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  3. Once it was possible to【C1】______ male and female roles easily by the【C2】______ of labour. Men worked outside the home and earn

Once it was possible to【C1】______ male and female roles easily by the【C2】______ of labour. Men worked outside the home and earn

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问题      Once it was possible to【C1】______ male and female roles easily by the【C2】______  of labour. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to【C3】______ their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most of people, and there was not much opportunity for men or women to【C4】______ their roles.【C5】______  by the middle of this century, men’s and women’s roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
     In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the【C6】______ American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people【C7】______ in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women【C8】______  new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising【C9】______   with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal (公社的) homes or farms【C10】______ economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes.【C11】______  , many Americans did not value the【C12】______ male role of soldier. Some young men refused to be【C13】______ as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.
    【C14】______ numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But its influence【C15】______ to many parts of American society. Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social【C16】______ Industrial workers and business executives alike【C17】______   overtime work so that they【C18】______ more leisure time with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers【C19】______ from high paying situations to【C20】______ their profession in poorer neighborhoods.
【C4】
选项 A、change
B、alter
C、exchange
D、modify
答案C
解析 考查近义词辨析。exchange意为“相互之间的交换”，通常指两者之间的交换，这里指男女之间的角色交换；change指的是根本的变化，被改变的事物已经发生了本质的变化或是完全变了另外一副模样；alter强调的是在某一个方面的变化，不影响事物的本质；modify是指带有目的性地进行一些小的修改。根据上下文，这里的最佳选项是exchange。
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