Question

【題目】Sheila Green was married 12 years ago.【1】When her youngest child reached school age, she decided to go back to work.【2】Her salary could make a difference between a financial struggle and a secure financial situation for her family. Sheila also felt bored and frustrated in her role as a homemaker and wanted to be more involved in life outside her home.

However, Sheila was worried about her children’s adjustment to this new situation. She arranged for them to go to stay with a woman nearby after school each afternoon.【3】While a problem seemed to appear between Sheila and her husband Sandy. When Sheila was at home all day, she was able to clean the house, go grocery shopping, wash the clothes, take care of the children and cook two or three meals each day.【4】

Now the same things need to be done, but Sheila has only evenings and early mornings to do them.【5】 Sandy is accustomed to sitting down and reading a paper of watching TV until dinners is ready. This is exactly what Sheila feels like doing, but someone has to fix dinner and Sandy expects it to be Sheila. Sheila is becoming very angry at Sandy’s feels that everything should be the same as it was before Sheila went back to work.

A. They seemed to be happy with the arrangement.

B. Sheila thought that she should contribute to the household finances.

C. Her oldest child studies in a school near her home.

D. Both Sheila and Sandy are tired when they arrive home at 6 p.m.

E. She has three children and lives in a suburb outside Columbus, Ohio.

F. Sheila does not only work in a company, but also the housework.

G. She was very busy, of course, but she succeeded in getting everything done.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】E

【2】B

【3】A

【4】G

【5】D

【解析】本文講述了一個叫希拉的婦女結(jié)婚后有了孩子，十多年在家照顧孩子，做家務(wù)，沒有上班。孩子大了想改善家庭的經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況，同時不想呆在家時想去參與外面的生活。于是開班上班了，結(jié)果在生活與工作中出現(xiàn)了一點家庭的不合諧。

【1】E

考查對上下文的理解與推理判斷能力。上一句是說希拉12年前結(jié)的婚，后一句說她最小的孩子到了上學(xué)的年齡�？芍�E符合。

【2】B

考查對上下文的理解與推理判斷能力。從本的空后的內(nèi)容：“她的薪水可以使家庭財務(wù)狀況有所不同�！蓖茢喑鏊龥Q定回去工作就是希拉認(rèn)為她應(yīng)該為家庭經(jīng)濟(jì)貢獻(xiàn)自己的一份力量。故B符合題意。

【3】A

考查對上下文的理解與推理判斷能力。句意：她安排孩子每天放學(xué)后去附近和一個女人呆在一起，她們似乎對這個安排很滿意，而希拉和她的丈夫桑迪之間似乎出現(xiàn)了一個問題。從后面的轉(zhuǎn)折連詞可知前后意思是相反的。希拉和丈夫有問題，自然與之相反的是孩子們沒問題。故A符合。

【4】G

考查對上下文的理解與推理判斷能力。本小題前面內(nèi)容講希拉以前不上班在家時，所有家務(wù)活都能做完做好。故G符合。

【5】D

考查對上下文的理解與推理判斷能力。“現(xiàn)在上班了同樣的事情需要做，但希拉只有晚上和清晨做這些事情�！笨芍�希拉上班后回家就好累了，回家還要做家務(wù)，所以才會與丈夫發(fā)生矛盾。故選D。