单选题 Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharingin tasks and in decision makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boys and girls learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by co-operation rather than by the "battle of sexes".
If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important-and that has happened in some cases-we are as badly off as before, only in the reverse.
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of "Momism"- but we don't want to exchange it for a "new Popism". What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit-nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.

单选题 The best title for this passage would be ______.

A. Opinion on Equality Between the Sexes in a Family
B. The Ideal of Equal Rights and Equal Responsibilities in the American Family
C. American Men and Women
D. How to Bring up Children

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文是围绕“在家庭中男女应该平等，共同承担家务、共同决策”这一中心思想展开的，所以最佳题目是“对家庭男女平等的看法”，故A)为正确答案。 [避错指导] 选项B)“美国家庭中平等权利与责任的理念”和C)“美国的男性和女性”作为本文题目，范围太宽；D)“如何抚养孩子”表达的信息是文章的细节，不足以概括全文的话题，故排除。

单选题 According to the passage, bringing up children ______.

A. is mainly the mother's duty
B. belongs among the duties of the father
C. is the job of schools and churches
D. involves a partnership of equals

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。根据题干关键词bringing up children可定位到第三段第三句what we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. 可知抚养孩子需要双方平等的协作精神，故D)为正确答案。 [避错指导] 选项A)“主要是母亲的责任”和B)“抚养孩子是父亲的职责范围”均与文章内容矛盾，是两个个极端；C)“是学校和教堂的责任”在文中没有文字依据。

单选题 People who specialize in family problems ______.

A. reaffirm the belief that a woman's place is in the home
B. would re-establish the father as the autocratic ruler of the family
C. have concluded that children who break the law today are the result of Momism
D. are becoming more aware of the importance of the father's role in the family

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。依据题干关键词specialize，family定位到文章第三段第四句There are signs that…and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play…可知家庭问题研究专家越来越意识到父亲角色的重要性，故D)为正确答案。 [避错指导] 文章第三段提到现在不再说妇女的地位只局限在家中，故A)“重新确认妇女的地位限于家庭”错误；该段第二句提到虽然不喜欢“妈妈主义”，但也不想要“新爸爸主义”，故B)“重新确立父亲在家庭中的主导地位”错误；C)“得出结论那些违法的孩子是‘妈妈主义’的产物”在文中未提及。

单选题 According to the passage, the father's role in the home is ______.

A. identical to the role of the child's mother
B. minor because he is an ineffectual parent
C. relevant to the healthy development of the child
D. irrelevant to the healthy development of the child

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。根据题干关键词father's role, in the home可定位到第三段最后两句：We are beginning, however, to analyze man's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it…Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child. 可知父亲在家庭中的位置与孩子的健康成长不无关系。因此C)为正确答案。 [避错指导] 文章旨在强调父母双方都拥有平等的权利和地位，而不是说他们的角色是完全一样的，同时文章一直在强调父亲的角色的重要性，故选项A)“与母亲在家的角色完全一样”，B)“(作用)很小，因为作为父母一方作用不大”和D)“与孩子的健康成长无关”均排除。

单选题 From the passage, it can be concluded that the solution to family problems ______.

A. is similar in all families
B. is best left in the hands of social workers
C. can be reached by following ironclad rules
D. needs to be reached by ways unique to each family

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。根据题干关键词the solution，family problems定位到文章最后一句…each family needs to work out its OWn ways for solving its own problems. 可知作者看来每个家庭的问题各不相同，解决方法也就不同。故正确答案为D)。 [避错指导] A)“对于所有家庭都是一样的”与文中信息矛盾；B)“应该留给社会工作者”错误，因为社会工作者在第三段提出时是为了说明他们开始关注父亲在家庭中的角色，而不是要依赖他们解决家庭问题；最后一段说很难在家庭中制定规则，故C)“可以通过制定严格的规则实现”错误。