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Today men are facing new expectations and new choices about their commitments to society, family, and work. No longer what goals they should pursue, much less how they should pursue them, many men have found themselves in a no-man's land, searching for new meanings and definitions of maturity. In interviews I conducted with 138 men from diverse social and economic background. 36 percent defined their family and work commitments in terms of primary breadwinning, and 30 percent chose to eschew parenthood or to avoid involvement with children they had brought into the world.
However, about 33 percent had moved toward more rather than less family involvement over the course of their lives. These men develop an outlook on parenthood that included caretaking as well as economic support. They represent a growing group of fathers, most of whom arc married to work-committed women and have an egalitarian approach toward marriage and family commitments. Such men ,whom I call "involved fathers", are demonstrating a capacity, a willingness, and an enthusiasm for parenting not seen in their fathers' and grandfathers' generations.
An involved lather, however, is not necessarily an equal father. Though men's domestic participation has increased in recent year, his involvement has not kept in pace with women's rapidly rising commitment to paid employment. A persistent" housework gap" has left most women with more work and less leisure time than their male counterparts.
It may be tempting to focus on the fact that, even among men who support equality, their involvement as fathers remains a far distance from what most women want and most children need. Yet it is also important to acknowledge how far and how fast many men have moved toward a pattern that not long ago virtually all men considered anathema. One recent survey found that 73 percent of a group of randomly selected fathers agreed that "their families are the most important facet of their lives"; 87 percent agreed that "dad is as vital as mom in raising kids. "The cballenge is to create the social and cultural arrangements that would enable men to uphold these beliefs more easily.

单选题 Paragraph 1 implies that______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】由题干可定位到第一段，第二句说今天的男人所面临的问题不再是他们应该追求什么目标，也不是他们应如何去追求，而是许多男人们仿佛进入无人地带(不确定的、含义含糊的领域)，需要寻找成熟男人的新的意义和定义，因此选[A]男人们对担当何种角色不知所措。其它三个选项，[B]男人们意识到他们进入了一个以前没人涉足的地方，这是对no man's land的曲解，[C]男人们想改变成熟男人的含义和定义，这是时代和社会的要求，并非男人们自身的愿望，[D]男人们面临来自社会的巨大压力，文中未提及。

单选题 Involved fathers are those who______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】由involved father可定位到第二段第三句，意思是，介入家庭的父亲人数越来越多，妻子大部分有工作，他们对婚姻和家务具有平等的观念，因此选[D]。[A]与传统的父亲毫无相同之处，从本段最后一句可以看出，involved father表现出做父亲的能力、意愿和热情在父辈和祖父辈身上看不到，但并不意味着完全有别于父辈；[B]做一个父亲应该做的事，与原文不符，一个父亲应该做什么的观念过去和现在不一样；[C]沿着父辈和祖父辈的脚印走，也即沿袭父辈的传统，与原文意思相悖。

单选题 Compared with his wife, an involved father______.

单选题 The word" anathema" ( Line 4, Para. 4) most probably means______.

单选题 For men's belief in equal attitude toward family and parenthood, society______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】由题干beliefs定位到第四段最后一段最后一句话，意思是虽然男人对参与家庭事务的观念发生了重大变化，但作者认为重要的是要建立能够使男人坚守这些观念的社会和文化机制，因此说明全社会并没有做好这种准备，因此选[A]还没有准备好。[D]持中立态度，社会对这种观念仍然没有完全认同，并非中立，[C]持同意的观点，不是同意，而是有传统观念的阻力， [D]强烈反对，文中并未提及来自社会的强烈的反对，只是一下子感到无法认同而已。