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　　People like to say, “The hand rocks the cradle rules the world.” Or they say, “Behind every successful man, there is a woman.”

　　Now some women still like making their husbands and sons successful. But some women want more for themselves. They want good jobs. When they work, they want more pay. They want to be as successful as men.

　　Today the best jobs are still given to men. Even when women do the same work, they are often paid less than men. Some women want these things changed. They want to stand beside the men, with the same chances for success.

　　Now many American women are earning money outside their homes. More than half of the women at the age of eighteen to sixty-five have got jobs. In general, working women have had more education than those who stay at home.

　　Among women with jobs, eight out of ten drive a car to work; and most of them often spend their holidays away from home. They like traveling by air. Women's work has made several changes in women's lives and in men's lives, too.

　　But things are quite different from those in the Middle East countries. In the Middle East countries, women have to stay at home. Their duty is to look after their families and do all the housework. They can't find work outside. When they go out in public, they cover their faces with something and walk behind their husbands.

　　For the past few years the women's life has been changing in those countries. Many women want to play an active role in the society, though working gives them fewer chances of getting married. Many men still want to marry them in the old ways.

1．More and more women want to get jobs because ________.

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A．they don't want to stand behind their husbands in the street

B．they think they are more important than men

C．they think they are as important as men

D．housework troubles them too much

2．Sometimes women are still badly paid ________.

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A．because women want more money

B．because of the old ways of thinking

C．because women can't do as well as men do

D．but we don't know why

3．If women have go higher education ________.

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A．they can get better jobs easier

B．they don't have to do any housework

C．they can. travel by plane

D．they can be paid better than men

4．Working gives women ________.

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A．the chance to receive more education than men

B．chances to play an important role in the society

C．more pay than men

D．fewer chances of doing the housework

5．From this passage we know ________.

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A．women have the same rights as men today

B．women don't want to work outside their homes

C．more and more women want to play an active role in their countries

D．in the Middle Fast countries all the women stay at home

“Life is speeding up．Everyone is getting unwell．’’

This may sound like something someone would say today．But in fact，an unknown person who lived in Rome in 53AD（公元）wrote it．

    We all love new inventions．They are exciting，amazing and can even change our lives．

But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?

Picture this．You're rushing to finish your homework on the computer．Your mobile phone rings，a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen，the noise from the television is getting louder and louder．Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work．Now you have to stay up all night to get it done．How happy do you feel?

    Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave up feeling stressed（有压力的）and tired．Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities，who have no telephones，no car，not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they live simple lives．

    One family in the UK went ” back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today．The grandparents，with their daughter，and grandsons Benjamin，10 and Thomas，7，spent nine weeks in a 1940s house．They had no washing machine，microwave，computer or mobile phones．

    The grandmother, Lyn，said，“The more things you have，the more difficult life becomes．”The boy said they fought less．Probably, they said，because there was less to fight over such as their computer．Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a” trendy（新潮人物），beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things”．

1．The writer uses the quote（引用）at the beginning of the story to                    ．

A．tell us a truth about our life

B．tell us what life was like long time ago

C．point out what causes such a thing to happen

D．point out that you experience some big problems and they may be the same

2．In the passage the writer describes a picture to show that new inventions                 ．

A．have speeded up our lives

B．have improved the quality of our lives

C．may make people feel very happy

D．may bring people some trouble

3．The family chose to spend some time in a l 940s house because                 ．

A．they loved to live simple lives

B．they wanted to know how people lived without modem inventions

C．they were troubled by modem inventions

D．1iving in a different time would be a lot of fun for them

4．According to the passage，which is NOT right? 

A．People who live far away from noise often seem to be happier．

B．An unknown Roman was sure that the quality of life would get better．

C．The family had some changes when they lived in a l 940s house

D．With the improvement of our lives, we often feel stressed and tired．

5．The passage is mainly about                  ．

A．problems with technology

B．improvements of our lives with technology

C．changes happening to technology

D．the importance of technology

The new teacher is quite ____ Mr Wang. I like her better.

A．different from                          B．the same as

C．difference                             D．the same to