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　　People like to say: “The hand that rocks (摇动) the cradle (摇篮) rules the world.” Or they say: “Behind every successful man, there is a woman.”

　　 1 But some women want more for themselves. They want good jobs. When they work, they want more pay. They want to be as successful as men.

　　 2 Even when women do the same work, they are often paid less than men. Some women want these things changed. They want to stand beside the men, with the same chances for success.

　　Now many American women are earning money (挣钱) outside their homes. More than half of the women at the age of eighteen to sixty-five have got jobs. In general (一般来说), 3

　　Among women with jobs, eight out of ten drive a car to work, and most of them often spend their holidays away from home. They like travelling by air. 4

　　But things are quite different from those in the Middle East countries.

　　In the Middle East countries, women have to stay at home. 5 . They can't find work outside. When they go out in public (公开场合), they cover their faces with something and walk behind their husbands.

　　For the past few years the women's life has been changing in those countries. Many women want to play an active role (作用) in the society (社会). Though working gives them fewer chances of getting married, many men still want to marry them in the old ways.

A．Their duty is to look after their families and do all the housework.

B．Women's work has made several changes in women's lives ,and in men's lives, too.

C．Now some women still like making their husbands and sons successful.

D．Today the best jobs are still given to men.

E．working women have had more education than those who stay at home.

Can you or do you wash your clothes? Can you cook meals for yourself when your parents are not at home?   1.

Today, many young people can’t look after themselves when they leave home.   2. I don’t want to be a person like that. I want to be more independent(独立的).

When I was only seven years old, I was in the kitchen with my mother enjoying cooking. I always helped her.   3. She was really interested in teaching me how to cook. But when my mother got married (结婚), she didn’t know how to cook. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking. My mother did not start cooking until she was 25 years old.   4. She had to take cooking lessons. So she decided to teach us how to cook because she didn’t want us to have the same experience.

 5. I always wash my own clothes, and sometimes I wash my parents and my brother’s clothes, too. When my parents are not at home, I can cook meals for my brother and me.

A. At the beginning, it was difficult for her.

B. I did nothing at home, because my mother could help me.

C. My mother likes doing chores.

D. And now I can do many chores myself.

E. Do you often help do some chores at home?

F. I learned cooking from my mother.

G. They even can’t wash a pair of socks.