Question

Modern society cannot well do without the contribution that women can make in the professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage of nurses and teachers, to mention only two of the occupations followed by women. It is a waste to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and be lost forever to her profession. The training, it is true, will help her in her duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful. Many factories and shops, too, are largely staffed by women, many of them married. While here the question of training is not so important, industry and trade would be seriously short of staff if married women did not work.

We can see then that there are good reasons for regarding it as desirable that married women should have some occupation outside the home. However, there are serious objections. Schools do not keep children occupied the whole day and school holidays are long. The mother’s working day will almost certainly end well after the school day and her holiday will not begin at the same time as her children’s. There will be therefore a period when children are not taken care of unless a substitute for the mother can be found, or unless it becomes more generally possible for women to work part-time. There seem to be some grounds for believing that there is more bad behavior among the children of working mothers than among those of mothers who stay at home, but more evidence is required before we can be certain of this. What we can be certain of, however, is that many more will continue to do so.

1.According to the writer, women nurses and teachers ought to carry on their occupation after marriage because______.

  A. they are not allowed to give up their jobs          

B. their training should not be wasted

  C. they want to make a living by themselves        

D. they must still improve themselves as mothers

2.According to the writer, one possible way for the children of working mothers to be attended to is that________.

   A. schools keep children occupied the whole day   

B. their mothers change their occupation

   C. their mothers do not work full time            

D. their mothers should stay at home

3.The clause “unless a substitute for the mother can be found” means_______.

   A. if someone takes over the mother’s occupation 

B. if no mother works all day

   C. if no one takes care of the children for the mother

   D. if someone takes care of the children for the mother

4.The writer believes that bad behavior among the children of mothers who do not work is _________ among the children of working mothers.

   A. possibly less than   B. about the same as      

C. a little greater than   D. certainly more than

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.A

【解析】本文講述了已婚婦女尤其是媽媽在外工作對社會和家庭帶來的影響。

1.B細節理解題。從第一段It is a waste to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and be lost forever to her profession．可以看出，作者認為受過大量教育的婦女只工作一兩年就呆在家里帶孩子是一種浪費。

2.C細節理解題。從第二段．．．unless it becomes more generally possible for women to work part．time．一句可以看出作者認為解決母親上班和照看孩子這兩者矛盾的一個可行性辦法是讓這些婦女部分時間工作。

3.C 句意理解題。因為unless=if not，所以if從句里應用否定式，substitute意為“替代者”，即替母親照看孩子的人，所以正確答案選C。

4.A 細節推斷題。從第二段There seem to be some grounds for believing that there is more bad behavior among the children of working mothers than among those of mother8 who stay at home一句看，作者認為似乎有理由相信母親上班的孩子的不良習慣比那些母親不上班的孩子的不良習慣要多，由此反推，母親不上班的孩子比那些母親上班的孩子的不良習慣要少，即選項A。