求住英语高手Passage 1For most people,life is easier and more comfo

求住英语高手
Passage 1
For most people,life is easier and more comfortable than ever before.Convenience foods from the supermarket simplify shopping and cooking.Household appliances like the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine have taken the drudgery out of housework.Released from these household chores,many wives have found jobs outside the home.Women are achieving economic independence.
Families,too,are simpler today.In American,it is not customary for parents to live with their married children.With our greater mobility,relatives have scattered,the parents retiring to Florida or Arizona and the young people,after they marry,going wherever their jobs or their parents or their interests take them.
Young adult women have new freedom,too.While attending college,they often live away from home,sometimes far from their parents or their relatives.After college,they move to the city,find a job,and set up a ‘bachelor' apartment.This is the era of women's liberation.
But all this freedom and affluence (富裕) have had an unforeseen and in some respects a devastating （破坏的）effect on marriage
1.In the U.S.,families are becoming ______.
A) bigger
B) smaller
C) easier
D) freer
2.Why are women able to achieve economic independence?
A) Because convenience foods are available.
B) Because they have their own salary
C) Because they are free away from drudgery
D) Because they are attending college.
3.Hard housework was taken away by _________.
A) liberated women
B) retired parents
C) supermarkets
D) modern equipment
4.Which of the following statements is not true according to the text?
A) Women's liberation had made it possible for them to study.
B) Comfortable life influences marriage in America.
C) Adults can go wherever they want.
D) Women prefer to be bachelors.

1.B;这道题在第二段中可以找到答案,Families,too,are simpler today.家庭也简化了,老人亲戚都不和已婚的子女一起住,因此家庭变小了.C选项应该是生活更简便容易了,D选项是年轻的成年女性更自由了,从倒数第二段可看出.
2.B；第一段最后两句话,Released from these household chores,many wives have found jobs outside the home.Women are achieving economic independence.从家务中解脱出来,使更多的妻子能够在外找工作,因而女性获得了经济独立.B选项Because they have their own salary ,有工作才会有薪水,因此选B.A、C都是让女性从家务中解脱出来的原因,不是能够获得经济独立的直接原因.D和此题没有太大的联系.
3.D；第一段讲了Household appliances like the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine have taken the drudgery out of housework.正是这些现代的机器设备,如洗衣机之类的,才使女性从繁重的家务中解脱出来,因此说繁重的家务被现代设备带走了,因此选C
4.A；B、C、D都能从整篇文章中看出来,只有A是错的,不是女性的劳动使她们学习成为可能,而是现在的生活、自由使女性能够上学.