根据以下材料，回答题
The flood ofwomen into the job market has boosted economic growth and changed the society 11many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done primarily by women-- 12from family shopping to preparing meals to 13 voluntarywork--still need to be done by someone.
Husbands andchildren now do some of these jobs, a situation that has changed the 14 market for many products. Or aworking woman may face a "poverty of time" and look for helpelsewhere, 15 opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child carecenters, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like.
16 there isstill a big wage gap between men and women, the income working women 17 gives them new independenceand buying power. For example, women now 18 about half of all cars. Not long ago,many car dealers 19 women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting thatthey come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that womenare potential customers. It′s interesting that some leading Japanese cardealers were the first to really pay attention to women customers though theJapanese society is 20 very much male-oriented.
考查介词用法。句意为“女人进入就业市场促进了经济增长，在很多方面改变了社会”。In many ways表示“在很多方面”，故选B。
考查动词辨析。range“(在……内)变动”，work“工作”，originate“起源”，start“开始”。破折号起解释说明的作用，句意为“很多以前主要由妇女完成的家务活，从家庭采购、一日三餐到义务工作，现在仍然需要有人来完成”。range from…to…指范围的变化，表示“从……到……”，故选A。
考查固定用法。to是介词，后面跟动名词形式。故选A。
考查近义词辨析。句意为“现在丈夫和孩子开始分担一些工作，这种情况已经改变了很 多产品的目标市场”。四个选项中的名词均有“目标、目的”之意。但target还可以用作定语名词。常用来修饰另一个名词，例如a target group(目标群)，a target market(目标市场)。故选B。
考查非谓语动词。根据句意可知，职业女性因为缺少时间而需要找帮手，这为冷冻食品生产商等服务行业创造了机会。这里用现在分词作结果状语，故选C。
考查连词辨析。therefore“因此”，although“尽管”，unless“除非”，since“因为，自从”。根据句意“尽管男女之间的工资水平仍存在着很大差距．但是职业女性的收入却赋予了她们新的独立性和购买力”可知答案为B。
考查谓语动词。分析句子结构可知，“working women 17”为定语从句，修饰先行词income，此处缺少的是定语从句的谓语，且从句的主语是复数，根据主谓一致原则，谓语动词用generate。
考查句意理解。根据上一句中的buying power可知这里是举例说明职业女性的购买力。故选D。
考查动词辨析。criticize“批评”，blame“责备”，insult“侮辱”，warn“警告”。根据句意“很多汽车经销商通过无视她们的存在或暗示她们应该和丈夫一起来选车的方式来侮辱女性消费者”可知答案为C。
考查副词辨析。still“仍然”，almost“几乎”，quite“很，非常”，totally“完全”。though一词表示句子前后存在让步关系，句意为“尽管日本仍然是男性主导的社会，但最先关注女性消费群体的却是日本的汽车经销商”。故选A。