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6. Chauvinism: biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause. 7. empathetic: able to share other people‘s feelings 8. aura: a distinctive and pervasive atmosphere

9. a spate of : a sudden and forceful flow of; a large amount of 10. dire: awful, dread

11. trauma: an experience that produces injury or pain 12. obsolete: something out of date, or out of use 13. reciprocal: mutual

Writing

Both men and women had their own sets of privileges and power. Both men and women had positive and negative stereotypes. For the health of future male-female relationships, we better start to curb the excesses of male-bashing. Please write an essay of 200 words to describe the stereotypes imposed on men.

Text B Why I Want a Wife

I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A WIFE. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother. Not too long ago, a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce. He had one child, who is, of course, with his ex-wife. He is obviously looking for another wife. As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly occurred to me that I, too, would like to have a wife. Why do I want a wife? I would like to go back to school so that I can become economically independent, support myself, and, if need be, support those dependent upon me. I want a wife who will work and send me to school. And while I am going to school I want a wife to take care of my children. I want a wife to keep track of the children‘s doctor and dentist appointments, and to keep track of mine, too. I want a wife to make sure my children eat properly and are kept clean. I want a wife who will wash the children‘s clothes and keep them mended. I want a wife who is a good nurturant attendant to my children, who arranges for their schooling, makes sure that they have an adequate social life with their peers, takes them to the park, the zoo, etc. I want a wife who takes care of the children when they are sick, a wife who arranges to be around when the children need special care, because, of course, I cannot miss classes at school. My wife must arrange to lose time at work and not lose the job. It may mean a small cut in my wife‘s income from time to time, but I guess I can tolerate that. Needless to say, my wife will arrange and pay for the care of the children while my wife is working. I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs. I want a wife who will keep my house …… 此处隐藏：449字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……