英语四级考试试题及答案11

　　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.

　　31. The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is _________________.

　　A) fundamental to a sound democracy

　　B) not pertinent to healthy family life

　　C) responsible for Momism

　　D) what we have almost given up

　　32. The danger in the sharing of household tasks by the mother and the father is that ___________.

　　A) the role of the father may become an inferior one’

　　B) the role of the mother may become an inferior one

　　C) C) the children will grow up believing that life is a battle of sexes

　　D) sharing leads to constant arguing

　　33. The author states that bringing up children ________________.

　　A) is mainly the mother’s job

　　B) belongs among the duties of the father

　　C) is the job of schools and churches

　　D) involves a partnership of equals

　　34. According to the author, the father’s role in the home is ____________________.

　　A) minor because he is an ineffectual parent

　　B) irrelevant to the healthy development of the child

　　C) pertinent to the healthy development of the child

　　D) identical to the role of the child’s mother

　　35. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?

　　A) A healthy, co-operative family is a basic ingredient of a healthy society.

　　B) Men are basically opposed to sharing household chores.

　　C) Division of household responsibilities is workable only in theory.

　　D) A woman’s place in the home – now as always.

　　参考答案：

　　31. A) 本题考察对文章主题的理解。文章的最后一段的后半句是本文的主题句，它明确说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，此处的pertinent与题干中的fundamental在此处的意思是一样的。

　　32. A) 本题较难，表面是个细节题，但实际是推断题。有两处线索：第一处是第二段的第一句话，该句承接第一段中谈论的sharing household，指出如果过分了的话，就会导致男人被认为较不重要，即是选项A)的意思。第二处线索是第三段的倒数第二句话中“… that he does have a place in it”。

　　33. D) 线索见第三段的第二句话What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals.

　　34. C)本题的线索同31题。

　　35. A) 本题除了用排除法做以外，仍然考的是主题句。最后一句中的a healthy democracy是从社会的角度来讲的。