low employment rate

    Da high emigration rate


    D

  • 第21题:

    The population decreased from the 1840s until about 1970,largely because of().

    • A、a low birth rate
    • B、a high death rate
    • C、a low employment rate
    • D、a high emigration rate

    正确答案:D

  • 第22题:

    单选题
    What does the passage mainly discuss?
    A

    Colonial marriages.

    B

    The Puritan religion.

    C

    Colonial women's employment.

    D

    Education in the colonies.


    正确答案: A
    解析:

  • 第23题:

    单选题
    The growth of part-time and flexible working pattern, and of training and retraining schemes, _____ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities.
    A

    have allowed

    B

    allow

    C

    allows

    D

    allowing


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    本句的主语是the growth,因此谓语动词应该为第三人称单数。句意:兼职和弹性工作方式与培训和再培训方案的增加/发展使得越来越多的妇女有更多的就业机会。

  • 第24题:

    单选题
    The population decreased from the 1840s until about 1970,largely because of().
    A

    a low birth rate

    B

    a high death rate

    C

    a low employment rate

    D

    a high emigration rate


    正确答案: D
    解析: 暂无解析