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  3. Once it was possible to【C1】______ male and female roles easily by the【C2】______ of labour. Men worked outside the home and earn

Once it was possible to【C1】______ male and female roles easily by the【C2】______ of labour. Men worked outside the home and earn

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问题      Once it was possible to【C1】______ male and female roles easily by the【C2】______  of labour. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to【C3】______ their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most of people, and there was not much opportunity for men or women to【C4】______ their roles.【C5】______  by the middle of this century, men’s and women’s roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
     In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the【C6】______ American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people【C7】______ in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women【C8】______  new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising【C9】______   with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal (公社的) homes or farms【C10】______ economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes.【C11】______  , many Americans did not value the【C12】______ male role of soldier. Some young men refused to be【C13】______ as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.
    【C14】______ numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But its influence【C15】______ to many parts of American society. Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social【C16】______ Industrial workers and business executives alike【C17】______   overtime work so that they【C18】______ more leisure time with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers【C19】______ from high paying situations to【C20】______ their profession in poorer neighborhoods.
【C9】
选项 A、events
B、tasks
C、assignments
D、chores
答案B
解析 考查近义词辨析。task是指由权威人士或雇主给安排的工作，或是必须经常做的、难度大的工作；assignment指的是分派给某人去做的事情；chore指的是农场或是家里的一些日常琐碎的活儿；event是“事件”，尤指不寻常的、有意义的或是重大的事情。这里task为最佳选项，因为抚养孩子是一项经常性的、难度很大的工作。整个句子的意思是：男人对育儿更感兴趣了，开始和妻子们分担养育孩子的工作。
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