A.In doing housework.B.In educating children.C.In bringing up children.D.In jobs and b
A.In doing housework.
B.In educating children.
C.In bringing up children.
D.In jobs and business situations.
A.In doing housework.
B.In educating children.
C.In bringing up children.
D.In jobs and business situations.
A.British and Italian men are not truthful.
B.Danish men are the best husbands in Europe.
C.European women are still doing most of the housework at home.
D.Danish women live the happiest lives in Europe.
Nowadays, a husband tends to ______.
A.play a greater part in looking after the children
B.help his wife by doing most of the housework
C.feel dissatisfied with his role in the family
D.take a part-time job so that he can help in the home
1.The size of most American families is() that of other countries.
A、larger than
B、smaller than
C、as big as
D、as small as
2.When children grow up, they leave their parents’ home to()
A、get married
B、be free
C、find good jobs
D、study
3.They visit their parents()
A、on weekdays
B、on weekends
C、at any time
D、on holiday
4.Which of the following statements is WRONG()
A、Children have the freedom to choose their own job
B、Parents don't ask their children to do the housework.
C、Parents think it important for children to make their own decision.
D、When children grow up, they usually live far away from their home.
5.Some parents pay their children for doing housework because ()
A、children can learn how to make money for themselves
B、their children required them to do so
C、they are rich
D、it is required by law
听力原文: Men said they spent 13 hours a week on household duty including cleaning the washroom,taking out the rubbish and changing the bed sheets.But 60 per cent of the 1000 men questioned said their efforts were
unnoticed by the woman in their lives because they did not like to make a fuss. Almost half said they felt women were more likely to show off about the amount of housework they take on.The task most men said they did was taking out the rubbish--with 85 per cent claiming credit. Carrying the shopping bags was the second most popular housework among men,with 80 per cent saying they take the weight off their wife's shoulders.Food shopping came in third place--with 78 per cent saying they are responsible for restocking the fridge each week. The research by Dove,the beauty brand,found men spend 4.7 hours a week on housework as well as 1.5 hours on DIY and 6.9 hours on childcare.Paul Connell.brand manager of Dove Men Care. said that their research showed that modem men were becoming more vocal about the contribution they make in the home,and the popular stereotype of men doing nothing around the house is no longer accurate.
What do we learn about the 60 per cent of men who were questioned?
A.They didn't like to do housework.
B.Their efforts were unnoticed by the woman.
C.They were very tired after a whole day's work.
D.They wanted to share the housework with women.
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A.In Washington.
B.In New York.
C.In London.
D.In Yorkshire.
"I was very happy at school and had wonderful teaching. I passed the university entrance examination and was ready to go to university but with WWI I went into banking. I was paid 1 pound a week. Manchester University kept my place open for three years but I was enjoying the money and freedom. So I turned it down."
Mrs. Stephen is now in the second year of her Open University course and is finding it hard work. She underestimates her ability. "I'm feeling tired more frequently..I can't do more than an hour' s work at a time. The memory' s shocking. I' m supposed to be revising and I look up notes ! did earlier this year and think, ' Have you mad this before?' so I' m doing it very slowly—one credit a year, so it' 11 take six years."
"At the moment the greatest reward is simply the increase in knowledge'--and the discipline. I had an essay failed this week. The professor said I hadn't answered the question. I've been thinking about all week. I know I haven' t got the facility for essay construction. I just let myself to get excited. I feel more emotionally than I do mentally. I'm very ordinary really."
While claiming to be ordinary and lazy, Mrs. Stephen is still working hard daily at her assignments. Mrs. Stephen sees her studies as keeping her fit and independent. "Because of my life I' ve been self-sufficient. It' s not a very nice characteristic. It means I don' t care enough about people. I cannot say I find comfort in what I'm learning, so I'U be interested to see if there's a life ahead."
When Florence said "I' m more of a creature to polish my mind than polish my furniture", she meant that______.
A.she was tired of learning
B.she was thirsty for knowledge
C.she was more suitable for doing housework
D.she did not have enough time to keep the house clean
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably (坚定地) that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy--one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of noting that they have placed five knives, five spoons, and five forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.
Of course, the truth is not so simple. In this century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped--or, as the case might be, bumped into--concepts that adults take for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, when asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed (说服) into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments (基本原理) of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers--the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is prerequisite (先决条件) for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table--is itself far from innate.
After children have helped to set the table with impressive accuracy, they ________.
A.are able to help parents serve dishes
B.tend to do more complicated housework
C.are able to figure out the total pieces
D.can enter a second-grade mathematics class
A.enjoyment
B.hobby
C.affection
D.indulgence
A.intrigued
B.fascinated
C.irritated
D.stimulated