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7．Once I complained to my husband that he wasn't helping enough with our daughter，and I gave him a long list of the parenting chores （家庭杂务） I was shouldering on my own．"But you like doing all that stuff，"he said．I thought about that while reading a new study about the responsibilities of parenting．Researchers asked 191 college professors，both men and women，who had children 2 or younger，the pleasure they experienced from childcare．

 On 16 out of 25 childcare tasks-like taking a child to the doctor or buying clothes for a child-women reported statistically higher levels of enjoyment than men．The only parenting issue that gave women less pleasure than it gave men was having to manage who does what for the child．On the whole，women's scores were 10 percent higher than men's．
    Women are also far more likely to take advantage of family-leave benefits to care for children．In the study，all the universities offered paid family leave，and 69 percent of the women took it，while only 12 percent of the men did．In Sweden，where family leave for both parents is particularly generous，men use about 20 percent of the 480-day benefit．Women use nearly all of it．
    It's difficult to know how cultural and economic pressures or biological functions influence parenting．Plenty of men change diapers （尿布），and studies show that mothers and fathers alike spend more time with children than they used to．Men have more than doubled the time they spend on childcare since 1985．Yet women still spend twice as much time with the kids as men，says the University of Maryland sociologist John Robinson．
 Notably in the study，the parenting activity that gave men the most pleasure （and women，too） was playing and talking with their kids．But when men were asked to rate how often they actually did those things，their scores were about 10 and 40 percent lower than women's．In the end，perhaps the issue is not that mothers are doing too many childcare tasks-my husband was right when he said I liked being a mother-but that men，for all their progress as fathers，are still missing out．

42．The author mentioned the disagreement with her husband toC．
A．complain about his husband's irresponsibility
B．show the difference between men and women
C．bring up the topic of responsibility of parenting
D．describe the unpleasant experience of childcare
43．What can we learn from the passage？D
A．More men take family leave to care for children than before．
B．Women gain more pleasure in every childcare task than men．
C．Men play and talk with their children more than women．
D．Women spend more time with children than before．
44．What is the main idea of the passage？A
A．Fathers should take more responsibility in childcare．
B．Mothers gain more pleasure from childcare than men．
C．Fathers are playing a more important part in childcare．
D．Mothers should give fathers more chances to look after children．
45．What is the author's attitude towards men's performance on childcare？B
A．Approving．B．Dissatisfied．C．Appreciative．D．Objective．

Answer 1

分析 本文属于说明文阅读，作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了一项显示父母照顾孩子时间的研究，发现父亲应该在照看孩子方面承担更多的责任．

解答 42．C．推理判断题．根据第一段Researchers asked 191 college professors，both men and women，who had children 2 or younger，the pleasure they experienced from childcare可知，作者谈到他与妻子的不同意见，目的是为了引出话题．故该题应选C．
43．D．细节理解题．根据第四段Yet women still spend twice as much time with the kids as men，says the University of Maryland sociologist John Robinson可知，母亲花在孩子身上的时间比以前更多了．故该题要选D．
44．A．主旨大意题．根据最后一段perhaps the issue is not that mothers are doing too many childcare tasks-my husband was right when he said I liked being a mother-but that men，for all their progress as fathers，are still missing out可知，父亲应该在照看孩子方面承担更多的责任．故该题要选A．
45．B．态度观点题．根据最后一段perhaps the issue is not that mothers are doing too many childcare tasks-my husband was right when he said I liked being a mother-but that men，for all their progress as fathers，are still missing out可知，作者对父亲在照看孩子方面的表现不满意．故该题要选B．

点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力，做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确的选择．在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．