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The traditional belief that a woman’s place is in the home and that a woman ought not to go out to work can hardly be reasonably

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问题     The traditional belief that a woman’s place is in the home and that a woman ought not to go out to work can hardly be reasonably maintained (维持) in present conditions (条件). It is said that it is a woman’s task to care for the children, but families today tend to(倾向于) be small and with a year or two between children. Thus a woman’s whole period of child-bearing may be within five years and her role as chief educator of her children soon stops. Thus, even if we agree that a woman should stay at home to look after her children before they are of school age, for many women, this period would extend (延续) only for about ten years.
    It might be argued (争议) that the house-proud woman would still find plenty to do about the home. That may be so, but it is certainly no longer necessary for a woman to spend her whole life cooking, cleaning, mending and sewing. Washing machines take the drudgery (单调乏味的工作) out of laundry, the latest models being entirely automatic (自动化的) and able to wash and dry a large quantity of clothes in a few minutes. Refrigerators (冰箱) have made it possible to store food for long periods. Shopping, instead of being a daily task, can be completed in one day a week.
    Apart from women’s own happiness, the needs of the community must be considered. Modern society cannot do well without the contribution (贡献) that women can make in the professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage(短缺) of nurses and teachers. It is extremely wasteful to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and he lost forever to her profession. The training, it is true, will help her in her duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful.  Many factories and shops, too, are largely staffed(任职) by women, many of them married. While here the question of training is not so important, industry and trade would be seriously short of staff if married women did not work.
A good title for the passage is______.
选项 A、Modern Age Has Changed Women’s Place in Society
B、Modern Technology Liberates Women
C、The Labour Division Helps Women
D、A Change of Women’s Position
答案A
解析 这一小题要求给出文章的题目，是考查学生对文章主旨大意的把握。考生需对全文所提供的信息加以综合整理，才能选出正确答案。全文的第一段论述了现代社会的变化使妇女生儿育女的时间大大缩短，因而为她们外出工作提供了可能性。第二段说明了由于家庭电器的使用和生活的便利，使妇女有可能从繁重的家务劳动中解放出来。第三段从社会的角度阐述了妇女对社会发展所作的不可或缺的贡献。综观全文，A选项Modem Age Has Changed Women’s Place in Society为最佳答案。D选项A Change of Women’s Position“妇女地位的变化”没有反映出现代社会的变化所起的作用，因此不够确切。B选项Modem Technology Liberates Women的意思是：“现代科技解放了妇女”，这只是第二段的段意。C选项The Labour Division Helps Women的意思是：“劳动部门给予妇女帮助”，原文中并未提及此意，因而不选。
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