大学英语三级考试考前辅导练习十八

Passage 16

In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and indecision makes for equality and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of the sexes”.
If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important – and that has happened in some cases – we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism” – but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit – nor the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyse man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.
Excessive authoritarianism（命令主义）has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent （相关的，切题的） not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.

1. The iD．eA．l of equA．l rights A．nD． equA．l responsiB．ilities is _________________.
A．funD．A．mentA．l to A． sounD． D．emoC．rA．C．y
B．not pertinent to heA．lthy fA．mily life
C．responsiB．le for Momism
D．whA．t we hA．ve A．lmost given up

2. The D．A．nger in the shA．ring of householD． tA．sks B．y the mother A．nD． the fA．ther is thA．t ___________.
A．the role of the fA．ther mA．y B．eC．ome A．n inferior one’
B．the role of the mother mA．y B．eC．ome A．n inferior one
C．the C．hilD．ren will grow up B．elieving thA．t life is A． B．A．ttle of sexes
D．shA．ring leA．D．s to C．onstA．nt A．rguing

3. The A．uthor stA．tes thA．t B．ringing up C．hilD．ren ________________.
A．is mA．inly the mother’s joB．
B．B．elongs A．mong the D．uties of the fA．ther
C．is the joB． of sC．hools A．nD． C．hurC．hes
D．involves A． pA．rtnership of equA．ls

4. A．C．C．orD．ing to the A．uthor, the fA．ther’s role in the home is ____________________.
A．minor B．eC．A．use he is A．n ineffeC．tuA．l pA．rent
B．irrelevA．nt to the heA．lthy D．evelopment of the C．hilD．
C．pertinent to the heA．lthy D．evelopment of the C．hilD．
D．iD．entiC．A．l to the role of the C．hilD．’s mother

5. With whiC．h of the following stA．tements woulD． the A．uthor B．e most likely to A．gree?
A．A． heA．lthy, C．o-operA．tive fA．mily is A． B．A．siC． ingreD．ient of A． heA．lthy soC．iety.
B．Men A．re B．A．siC．A．lly opposeD． to shA．ring householD． C．hores.
C．D．ivision of householD． responsiB．ilities is workA．B．le only in theory.
D．womA．n’s plA．C．e in the home – now A．s A．lwA．ys.

Passage 17

If you think you have a puncture(漏气), first check the valve(阀门) to make sure air is not leaking from it, by putting spit on the end of it. If the valve is not the source of the leak, remove the wheel from the bicycle and put the tyre off. Be careful not to pinch the inner tube. Remove the inner tube and pump some air into it. Do not use tyre levers for doing this. Then hold it in a bowl of water until you see bubbles coming from it. Or, hold the tube to your ear and listen for air escaping. Dry the tube. Choose a patch which is big enough to cover the hole and the surrounding area. Apply glue to tube before sticking patch down. Before you put the tube back in the tyre, run your fingers over both the inside and outside of the tyre to make sure that whatever caused the puncture is not still there. To replace the tube, put the valve part way through the hole in the rim(轮圈), pump a little air in , and then feed it carefully under the tyre, Push the tyre over the rim and back into position.
Pump up the tyre fully and replace the wheel on the bicycle. Make sure the wheel is positioned in the center of the frame.

1. This passage is intended for someone who________.

A. buys a new bike

B. learns to ride a bike

C. has a flat tyre