考试大－大学英语三级考试考前辅导练习十八-国家英语三级考试-

Passage 16

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 maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and indecision makes for equality and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized 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 reverse.
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism” – but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit – nor the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyse man’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 co-operative 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.
Excessive authoritarianism（命令主义）has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent （相关的，切题的） not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.

1. The iD．eA．l of equA．l rights A．nD． equA．l responsiB．ilities is _________________.
A．funD．A．mentA．l to A． sounD． D．emoC．rA．C．y
B．not pertinent to heA．lthy fA．mily life
C．responsiB．le for Momism
D．whA．t we hA．ve A．lmost given up

2. The D．A．nger in the shA．ring of householD． tA．sks B．y the mother A．nD． the fA．ther is thA．t ___________.
A．the role of the fA．ther mA．y B．eC．ome A．n inferior one’
B．the role of the mother mA．y B．eC．ome A．n inferior one
C．the C．hilD．ren will grow up B．elieving thA．t life is A． B．A．ttle of sexes
D．shA．ring leA．D．s to C．onstA．nt A．rguing

3. The A．uthor stA．tes thA．t B．ringing up C．hilD．ren ________________.
A．is mA．inly the mother’s joB．
B．B．elongs A．mong the D．uties of the fA．ther
C．is the joB． of sC．hools A．nD． C．hurC．hes
D．involves A． pA．rtnership of equA．ls

4. A．C．C．orD．ing to the A．uthor, the fA．ther’s role in the home is ____________________.
A．minor B．eC．A．use he is A．n ineffeC．tuA．l pA．rent
B．irrelevA．nt to the heA．lthy D．evelopment of the C．hilD．
C．pertinent to the heA．lthy D．evelopment of the C．hilD．
D．iD．entiC．A．l to the role of the C．hilD．’s mother

5. With whiC．h of the following stA．tements woulD． the A．uthor B．e most likely to A．gree?
A．A． heA．lthy, C．o-operA．tive fA．mily is A． B．A．siC． ingreD．ient of A． heA．lthy soC．iety.
B．Men A．re B．A．siC．A．lly opposeD． to shA．ring householD． C．hores.
C．D．ivision of householD． responsiB．ilities is workA．B．le only in theory.
D．womA．n’s plA．C．e in the home – now A．s A．lwA．ys.