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Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simple change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value, like toys for adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really amount to much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out first, stains removed by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. Ifone compares the image of the woman in the women’s magazine with the goods advertised by those periodicals, one realizes how useful a projected image can be commercially. A careful balance has to be struck: if you show a labour-saving device, follow it up with a complicated’ recipe on the next page; on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness, emphasizing the creative aspect of her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg herself, to produce "that lovely homo-baked flavour the family love", and knitting patterns that can be made by hand, or worse still, on knitting machines, which became tremendously fashionable when they were first introduced. Automatic cookers are advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park, not by professional women presetting the dinner before leaving home for work.?
66. According to the passage, many of the home electric goods which are supposed to liberate woman___.?
A. remove unpleasant aspects of housework?
B. save the housewife very little time?
C. save the housewife’s time but not her money?
D. have absolutely no value for the housewife ?
67. According to the context, "capital investment" refers to money___.?
A. spent on a washing machine?
B. borrowed from the bank?
C. saved in the bank?
D. lent to other people ?
68. The goods advertised in women’s magazines are really meant to ___.?
A. free housewives from housework?
B. encourage housewives to go out to work?
C. make housewives into excellent cooks?
D. give them a false sense of fulfillment
答案與詳解
TEXT A
短文大意:這篇文章講的是現(xiàn)代的日用家電產(chǎn)品的缺陷,它們只是改變了家務(wù)勞動的方式,而不能真正節(jié)省時間,且其商業(yè)廣告具有很強的誤導(dǎo)性和迷惑性。
66.答案:B
【參考譯文】根據(jù)短文,許多被認(rèn)為可以解放婦女的家電產(chǎn)品如何?
【試題分析】本題為細(xì)節(jié)題。
【詳細(xì)解答】本題可從文中第二、三句找到答案“Machines have a certain novelty value… but the time saved does not really amount to much… ”即家用電器具有一定的新穎的價值,但是并不能節(jié)省多少時間。故選項B為正確答案。?
67.答案:A
【參考譯文】根據(jù)上下文,capital investment指的是什么錢?
【試題分析】本題為細(xì)節(jié)題。
【詳細(xì)解答】短文第四句話說“It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a laundry… since no capital investment is required.”即與其在家使用洗衣機這么麻煩,還不如直接把衣服送到洗衣店。那樣也不需要基本投資。由此可知,capital investment指購買洗衣機所需的花費。故選項A為正確答案。?
68. 答案:D
【參考譯文】在女性雜志上做廣告的產(chǎn)品的真正目的什么?
【試題分析】本題為細(xì)節(jié)題。
【詳細(xì)解答】文中在提到女性雜志上的廣告時講到“on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job,but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness,emphasizing the creative aspect of her function as a housewife.”即決不要使家庭主婦意識到那將會多一份勞動,反而要使她感覺自己很能干,強調(diào)她作為家庭主婦的創(chuàng)造才能。這說明這些廣告都利用了家庭主婦的心理弱點,給她們造成了一種虛假的滿足感。故選項D為正確答案。
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