一个阅读问题GWD

草木染湘

The idea that equipping homes

with electrical appliances and other
“modern” household technologies
Linewould eliminate drudgery, save labor
(5)time, and increase leisure for women
who were full-time home workers
remained largely unchallenged until
the women’s movement of the 1970’s
spawned the groundbreaking and
(10)influential works of sociologist Joann
Vanek and historian Ruth Cowan.
Vanek analyzed 40 years of time-
use surveys conducted by home
economists to argue that electrical
(15)appliances and other modern house-
hold technologies reduced the effort
required to perform specific tasks,
but ownership of these appliances did
not correlate with less time spent on
(20)housework by full-time home workers.
In fact, time spent by these workers
remained remarkably constant―at
about 52 to 54 hours per week―from
the 1920’s to the 1960’s, a period
(25)of significant change in household
technology.In surveying two
centuries of household technology
in the United States, Cowan argued
that the “industrialization” of the home
(30)often resulted in more work for full-time
home workers because the use of
such devices as coal stoves, water
pumps, and vacuum cleaners tended
to reduce the workload of married-
(35)women’s helpers (husbands, sons,
daughters, and servants) while
promoting a more rigorous standard
of housework.The full-time home
worker’s duties also shifted to include
(40)more household management, child
care, and the post-Second World War
phenomenon of being “Mom’s taxi.”
Q10:
The passage suggests that Vanek and Cowan would agree that modernizing household technology did not

1. reduce the workload of servants and other household helpers
   
2. raise the standard of housework that women who were full-time home workers set for themselves
   
3. decrease the effort required to perform household tasks
   
4. reduce the time spent on housework by women who were full-time home workers
   
5. result in a savings of money used for household maintenance
   

Answer: E---D 我看到文章是没有提到节约用钱的事情吧，忘指教！

Q10:
The passage suggests that Vanek and Cowan would agree that modernizing household technology did not

1. reduce the workload of servants and other household helpers
   
2. raise the standard of housework that women who were full-time home workers set for themselves
   
3. decrease the effort required to perform household tasks
   
4. reduce the time spent on housework by women who were full-time home workers
   
5. result in a savings of money used for household maintenance
   

Answer: E---D 我看到文章是没有提到节约用钱的事情吧，忘指教！

草木染湘

还请问一个BF题目
Business Consultant:  Some corporations shun the use of executive titles because they fear that the use of titles indicating position in the corporation tends to inhibit communication up and down the corporate hierarchy.  Since an executive who uses a title is treated with more respect by outsiders, however, use of a title can facilitate an executive’s dealings with external businesses.  Clearly, corporations should adopt the compromise of encouraging their executives to use their corporate titles externally but not internally, since even if it is widely known that the corporation’s executives use titles outside their organization, this knowledge does not by itself inhibit communication within the corporation.

In the consultant’s reasoning, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

A.    The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem; the second presents a drawback to that strategy.
B.    The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem; the second is a consideration raised to call into question the effectiveness of that strategy as a means of achieving that goal.
C.    The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem; the second is a consideration the consultant raises in questioning the significance of that problem.
D.    The first is part of an explanation that the consultant offers for a certain phenomenon; the second is that phenomenon.
E.    The first describes a policy for which the consultant seeks to provide a justification; the second is a consideration the consultant raises as part of that justification.
  Answer: A
A 的后半部分看不去就是不对啊。。

ashley0707

第一个阅读题选D.reduce the time spent on housework by women who were full-time home workers
第二个选A，文中说的however, use of a title can facilitate an executive’s dealings with external businesses是说好处，A后半部分反着说，暗示不这样做就没有这样的好处，是drawback。我这样理解了