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  3. The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on women’s lives. Marxists had traditionally believed tha

The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on women’s lives. Marxists had traditionally believed tha

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问题     The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on women’s lives. Marxists had traditionally believed that both capitalism and the middle-class husbands exploited women. The Russian Revolution of 1917 immediately proclaimed complete equality of rights for women. In the 1920s divorce and abortion were made easily available, and women were urged to work outside the home and liberate themselves sexually. After Stalin came to power, sexual and familial liberation was played down, and the most lasting changes for women involved work and education.
    These changes were truly revolutionary. Young women were constantly told that they had to be equal to men, that they could and should do everything men could do. Peasant women in Russia had long experienced the equality of backbreaking physical labor in the countryside, and they continued to enjoy that equality on collective farms. With the advent of the five-year-plans, millions of women also began to toil in factories and in heavy construction, building dams, roads and steel mills in summer heat and winter frost. Most of the opportunities open to men through education were also open to women. Determined women pursued their studies and entered the ranks of the better-paid specialists in industry and science. Medicine practically became a woman’s profession. By 1950, 75 percent of doctors in the Soviet Union were women.
    Thus Stalinist society gave woman great opportunities but demanded great sacrifices as well. The vast majority of women simply had to work outside the home. Wages were so law that it was almost impossible for a family or couple to live only on the husband’s earnings. Moreover, the full-time working woman had a heavy burden of household tasks in her off hours, for most Soviet men in the 1930s still considered the home and the children the woman’s responsibility. Men continued to monopolize the best jobs. Finally, rapid change and economic hardship led to many broken families, creating further physical, emotional, and mental strains for women. In any event, the often-neglected human resource of women was mobilized in Stalinist society.
The main idea of this passage is that women in Stalinist society______.
选项 A、had economic opportunities that had never been available before
B、had difficulty balancing their work and family responsibilities
C、had new opportunities but also many hardships
D、moved quickly into the highest levels of government
答案C
解析 主旨题。文章第一段作者提出话题，苏联的根本性社会变革对女性的生活产生了深刻的影响。第二段作者描述了这些变化：女性获得了参与各种工作和受教育的同等机会，甚至进入了一些专业领域。第三段作者指出，女性在获得机会的同时也不得不付出巨大的代价。因此，纵观全文，作者既写到了变革带给女性的机会，也提到了她们面对的困难。故正确答案为C项。
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