Passage 6
“In every known human society the male’s needs for achievements can be recognized…In a great number of human societies men’s sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat.”
This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished.
If talk and print are considered, it would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defenses which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion from types of occupation and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women’s pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of running the world.
There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of men’s status. In the first place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel.
Secondly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who work, especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the increasingly numerous convergences between male and female behavior: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities.
Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people’s sense of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.
The phrase “men’s sureness of their sex role” in the first paragraph suggests that they ________.
文章第一段提到“...men’s sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right，or ability，to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice.”。由此可知，男人们很清楚自己的“大男人”的角色，并 且通过一些方式来把握和巩固这个地位。故选C。
The third paragraph does NOT claim that men ________.
文章第三段提到男性比女性有优势，有些职业、团体大多只有男性才能进入。并未提及他们暗地 里赞美女性的智慧和决心，他们反而质疑女性是否真正拥有在事业上获得成功的智慧和决心。故选B。
The third paragraph ________.
文章第三段主要提到了男性与女性之间的差别，这与文章第一段Margaret Mead提到的“Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat”意 思相近。故选A。
At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to ________.
文章最后一段第一句提到“Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life.”每个人心里都有一个关于原始的或自然的人类生活状况的概念。最后一句生 动形象地举例说到“Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.”。比如 风流就完完全全是男性的权利，他们通过俱乐部求爱。故选C。
The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph ________.
文章的最后一段作者认为那种原始社会中男人打猎、钓鱼或是去打仗而女人照顾家的模式是“an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people’s sense of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes”。也就是说人们希望男人怎么做。故选B。