单选题 A．reverse B．excited C．cooperative D．maintain
E．involved F．characterized G．Moderate H．analyze
I．involves J．aware K．universe L．psychiatrists
M．contain N．Excessive O．democracy
In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to 42 . The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than their parents did and to prepare more fully for participation in a world 43 by cooperation rather than by the 'battle of the sexes'.
If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in 44 .
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of 'monism'. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children 45 a partnership of equals. There are signs that 46 , psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more 47 of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit-not all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is the home, We are beginning, however, to 48 men's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
The family is a(n) 49 enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.
50 authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy 51 , but also with a healthy family.

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【正确答案】D

【答案解析】[考点] 考查动词。空格前为不定式的标志词to，因此空格处应填动词原形。该句意为“在男女角色没有那么分明而且很多家务被或多或少地分担完成的家庭中，男性优越的观念很难______。”A项reverse意为“逆转；颠倒”，H项analyze意为“分析”，M项contain意为“包含”，均不符合文意；D项maintain意为“保持，维持”，符合句意，故为答案。

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【正确答案】F

【答案解析】[考点] 考查动词。该句意为“在这样的家庭中成长的孩子…学会做好更充分的准备去融入到一个______合作而不是‘性别战争’的世界。”空格前为名词world，之后为介词by，因此空格处应填动词的过去分词与world构成被动关系。综观选项，F项characterized“以…为特征”最适合，故选F。

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【正确答案】A

【答案解析】[考点] 考查名词。空格前为介词in，因此空格处应填名词。该句意为“如果…男性的角色不如女性重要…那情况就和以前一样糟糕，只不过______。”此处的“那情况就和以前一样糟糕”指的是以前女性地位不如男性的时候，A项reverse作名词时意为“相反，反面”，符合句意，且in reverse是固定搭配，意为“反过来，反向”。

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【正确答案】I

【答案解析】[考点] 考查动词。空格所在从句缺少谓语，由全文采用的一般现在时和空格前的从句主语bringing up children可知，空格处应填第三人称单数形式的动词。结合句意“我们需要认识到，抚养孩子______平等的合作关系”和选项可知，I项involves“需要；涉及”最贴切。E项involved为动词的过去式，时态不符，故排除。

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【正确答案】L

【答案解析】[考点] 考查名词。空格后为三个表示职业的名词：psychologists、social workers和specialists，因此空格处应填和这三者并列的表示职业的名词。结合选项可知，L项psychiatrists“精神病医师”最适合。

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【正确答案】J

【答案解析】[考点] 考查形容词。空格前为比较级标志词more，再由之前的系动词becoming可知，空格处应填形容词。结合句意“…心理学家、社会工作者和研究家庭的专家越来越______男性的作用”和选项可知，J项aware“意识到的”符合句意，be aware of为固定搭配，意为“意识到”。

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【正确答案】H

【答案解析】[考点] 考查动词。空格前为不定式的标志词to，之后为名词短语men's place，因此空格处应填及物动词的原形。结合句意“然而，我们开始______男性在家中的地位并强调他们在家中确实有重要地位”和选项可知，H项analyze“分析”最适合。

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【正确答案】C

【答案解析】[考点] 考查形容词。空格前为不定冠词a(n)，之后为名词enter rise，因此空格处应填形容词、动词的过去分词或名词作定语。结合选项和句意“家庭是一个______事业”，以及上文提到的男女在家庭中应分担责任可知，C项cooperative“合作的”最适合。

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【正确答案】N

【答案解析】[考点] 考查形容词。空格位于句首，所以所填词首字母应大写。空格后为名词authoritarianism，因此空格处应填形容词、动词的过去分词或名词作定语。结合句意“______独裁会产生不愉快的结果”和选项可知，N项Excessive“过度的”最适合。G项moderate意为“适中的，适度的”，与原文不符，故排除。

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【正确答案】O

【答案解析】[考点] 考查名词。空格前为形容词healthy，之后为but also连接的with a healthy family，因此空格处应填和family并列的名词。结合句意“平等权利和责任的理想不仅和健康的______有关，也和健康的家庭有关”和选项可知，O项democracy“民主社会(或国家)”最适合。K项universe意为“宇宙，世界”，所指范围过大，且常与定冠词the连用，故排除。