单选题Directions:This task is the same as Task 1. The 5
questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41-45. The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of
women. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time
of a woman's life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of
the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be
likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they
were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have
been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years,
during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work.
Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest
child will be fifteen when she is forty - five and is likely to take paid work
until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is
lightened by household appliances (家用电器) and convenience foods.
This important change in women's way of life has only recently begun to have its
full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left
school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full - time job.
However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to
it. Today the school - leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after
that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at
work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more
afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new
relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife accepting a greater share
of the duties and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wife
sharing more equality in providing the money and running the home, according to
the abilities and interest of each of them.
单选题
According to the passage, around the year1990 most women married
______.
A.at about twenty-five
B.in their early fifties
C.as soon as possible after they were fifteen
D.at any age from fifteen to forty - five
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】
单选题
We are told that in an average family about1990 ______.
A.many children died before they were five
B.the youngest child would be fifteen
C.seven of eight children lived to be more than five
D.four of five children died when they were five.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
When she was over fifty, the late 19th century mother ______.
A.would expect to work until she died
B.was usually expected to take up paid employment
C.would he healthy enough to take up paid employment
D.was unlikely to find a job even if she is now likely
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
Many girls, the passage says, are now likely to ______.
A.marry so that they can get a job
B.Leave school as soon as they can
C.give up their jobs for good after they are married
D.continue working until they are going to have a baby
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ______.