【正文】 s cost will be reduced B) once the technology has been turned into productivity, it will bee popular C) once the technology has been developed for profitable products, it will enter into our daily life D) once the technology has been improved to meet the demands of the developing world, it will be affordable 35. We can infer from the passage that GM food will _____ A) be too expensive to afford B) keep the world from starvation C) be wellaccepted by some consumers D) eventually replace conventional food Passage Two Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on women’s lives. Soviet women under Stalin were also the first generation of women able to give birth in the safety of a hospital, with access to prenatal care (產(chǎn)檢). Marxists had traditionally believed that both capitalism and the middleclass husbands exploited women. The Russian Revolution of 1917 immediately proclaimed plete equality of rights for women. In the 1920s divorce and abortion were made easily available, and women were urged to work outside the home and liberate themselves sexually. After Stalin came to power, sexual and familial liberation was played down, and the most lasting changes for women involved work and education. These changes were truly revolutionary. Young women were constantly told that they had to be equal to men, that they could and should do everything men could do. Peasant women in Russia had long experienced the equality of backbreaking physical labor in the countryside, and they continued to enjoy that equality on collective farms. With the advent of the fiveyearplans, millions of women also began to toil in factories and in heavy construction, building dams, roads and steel mills in summer heat and winter frost. Most of the opportunities open to men through education were also open to women. Determined women pursued their studies and entered the ranks of the betterpaid specialists in industry and science. Medicine practically became a woman’s profession. By 1950, 75 percent of doctors in the Soviet Union were women. Thus Stalinist society gave women great opportunities but demanded great sacrifices as well. The vast majority of women simply had to work outside the home. Wages were so low that it was almost impossible for a family or couple to live only on the husband’s earnings. Moreover, the fulltime working woman had a heavy burden of household tasks in her off hours, for most Soviet men in the 1930s still considered the home and the children the woman’s responsibility. Men continued to monopolize the best jobs. Finally, rapid change and economic hardship led to many broken families, creating further physical, emotional, and mental strains for women. In any event, the oftenneglected human resource of women was mobilized in Stalinist society. 36. The main idea of this passage is that women in Stalinist society ________. A) had economic opportunities that had never been available before B) had difficulty balancing their work and family responsibilities C) had new opportunities but also many hardships D) moved quickly into the highest levels of government 37. In the last paragraph, monopolize probably means _____. A) hold B) earn C) leave D) pay 38. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to ________. A) pare different systems of government B) tell stories about women in Soviet Union C) amuse the reader D) provide information 39. The author’s tone in this passage can best be described as ________. A) disapproving B) emotional C) objective D) sympathetic 40. We can conclude that the economic and social status of women in Stalinist society ________. A) had been improved B) was worse than before C) had