单选题

One of the most disturbing statistics I've read for a long time was published this week. The Work Foundation claims that job satisfaction in this country has fallen alarmingly. Women's satisfaction level has fallen from 51 percent in 1992 to 29 percent today; men's has fallen from 35 percent to 20. The reason — the long-hours culture and job insecurity.
For my father's generation, work was something that had to be endured so that real life could be maintained. But my generation has been gulled into thinking that work is real life, Most work is not satisfying. Most work stinks. Most work, however well paid, is meaningless and dull. But somehow we've been convinced that work provides self-fulfillment.
Before Mrs Thatcher, we had a famous British attitude to work — the less we did the better. Thatcher introduced the idea that, in a world where identity was so fragile, you could become real through work, through long hours and assiduous consumption, in the small amount of time you had been left after clocking off. Now Blair carries on the crusade, I've got one of the best jobs in the world — sitting in an office by myself all day trying to make up something that someone somewhere will be interested in. But I'd rather be stretched out in front of the TV, or in bed, or playing tennis, or doing just about anything else.
Much of feminist thought has been about getting what men have traditionally had without examining the underlying assumption of whether it was worth having. Feminism never ended up with a life built around creative leisure, instead, women of talent and drive threw themselves into the labour pool, believing that work and its attendant income and power would affect the change of life and consciousness that would liberate them.
Can anything be done? Only if we're willing to change the way we've been tricked into thinking. Most people now measure their lives primarily in units of currency — money saved and spent. I have a friend who'll travel halfway across London for a shoe sale, without factoring in how much of her precious time has been spent travelling. The most important truth I know is that all we ever own is the time we were given on this earth. We need to seize it back. Now the future has arrived, and we have the means to do it — we just don't have the imagination.

单选题 Before the British were persuaded to realize themselves through hard work,______.

单选题 The sentence "Now Blair carries on the crusade…" (para.3) could be best illustrated by which of the following statements?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 这是道细节加上下文理解题。这个题目是考carry on的意思，这个词组的意思是继续某一件事情，或者继续做一件事情。“Now Blair carries on the crusade, I've got one of the best jobs in the world — sitting in an office by myself all day trying to make up something that someone somewhere will be interested in.”(现在布莱尔继续了这个十字征军。)所以在本文中指的是布莱尔延续了撒切尔夫人的做法，故选A。

单选题 What is the author's attitude towards women's joining the workforce?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 这道题主要考查的是学生对句子的理解能力。解题句是“Much of feminist thought has been about getting what men have traditionally had without examining the underlying assumption of whether it was worth having. Feminism never ended up with a life built around creative leisure, instead, women of talent and drive threw themselves into the labour pool，believing that work and its attendant income and power would affect the change of life and consciousness that would liberate them.”(很多女权主义者认为他们要像传统中的男人那样去做事，而不会看看这样做是否值得。女权主义从来没有这样一种充满创造性的业余生活，相反，那些有才华的人全身心地投入到工作中，认为工作和他们客观的收入还有权力，可以改变他们的生活，并认为这样可以解放他们。)从这段话可以看出作者并不是很支持。故选B。

单选题 What is the purpose of the author in mentioning her friend who travelled halfway across London for a shoe sale?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 这个题目主要考查的是学生对句子的理解能力。举例子是为了说明一个问题，即让大家享受生活，这从文中最后一段的“Most people now measure their lives primarily in units of currency — money saved and spent. I have a friend who'll travel halfway across London for a shoe sale, without factoring in how much of her precious time has been spent travelling. The most important truth I know is that all we ever own is the time we were given on this earth. We need to seize it back.”这段话的主旨是让大家要珍惜时间，文中有一句话说我们唯一拥有的就是赋予我们的宝贵的时间，所以文中举朋友的例子也是为了提醒大家要珍惜宝贵的时间，因为文中说她的朋友不知道自己在这个过程中花掉了多少时间在路途上。故选D。

单选题 Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 这是道主旨题。主旨题需要考生通读整篇文章，可以通过浏览或者快速阅读看出本篇文章主要讲什么内容。本题考查的就是本文的主旨，全篇都是围绕这个中心。整篇文章围绕着一个主题就是为何大家要那么拼命地工作，在这样拼命工作时我们失去了很多东西，所以这个题目应该选择第一个选项“这样拼命地工作有什么好处?”故选A。