单选题 At a party for Ms. magazine"s 40th birthday, the Canadian writer Ann Dowsett Johnston waited for an audience with Gloria Steinem, hoping to cull wisdom for her research on women and alcohol. "Alcohol?" Steinem said to Johnston, looking "dismissive." "Alcohol is not a women"s issue."
Steinem may have been hasty. We know that many women report drinking more often in recent decades, that they are drinking more when they do, and that the physiological impact and social meaning of it all is different for women than for men. Women are the engine of growth for the American wine market and are being arrested for drunken driving more often than before. How much alarm should be invested in those observations is up for debate in both Johnston"s book, Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol , and Her Best-Kept Secret: Why Women Drink—and How They Can Regain Control , by the American journalist Gabrielle Glaser, the second of which makes the more pointed case.
Johnston turns in part to gauzy memory to make the case that female alcohol consumption is the negative byproduct of modem complexities and the pressure for women to be "perfect." "I don"t remember my grandmothers suffering from this syndrome," she asserts. "Women who raised families during the Depression, who baked and gardened and read well; who were fundamentally happy, and felt no pressure to look like stick figures." Well. Depression-era women"s lives were more circumscribed and less weighted with the pretext of "choice," sure. But were these women, all in all, "fundamentally happy"? And were they less eager for a fix when they could get it?
A temptation for many trend journalists and headline writers is to see women"s higher rates of alcohol abuse and dependency as the uneasy consequence of female liberation. Glaser acknowledges that alcohol provides a form of self-medication during a time of dizzying changes in women"s lives, but she is skeptical of the notion that alcohol abuse is the price of too much liberation. Her concise assessment: "Women are drinking more because they can." Indeed, whereas Johnston often casts women as the victims of institutions, Glaser seems more interested in asking why institutions aren"t serving women"s needs better. Either way, what"s at stake is how we respond to the byproducts of equality that fit less comfortably on a placard.

单选题 What can we infer from the first sentence in Paragraph 2?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题
infer, first sentence, Paragraph 2
根据题干关键词定位到第二段。首句的关键词是hasty，表示“轻率的，草率的；匆忙的”，整句话句意为“斯泰纳姆的判断可能有点轻率”。而斯泰纳姆的判断是第一段末句的“酒精跟女人无关”，故D项“女人和酒精有关”为正确答案。A项“斯泰纳姆是正确的”和B项“斯泰纳姆是反应快的”与文意相反。C项“女人喝得太快”原文没有提及，是对hasty的误解。

单选题 According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is NOT true of women?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题
Pargagraph 2, NOT true, women
根据题干关键词定位到第二段。第二句的后一个分句意为“而且女人喝酒的生理影响和社会意义跟男人喝酒不同”，该句的主语是drinking，不是women，故C项不符合文意，因此为正确答案。A项中的punished与第三句中的arrested意思一致。第二句的前一个分句意为“我们知道，近几十年很多女人说自己喝酒更频繁，喝得也更多”，B项中的drink mote, quantity, frequency是文中drinking more often和drinking more的同义替换，故B项符合文意。D项中的promote sales与第三句中的engine of growth意思一致。

单选题 Johnston believes that women are drinking NOT because of ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题
Johnston, women are drinking, NOT because of
根据题干关键词定位到第三段。首句句意为“约翰斯顿认为，女人饮酒是现代社会复杂性以及想做‘完美’女人的压力带来的负面结果”，句中的byproduct of后面的内容，就是题干中because of要找的内容。D项与文中的modern complexities相符，C项的stress与文中的pressure是同义替换，B项与文中的perfect相符，三项均与题干中的NOT不符，均排除。A项来自女人饮酒的副作用”，是对negative byproduct以及整句话的误解，故为正确答案。

单选题 The author"s attitude towards Johnston"s opinion about why women drink is ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 态度题
The author"s attitude, Johnston"s opinion, why women drink
根据题干关键词定位到第三段。从第二句开始，引号的部分为约翰斯顿对于女人喝酒原因的进一步解释。之后作者表达自己的观点，以Well引领下文。再结合接下来的转折词But以及后面连续的两个疑问句可以推断出，作者是不相信的，对约翰斯顿的观点表示怀疑的，故B项“怀疑的”为正确答案。A项“相信的”和D项“辩护的”与文意相反。C项“不偏不倚的”与文意不符，也排除。

单选题 We may learn from the last paragraph that Glaser ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题
learn, last paragraph, Glaser
根据题干关键词定位到第四段。该段中引号里的话是格拉泽的观点，即“女人们现在喝更多酒是因为她们能喝更多”，故A“认为女人酒量大”为正确答案。D项“认为酒精是时代巨变的动力”与该段第二句前一个分句“酒精在女性生活发生巨变的时代能起到某种自我医疗的作用”不符，故排除。B项“把酗酒看作是解放的后果”与第二句后一个分句“她不认为酗酒是女性过于解放的代价”，文中的关键词是skeptical。C项“认为体制对女人有危害”是约翰斯顿的观点，不是格拉泽的观点，故排除。