Question

　　How many men do housework? Recently a European Commission（委员会）tried to find out people's ideas and reactions to the women's movement. As part of their survey（调查）, they asked many men and women the question, “Who does the housework?”The men answered very differently from the women!

　　The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48％ of British husbands said they did these things. 37％ of Danish（丹麦的）men helped in the house. But only 15 of Italian men said they did the housework, many of them said they never helped at all!

　　But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38％ of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives' answers.

　　Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience.'? Write and tell us what you think.

(1) The survey was carried out in_______.

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A．on waiting

B．to wait

C．off waiting

D．waiting

(2) The subject for the survey is_______.

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A．how many boys do the housework

B．who does the housework at home

C．how many women do the housework

D．who are more diligent, wives or husbands

(3) From the passage we can see that_______.

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A．there were more husbands who did the housework than wives

B．husbands did half of the housework all the time

C．there were more wives who did the house work than husbands

D．wives did almost all the housework at home

(4) More ________husbands help in the house than ________husbands.

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A．British；Danish

B．Italian；Danish

C．Danish；British

D．Italian；British

(5) The survey shows that ________husbands were the most honest.

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A．Italian

B．Danish

C．British

D．American

Answer 1

答案：D;B;C;A;B
解析：

(1) 第一段第二句“…a European Commission tried to find out...”由此可见，答案为D。A、B、C项中的三个国家只是这个欧洲委员会进行调查的三个国家。 (2) 第一段后半部分“…they asked many men and women the question, 'Who does the housework?'”B项与此句相符。 (3) 从第二、三段所给的调查结果可看出，做家务的女人比做家务的男人多。 (4) 从第四段的最终调查结果看出38％的英国男士帮妻子做家务，而意大利的丈夫几乎不做家务，丹麦的丈夫有37％做家务，由此可见英国丈夫还是比较模范的。 (5) 由第三段最后一句“The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands”可知。