单选题   The Alzheimer's Association and the National Alliance for Caregiving estimate that men make up nearly 40 percent of family care providers now, up from 19 percent in a 1996 study by the Alzheimer's Association. About 17 million men are caring for an adult. Women still provide the bulk of family care, especially intimate tasks like bathing and dressing. Many complain that their brothers are treated like heroes just for showing up. But with smaller families and more women working full-time, many men have no choice but to take on roles that would have been alien to their fathers.
    Often they are overshadowed by their female counterparts and faced with employers, friends, support organizations and sometimes even parents who view caregiving as an essentially female role. Male caregivers are more likely to say they feel unprepared for the role and become socially isolated, and less likely to ask for help. 'Isolation affects women as well, but men tend to have fewer lifeline. They are less likely to have friends going through similar experiences, and depend more on their jobs for daily human contact,' Dr. Donna Wagner, the director of gerontology (老年学) at Towson University and one of the few researchers who has studied sons as caregivers, said.
    In past generations, men might have pointed to their accomplishments as breadwinners or fathers. Now, some men say they worry about the conflict between caring for their parents and these other roles. In a 2003 study at three Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Donna Wagner found that men were less likely to use employee-assistance programs for caregivers because they feared it would be held against them. 'Even though the company has endorsed the program, your supervisors may have a different opinion,' Dr. Wagner said. Matt Kassin, 51, worked for a large company with very generous benefits, and his employer had been understanding. But he was reluctant to talk about his caregiving because he thought 'when they hire a male, they expect him to be 100 percent focused.' And he didn't want to appear to be someone who had distractions that detracted (破坏) from performance.
    For many men, the new role means giving up their self-image as experts, said Louis Colbert, director of the office of services for the aging in Delaware County, Pa., who has shared care of his 84-year-old mother with his siblings since her Alzheimer's made it necessary. Once a year, Mr. Colbert organizes a get-together for male caregivers. The concerns they raise, he said, are different from those of women in support groups. 'Very clearly, they said they wanted their role as caregivers validated, because in our society, as a whole, men as caregivers have been invisible,' he said.
单选题     What can we know about men according to the Alzheimer's Association and the National Alliance for Caregiving?
 
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据题干中的the Alzheimer's Association and the National Alliance for Caregiving定位到首段首句。 推理判断题。根据定位句可知，男性护理人员从1996年的19%增加到了现在的40%。由此可以推断，更多的男性参与到家庭护理的行列之中。因此，答案为A。
单选题     Why do men tend to feel more stressed and socially isolated according to Donna Wagner?
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据题干中的socially isolated定位到第二段第二至四句。 推理判断题。第二段指出，男性很少有与自己经历类似的朋友，人际交往也只限于工作场所。由此可以推断，他们有被隔离的感觉主要是因为他们几乎找不到可以与他们交流、分享经历的人，因此答案为C。
单选题     Donna Wagner's solution to the conflict between caring for parents and other social roles is to ______.
 
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据题干中的Donna Wagner's solution和conflict定位到第三段第二、三句。 推理判断题。定位句指出，Donna Wagner博士通过研究发现，男性很少利用员工援助项目，由此推断她的建议应该是鼓励男性利用员工援助项目来解决护理父母和扮演其他社会角色之间的矛盾，因此答案为A。
单选题     Why was Matt Kassin unwilling to talk about his caregiving with his employer?
 
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】根据题干中的Matt Kassin定位到第三段最后三句。 推理判断题。根据定位句可知，Kassin认为公司雇用他是希望他能专心工作，他不希望让别人觉得自己有分心的事情影响他在工作上的表现。因此，答案为D。
单选题     What might be the concerns of male caregivers according to Louis Colbert?
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据题干中的concerns和Louis Colbert定位到末段最后两句。 细节辨认题。定位句指出，Louis Colbert发现，男性护理者有不同于女性的担忧，他们的工作被人们忽视，因此他们希望自己作为护理者的角色能得到认同。因此，答案为C。