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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". Now some women still like making their husbands and sons successful. But
some women want more for themselves. They want to be successful as men. Today the best jobs are still given
to men. 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 outside their homes. More than half of the women at the age of eighteen to sixty-five
have good jobs. In general, working women have more education than those who stay at home. 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 traveling by air. Women's work had made several changes in women's lives- and in men's lives, too.
But things are quite different from those in the Middle East countries. In the Middle East countries, women have
to stay at home. Their duty is to look after their families and do all the housework. They can't find work outside.
When they go out in public, 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 in the
society (社会). Though working gives them few chances of getting married, many men still want to marry them
in the old ways.
1. More and more women want to get jobs because ________.
A. they don't want to stand behind their husbands in the street
B. they think they are more important than men
C. they think they are as important as men
D. housework troubles them too much
2. Some women are still badly paid ________.
A. because women want more money
B. because of the old ways of thinking
C. because women can't do as well as men do
D. but we don't know why
3. If women have got higher education ________.
A. they can get better jobs easier
B. they don't have to do any housework
C. they can travel by plane
D. they can be paid better than men
4. Working gives women ________.
A. the chance to receive more education than men
B. chances to play an important role in the society
C. more pay than men
D. fewer chances of doing the housework
5. From this passage we know ________.
A. women have the same rights as men today
B. women don't want to work outside their homes
C. more and more women want to play an active role in their countries
D. in the Middle East countries all the women stay at home
