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A：T
B：F
答案：A

(3)、The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.
A：T
B：F
答案：B

(4)、The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.
A：T
B：F
答案：A

(5)、The ant's friends saved the girl's life.
A：T
B：F
答案：A

Passage 2、
　　The mass media influences all aspects of our lives, including the learning of gender roles. Newspapers and magazines, television, and film all have an influence on how we view the roles of women and men and on how we think they should behave.
　　Four decades ago, traditional women’s magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Family Circle talked to women as though they were children who needed to learn the basics of how to care for their families. Today, magazines do not do this. However, they still tend to define the
female role in terms of homemaking and motherhood, and to offer beauty advice to help women attract men and please husbands. There are now a few

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less traditional magazines such as Ms. that show women in a range of roles and that cover a much wider range of topics.
　　Television commercials have also, until recently, presented women primarily as sex objects and as housewives. Young sexy women were shown admiring older men who smoked a particular cigarette brand. Housewives were shown smiling joyfully about their clean bathrooms, or looking guilty for not using the right laundry soap to wash their husband’s clothes. These days advertisers are more careful about the way they present women, and they are presented in a variety of roles. However, it is still quite common to see advertisements where beautiful young women are dressed in sexy clothes to sell cars or other products. One study also found that the changes are mainly on nighttime television, with daytime commercials still tending to portray women doing household chores.
　　Prime-time television programs also often used to stereotype women. In past decades, women were usually portrayed as lovers, as mothers, or as weak, passive girlfriends of powerful, effective men. Today’s TV programs are somewhat different. Women are more likely to be presented as successful and able to support themselves and their families, but the traditional stereotypes of women are still there. Even when women are depicted as career women, the storylines suggest that they should be sexy as well.

6. The best title for this passage is _________________.
　　A. Gender Roles in the Media
B. Influence of Mass Media in Our Lives
C. Different Types of Media
D Women’s Magazines and Televisions
答案： A

7. What makes Ms. different from other women’s magazines?
A. Ms. offers women tips of caring for their families.
B. Ms. treats women as adults who need to learn about being a mother.
C. Ms. is interested in a wider range of women’s role.
D. Ms. is the type of women’s magazines that dominates now.
答案： C

8. It can be inferred that ____________ might be a new type of women image on the television commercials.
A. young beautiful women dressed in sexy clothes
B. happy mothers doing the household chores
C. guilty wives who don’t use the right soap
D. career women who enjoys her career success
答案： D

9. From the context we know “to stereotype women” (Line 1, Paragraph 4) refers to ______________.
A. to tag on women some fixed roles and images
B. to portray women in some different ways
C. to depict women as successful and able to support themselves
D. to portray women as successful professionals
答案： A

10. Which of the following statement do you think the writer would least agree with in terms of the media’s attitude towards women?
A. The mass media always presents to us a variety of women images as they are in daily life.
B. The mass me
dia focuses women’s roles in life as a mother more than as a professional.
C. The way mass media define women has changed as time goes by.
D

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. The limited images of women mass media presented to the audience through mass media have influenced the way the audience think and behave.
答案： A

Passage 3
Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry.
In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families can not be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families.
In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consists only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take child raising as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people's children, leaving those families free to move from job to job.
11、The passage discusses influence of science and industry on American families.
A：T
B：F
答案： A
12、Families of the past, the present and the future are described in the passage.
A：T
B：F
答案： A
13、People no longer want to have children.
A：T
B：F
答案： B
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