新理念英语上机测试(华工版)_B3U14-A(6)

B) She pays for at least part of the evening's expenses.

C) She asks the man's parents' for permission.

D) She arranges to pick the man up and send him back.

学生答案：B

得分：3分

20.

A) 51%.

B) 42%.

C) 19%.

D) 49%.

学生答案：D

得分：3分

Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Among the most profound changes of all is the (21)_________________ , tracked by numerous surveys, that as women have gained more freedom, more education and more economic power, they have become less happy. No tidy theory explains the trend, notes University of Pennsylvania (22)_________________ Justin Wolfers, a co-author of The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness. "We looked across all sectors — young vs. old, kids or no kids, married or not married, education, no education, working or not working — and it stayed the same," he says of the data. "But there are a few ways to look at it," he adds. "As Susan Faludi said, the women's movement wasn't about happiness." It may be that women have become more honest about what tortures them. Or that they are now free to struggle with the same pressures and

(23)_________________ that once accounted for greater male unhappiness. Or that modern life in a global economy is simply more (24)_________________ for everyone but especially for women, who are working longer hours while doing most of the housework at home. "Some of the other social changes that have happened over the last 35 years — changes in family, in the workplace — may have affected men (25)_________________ than women," Wolfers says. "So maybe we're not learning about changes due to the women's movement but changes in society."

All the shapes in the (26)_________________ are shifting. Equal numbers of men and women report frequent stress in daily life, and most agree that government and businesses have failed to adjust to the changes in the family. As the Old Economy dissolves before our eyes, men and women express (27)_________________ similar life goals when asked about the importance of money, health, jobs and family. If male jobs keep vanishing, if physical strength loses its workplace value, if the premium shifts ever more to education, in which (28)_________________