Writing (40 minutes)
You should write your responses to both parts on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Part B
Read the following material and write a short essay of about 150 words under the title“Should Men Be Forced by Law to Do Half the Housework”
The Austrian parliament will shortly be considering a draft law designed to compensate women after a divorce if their former husbands never helped them with the housework.
Last week the German Green Party went even further, demanding a new law to make couples share the chores fiftyfifty if both partners were at work. The German paper Bild said a third of German women did all the housework on their own.
Academics here in Britain talked of reversing what they called the“Allerednic effect”—that's “Cinderella” backwards—in which a prince marries a princess and turns her into a scullerymaid.
So is it time for men to clean up their act Or should the lawmakers leave it all well alone
Joining Laurence Zavriew for the Europewide debate are from Rome the Italian journalist Carlo di Blasio, and in the Netherlands Kerstin Schweighoefer, correspondent of the German newsmagazine focus.
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Section Ⅳ
Part B
Should Men Be Forced by Law to Do Half the Housework
It is really ridiculous that the Australian parliament was to lay down a law to force human being to do the housework. I can't reason out anything to explain that a government should meddle in the family life. In my opinion, nobody can divide equally the housework into two parts and tell what a man or a woman should do in a family.
Husband and Wife, enjoying the same right in a family, give their deep seated love to each other. On the one hand, Wife has no obligation to shoulder the heavy burden of all the housework. Neither does Husband. On the other hand, if they deal with the housework as the businessman does in a market, the family will come to its end. When one is at home, the other is still working outside, why doesn't he or she prepare everything for him or her and give him or her a sense of having a family Why not comfort him or her if he or she comes back exhaustedly Why do you just force Husband to do half Why not the whole if he is free If he loves his wife, is it necessary to force himTherefore, it is not reasonable for any institution to interfere in a private life. It is not necessary to force Husband to do half of housework.
[分析]
Part B
这是一个材料作文，考生可以使用材料中的语言，但不宜过多。可以使用其中的语言观点，但只是一个辅助的部分，不能占有重要的位置，可以用它们来支持说明自己的观点。第一段考生应该清楚明白地说明自己的观点：“... nobody can divide equally the housework into two parts and tell what a man or a woman should do in a family”。结尾做总结时点题，“It is not necessary to force Husband to do half of housework”。
