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While still catching-up to men in some spheres of modern life, women appear to be way ahead in at least one undesirable category

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问题     While still catching-up to men in some spheres of modern life, women appear to be way ahead in at least one undesirable category. Women are particularly susceptible to developing depression and anxiety disorders in response to stress compared to men, according to Dr. Yehuda, chief psychiatrist at New York’s Veteran’s Administration Hospital.
    Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affects the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions. In several of the studies, when stressed-out female rats had their ovaries(the female reproductive organs)removed, their chemical responses became equal to those of the males.
    Adding to a woman’s increased dose of stress chemicals, are her increased opportunities for stress. It’ s not necessarily that women don’t cope as well. It’ s just that they have so much more to cope with, says Dr. Yehuda. Their capacity for tolerating stress may even be greater than men’s, she observes. It’s just that they’re dealing with so many more things that they become worn out from it more visibly and sooner.
    Dr. Yehuda notes another difference between the sexes. I think that the kinds of things that women are exposed to tend to be in more of a chronic or repeated nature. Men go to war and are exposed to combat stress. Men are exposed to more acts of random physical violence. The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other family numbers, and they tend not to be one-shot deals. The wear-and-tear that comes from these longer relationships can be quite devastating.
    Adeline Alvarez married at 18 and gave birth to a son, but was determined to finish college. I struggled a lot to get the college degree. I was living in so much frustration that was my escape, to go to school, and get ahead and do better. Later her marriage ended and she became a single mother. It’s the hardest thing to take care of a teenager, have a job, pay the rent, pay the car payment, and pay the debt. I lived from paycheck to paycheck.
    Not everyone experiences the kinds of severe chronic stresses Alvarez described. But most women today are coping with a lot of obligations, with few breaks, and feeling the strain. Alvarez’s experience demonstrates the importance of finding ways to diffuse stress before it threatens your health and your ability to function.  
The sentence "I lived from paycheck to paycheck. "(Line 5, Para. 5)shows that.
选项 A、Alvarez cared about nothing but making money
B、Alvarez’s salary barely covered her household expenses
C、Alvarez got paychecks from different jobs
D、Alvarez paid practically everything by check
答案B
解析 语义判断题。文章第五段对Alvarez的个案进行了分析。本文主题是女性比男性容易受到压力的困扰，所以文章中的所有细节、举例均会成为支持这一观点成立的有利证据，所以Alvarez的案例一定是体现了Alvarez所面临的种种压力：为了改变生活状况，Alvarez想要完成大学学业，婚姻破裂后还要独立抚养孩子。她不得不从事各种工作来应付衣食住行的各项花销，但生活依然捉襟见肘。显然，A、C、D选择并没有反映出文章的主题内容，仪仅是描写了Alvarez的生活方式细节，不可能成为正确答案；B选项从Alvarez的生活窘迫来体现出她压力巨大，也是本文中Alvarez的案例存在的价值和意义所在，故为正确答案。
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