【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 . Go to the store. Go to the freezer section. Buy some premade biscuits and put them in the oven. She straightup refused to give me the recipe, because it was hard and took a long time to make. In her mind, it was a waste of time. Getting off the phone, it occurred to me that spending every day of your life serving a husband and five children wasn39。t fun at all. And then there are the grandchildren who eventually e along demanding Cloud Biscuits, a whole new expanded set of people to feed. She was basically a slave to those hungry mouths, cooking scratch meals three times a day. When she wasn39。t trapped in the kitchen, she had to keep the house clean, make sure she looked good enough to be socially acceptable, and make sure her kids and husband looked good enough to be socially acceptable. And she had no days off. I know my grandma loves her kids and her grandkids, her husband and the life she led, but man, it must have been a lot of thankless, mindless labor. No wonder everyone went allin on processed foods when they came around. Imagine the nice break something like a microwave dinner would give a woman working, unpaid, for her family every single day? I also had another grandma. She was a scholar who helped found the Center for the Study of Women in Society at University of Oregon. She was a pioneering secondwave feminist who wrote books, gave lectures and traveled the world. But, she did all of that after divorcing my grandpa, when most of her kids were out of the house. Back then, in the 1950s and the 1960s, there was no illusion about women having it all. How could that even possibly happen? If you were taking care of a family, waiting on your husband, you had no time to follow your dreams, unless you made that your dream. A lot of women took that approach. We call it Stockholm Syndrome now. And of course, these women I am talking about are uppermiddleclass white women. Romanticizing the 1950s is especially disgusting when you think about how women of color and poor women were treated back then, and the lack of education and choices available to them. Because the women in this country demanded something approaching equality, Holte has the chance to live out her fantasy. Not every woman in America is so lucky. We still don39。t have pay equality and in many states, we still don39。t have autonomy over our own bodies. Poor women and women of color still lack the opportunities of their wealthy and white peers. And while it39。s getting better, women are still expected to be responsible for the emotional labor of running a household and raising the children. But at least we can get jobs. At least we don39。t have to sew our own clothes, wear a full face of makeup every day and spend hours making Cloud Biscuits some ungrateful kid will wolf down, barely remembering to say thank you.（1）According to the author, what is the future our foremothers fought for? A.Watching shows like I Love Lucy and listening to vinyl recordings.B.Having the freedom to make choices in their daily life.C.Making Cloud Biscuits for their kids and husbands.D.Making sure their kids and husbands socially acceptable.（2）What does the underlined word that in paragraph 13 refer to? A.Writing books, giving lectures and traveling the world.B.Divorcing husband when kids were out of house.C.Taking care of a family and waiting on husband.D.Women39。s illusion about having it all.（3）What does the Stockholm Syndrome in paragraph 14 really mean in the passage? A.Women have been used to the unfair treatment at homeB.Women nowadays like the way of life in the 1950s.C.Victims end up sympathizing with the abusers.D.Women have the chance to live out their dreams.（4）The author thinks of the life of a 1950s housewife as ________. A.fantasticB.admirableC.awfulD.unforgettable（5）What can we learn from the passage? A.It was a waste of time to give grandchildren the recipe.B.All women are not lucky to follow their own dreams in America now.C.Housewives received recognition for their efforts from family members.D.The uppermiddleclass white women did a better job in running the household.（6）What is the author39。s main purpose in writing this passage? A.To show great appreciation to her grandmas.B.To call on housewives to claim the pay for the housework they undertake.C.To draw readers39。 attention to the situations women face, especially those poor and of color.D.To arouse women39。s awareness of equal pay at work.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）A（4）C（5）B（6）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，作者認(rèn)為在日常生活中擁有選擇的自由是我們的祖先為之奮斗的未來(lái)，同時(shí)想讓讀者注意到女性所面臨的處境，尤其是那些貧窮的有色人種。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Everyone should be so lucky as to get to decide what they wear and how they spend their time. That39。s the future our foremothers fought for.”每個(gè)人都應(yīng)該很幸運(yùn)，能夠決定自己穿什么，如何度過(guò)時(shí)間。這就是我們的祖先為之奮斗的未來(lái)，可知，作者認(rèn)為在日常生活中擁有選擇的自由是我們的祖先為之奮斗的未來(lái)。故選B。 （2）考查代詞指代。根據(jù)第十三段中的“If you were taking care of a family, waiting on your husband, you had no time to follow your dreams, unless you made that your dream.”如果你要照顧一個(gè)家庭，服侍你的丈夫，你就沒(méi)有時(shí)間去追求你的夢(mèng)想，除非你把它當(dāng)成你的夢(mèng)想，可知，that指代的其實(shí)是前面的內(nèi)容，也就是taking care of a family, waiting on your husband。故選C。 （3）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第十四段中的“A lot of women took that approach. We call it Stockholm Syndrome now.”很多女性采取了這種方式。我們現(xiàn)在稱之為Stockholm Syndrome，可知，我們現(xiàn)在把1950s很多女性接受了這個(gè)方式生活下去的這個(gè)現(xiàn)象稱作Stockholm Syndrome。根據(jù)上文可知，1950s很多女性的生活方式則是——照顧家庭、服侍丈夫、沒(méi)有時(shí)間去追求自己的夢(mèng)想，這對(duì)女性來(lái)講是不公平的，故選A。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“I think it39。s important to remember that being a 1950s housewife was actually totally awful, and something our grandmothers and mothers fought against.”我認(rèn)為重要的是要記住，作為一個(gè)50年代的家庭主婦實(shí)際上是非常糟糕的，這是我們的祖母和母親所反對(duì)的。可知，作者認(rèn)為20世紀(jì)50年代家庭主婦的生活很糟糕。故選C。 （5）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第四段中的“Holte has the chance to liv