单选题 For most people, life is easier and more comfortable than ever before. Convenient foods from the supermarket simplify shopping and cooking. Household appliances like the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine have taken the drudgery out of housework. Released from these household chores, many wives have found jobs outside the home. Women are achieving economic independence. Families, too, are simpler today. In America, it is not customary for parents to live with their married children. With our greater mobility, relatives have scattered, the parents retiring to Florida or Arizona and the young people, after they marry, going wherever their jobs or their parents or their interests take them. Young adult women have new freedom, too. While attending college, they often live away from home, sometimes far from their parents or their relatives. After college, they move to the city, find a job, and set up a bachelor apartment. This is the era of women's liberation. But all this freedom and affluence(富裕)have had an unforeseen and in some aspects a devastating(破坏的)effect on marriage.

单选题 In the US, families are becoming______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：细节题。由题干中的families和In the US，可将答案定位在第二段第一、二两句。这两句提到美国的家庭变得越来越简单，已婚子女一般不和父母生活在一起。所以答案为B)项smaller。

单选题 Why are women able to achieve economic independence?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：推理题。由题干关键词achieve economic independence，可知出题点在文章首段结尾处。原因题的答案一般在定位点前后的信号词处，如果没有信号词，则答案在相邻的句子上。所以答案出处应为many wives have found jobs outside the home，对该句进行改写，则得到答案项A)。干扰项B)、C)实际上是解释女性为何能外出工作，是支持论点的论据，不可能成为推理题的答案。

单选题 Hard housework was taken away by______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：细节题。由Hard housework可定位答案到首段第三句Household appliances…have taken thedrudgery out of housework。因此答案应为household appliances(家用电器)，进行改写得出正确答案为D)。

单选题 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：排除题。A)项意为“妇女解放运动使得女性有机会受教育”，来自于第三段。B)项意为“舒适的生活对美国人的婚姻有负面的影响”，符合文章尾段devastating effect的含义。C)项意为“成年人可以想去哪儿就去哪儿”，来自于第二段结尾处。D)项意为“女性喜欢单身”，与原文set up a bachelorapartment(住进单身公寓)不符，故为答案项。