新东方阅读蓝皮书疑问

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Historians of women's labor in the United States at first largely disregarded the story of female service workers—women earning wages in occupations such as salesclerk，domestic servant, and office secretary．These historians focused instead on factory work，primarily because it seemed so different from traditional，unpaid、、women's work in the home, and because the underlying economic forces of industrialism were presumed to be gender-blind and hence emancipator in effect．Unfortunately, emancipation has been less profound than expected, for not even industrial wage labor has escaped continued sex segregation in the workplace.

To explain this unfinished revolution in the status of women，historians have recently begun to emphasize the way a prevailing definition of femininity often determines the kinds of work allocated to women，even when such allocation is inappropriate to new conditions．For instance，early textile-mill entrepreneurs，in justifying women's employment in wage labor, made much of the assumption that women were by nature skillful at detailed tasks and patient in carrying out repetitive chores；the mill owners thus imported Into the new industrial order hoary stereotypes associated with the homemaking activities they presumed to have been the purview of women．Because women accepted the more unattractive new industrial tasks more readily than did men，such jobs came to be regarded as female jobs．And employers，who assumed that women's＂real" aspirations were for  marriage and family lire，declined to pay women wages commensurate with those of men．Thus many lower-skilled，lower-paid，less secure jobs came to be perceived as＂female．"

More remarkable than the original has been the persistence of such sex segregation in twentieth-century industry．Once an occupation came to be perceived as "female＂,employers showed surprisingly little interest in changing that perception，even when higher profits beckoned。And despite the urgent need of the United．States during the Second World War to    mobilize its human resources fully, job segregation by sex characterized even the most important war industries．Moreover, once the war ended，employers quickly returned to men most of the＂male＂jobs that women had been permitted to master．

Which of the following words best expresses the opinion of the author of the passage concerning the notion that women are more skillful than men in carrying out detailed tasks?

（Ａ）＂patient"(1ine 23)

（Ｂ）＂repetitive"(1ine 23)

（Ｃ）＂hoary＂(1ine 25)

（Ｄ）＂ homemaking＂(1ine 26)

（Ｅ）"purview"(1ine 27)
这道题目有点看不明白，题目问的是作者对于文章中说的“女性在一些细节活上干的更出色”这个说法的看法。答案是patient。这个哪跟哪啊？

Which of the following best describes the relationship of the final paragraph to the passage as a whole?

(A)  The central idea is reinforced by the citation of evidence drawn from twentieth-century history

(B)  The central idea is restated in such a way as to form a transition to a new topic for discussion.

(C)  The central idea is restated and juxtaposed with evidence that might appear to contradict it．

(D)  A partial exception to the generalizations of the central idea is dismissed as unimportant．

(E)  Recent history is cited to suggest that the central idea's validity is gradually diminishing
这道题目我想问一下A为什么不对呢？
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