It’s a man’s world, and many women don’t like it.
The women say they are treated like second-class citizens and therefore feel that their anger is justified. Women everywhere, they say, earn less money than men for the same kind of work. Women have less power in their communities than men, and in most cities and towns the political decisions are made by men. There are few women mayors or city officials. The same thing is true in labor unions, and religious groups. Even in unions where the members are almost all women, the heads of the unions are men. The presidents of almost all the big corporations in the country are men. There are few women ministers and no women priests.
Many women have been aware of these inequalities for a long time. Only recently, however, a drive for women’s rights made many more women and men, too, interested in fair treatment for women. Groups have formed to demand equal pay for equal work, changes in abortion laws, and round-the-clock day-care centers for children. Women have even started their own newspapers to fight for their cause. They have written books and marched in parades protesting their second-class place in society.
1. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Women want to make more money. B. Women hate the man’s world.
C. Women are organizing to demand their rights. D. Women’s liberation.
2. What is the important problem explained in this passage?
A. Women have joined protest groups. B. The heads of most unions are men.
C. Women are treated unfairly in their work, communities, and religious groups.
D. Women don’t like men.
3. What is the purpose of this passage?
A. To persuade women to join women’s rights groups. B. To explain why a drive for women’s rights has started.
C. To explain how it feels to be a woman in a man’s world. D. To help more women get equal treatment with men.
4. In this passage the words “second-class citizens” mean _______.
A. people who are treated as foreigners B. people who are not citizens
C. people who are not treated fairly in their life and work D. people who don’t want to be first-class citizens
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Women don’t like to be treated as second-class citizens.
B. Women make the same amount of money as men for the same kind of work.
C. Men make political decisions in most places in U. S. A.
D. Women started their own newspapers and wrote books to fight for their equal rights.
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【答案与解析】本文报道了妇女为了能与男人享受同样的权利而举行的运动。
1. C。主旨题。根据文章第3段第3句Groups have formed to demand equal pay for equal work, changes in abortion laws, and round-the-clock day-care centers for children可推知此题答案为C。
2. C。推断题。根据文章第2段所列举的内容：政治、工会及宗教等各方面妇女都没有平等的权利，可推知此题答案为C。
3. B。推断题。根据文章第3段第1句Many women have been aware of these inequalities for a long time可推知此题答案为B。
4. C。推断题。根据文章第2段的例子中可看出：妇女的地位总是低于男人，可推知此题答案为C。
5. B。推断题。选项B与文章第2段第2句意思相反，可推知此题答案为C。
