单选题
"In every known human society the male's needs for
achievement can be recognized... In a great number if human societies men's
sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice
some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has
to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing
some feat." This is the conclusion of the anthropologist
Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society
should be distinguished. If talk and print are considered it
would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is
a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about
the complicated system of defences which men have thrown up around their
hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion
form types of occupation and sociable groupings; and sometimes the more subtle
form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women's pretensions to the level
of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of
running the world. There are a good many objective pieces of
evidence for the erosion of men's status. In the first place, there is the
widespread postwar phenomenon of the women Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka
and Israel. Secondly, there is the very large increase in the
number of women who work, especially married women and mothers of children. More
diffusely there ate the increasingly numerous convergences between male and
female behaviour: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure,
the sharing if domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of
hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities. Everyone
carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural
conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons
than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as
theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people's sense
of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the
two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and
to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous
initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a
club.
单选题
The phrase "men's sureness of their sex role" in the second line, first
paragraph suggests that they ______.
A. are confident in their ability to charm women
B. take the initiative in courtship
C. have a clear idea of what is considered "manly"
D. tend to be more immoral than women are
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】细节题。此题不难，考查第一段“men's sureness of their sex role”的理解，这一段都是要有have a clear idea of what is considered “manly”，所谓的男子气概要有情绪的概念。
单选题
The third paragraph does NOT claim that men ______.
A. prevent women from taking up certain professions
B. secretly admire women's intellect and resolution
C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business
D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies
单选题
The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph
A. is based in the study of archaeology
B. illustrates how people expect men to behave
C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke
D. proves that the man, not women, should be the wooer
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】此题为推理题。本题难度不大，在最后一段中，居住洞穴的男人普遍的观点是什么，看原文，“In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door...”就是说明人们期望男子有哪些行为，外出打猎，捕鱼，并击退邻近部落等等都是男人视之当然的事情。所以，据此可以选出B答。