2.Women are overtaking men in education and in the workplace,a senior Government minister said yesterday-creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers.
Universities minister David Willetts predicted relationships and traditional household structures will be transformed as the female's power ahead,and women earn more than their male partners.
Successful women will have to"marry down"by choosing partners less qualified than them-and may increasingly select men based on how supportive they might be to their careers,rather than whether they can support them financially.
And experts say women will often become the main breadwinners,with more men staying at home to look after children.
Mr.Willetts said there was clear evidence from schools that boys are"lagging behind",and are being overtaken by female students at university.He said:"I am not against women having those advantages but there is now a rather striking gap,if you look at the statistics,where it looks as if approximately 50percent of women are graduating from university by the time they're 30and perhaps about 40percent of men."He added:"It may lead to changes in the patterns of household living.So there are some deep questions here."
The Philadelphia-based Pew Research Centre study,published in The Atlantic magazine,suggests female graduates are being put in similar situation to that faced for some time by black women.In America,70percent of black women have no husband and there are twice as many black women as black men with university degrees.
Many educated British women believe there is already a dearth of traditional husbands.Claire Davis,33,who works in financial services and lives in south London,told The Times:"I have a good job and my own flat and I can pretty much do what I want,but a lot of them I meet aren't really of the right quality.If I look at the friends I went to university with,the men don't tend to be doing as well as the women."

28.David Willetts'attitude toward women's overtaking men in education and in the workplace could be described asA.
A.worried       B.positive   C.supportive   D.excited
29.Claire Davis'example is used to indicate thatD.
A.a(chǎn) lot of women prefer to be single
B.black women do not want to be married
C.women are less excellent than men in general
D.excellent women have difficulty in looking for a good husband
30.The underlined word"dearth"in the last paragraph most probably meansA.
A.shortage      B.respect   C.oversupply   D.pride
31.The best title of this passage would probably beA.
A.Successful Women Forced to"Marry Down"
B.A Poor Generation of Stay-at-home Fathers
C.The Marriages'Influence on Economy
D.The Advantages of the Traditional Family Pattern.

分析 本文主要講的是現(xiàn)在的女人都是普遍比男人強(qiáng),因此產(chǎn)生了一些社會(huì)問(wèn)題,特別是會(huì)被迫"下嫁"不如自己的男子.

解答 28.A 推理判斷題.根據(jù)文章David Willetts predicted relationships and traditional household structures will be transformed as the female's power ahead,and women earn more than their male partners.內(nèi)容可知,由于女子比男子強(qiáng),因此可能不容易找到另一半,這是值得擔(dān)憂的問(wèn)題之一.
29.D 推理判斷題.根據(jù)最后一段段中的"a lot of the men I meet aren't really of the right standard"可知她想找對(duì)象,但沒(méi)有符合她標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的.結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選D
30.A 詞義猜測(cè)題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容Many educated British women believe there is already a dearth of traditional husbands.以及后面的例子可知,現(xiàn)在的男子多數(shù)不如女子. shortage 短缺;pride 傲慢;驕傲;respect 尊敬;over supply 供給過(guò)多.結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選A
31.A主旨大意題.本文主要講的是現(xiàn)在的女人都是普遍比男人強(qiáng),因此產(chǎn)生了一些社會(huì)問(wèn)題,特別是會(huì)被迫"下嫁"不如自己的男子.結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選A

點(diǎn)評(píng) 本文是社會(huì)文化類(lèi)閱讀理解.做這類(lèi)題材閱讀理解時(shí)要求考生對(duì)文章通讀一遍,做題時(shí)結(jié)合原文和題目有針對(duì)性的找出相關(guān)語(yǔ)句進(jìn)行仔細(xì)分析,結(jié)合選項(xiàng)選出正確答案.推理判斷題也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確答案,切忌胡亂猜測(cè),一定要做到有理有據(jù).

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"In places where the subway doesn't arrive,where it's difficult to change from one kind of transport to another,it's so easy to get where you want to go with Mobike,"Hu Hong,29,told AFP.She pedals to her work.
However,the plan has also led to various problems.Last month,two nurses in Beijing were placed under administrative punishment for five days for putting locks on two shared bikes.And in December,a man who stole a shared bike was sentenced to 3month in prison,and fined 1,000 yuan by the Shanghai Minhang People's Court.
"Bike-sharing is a greener method of transportation,"said Liu Xiaoming,vice-minister of transport."But it's a connection of online and offline business.Operators are usually strong in online services,but lack (缺少) offline business experience,which causes problems."To deal with these problems,the company came up with the idea of encouraging people to return the bikes to stations by rewarding free time for their next rides.

8.Who has made the use of bikes popular again?A
A.The pioneered start-ups.
B.The students and workers.
C.The local government.
D.The businessman.
9.Which of the following doesn't belong to the"last mile"problem?A
A.Missing the business plane for traffic jam.
B.Getting to somewhere the subway doesn't reach.
C.Having trouble in changing from a bus to a taxi.
D.Having difficulty with the final part of a person's travel.
10.What reason causes many problems in bike-sharing?B
A.There are no laws on this business at the moment.
B.Operators have no enough offline business experience.
C.The bike-sharing business is too difficult to run.
D.Some people do damage to the bikes on purpose.
11.What can we learn from the passage?B
A.Cycling is free of charge.
B.Riding bikes comes into fashion again.
C.There are some laws against bike-sharing.
D.A new smartphone disappears in our life.

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