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　　On the other hand, if she can find fulfillment through work outside the home, work andmarriage can go together to create a stronger and more stable union.

　　Also, a major part of women’s inequality in marriage has been due to the fact that, in mostcases, men have remained the main breadwinners. With higher earning capacity and statusoccupations outside of the home comes the capacity to exercise power within the family. Aworking wife may rob a husband of being the master of the house. Depending upon how thecouple reacts to these new conditions, it could create a stronger equal partnership or it couldcreate new insecurities.

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　　26. The word “portend” (Line 2, Para. 1) is closest in meaning to “________”.

　　A) defy

　　B) signal

　　C) suffer from

　　D) result from(B)

　　27. It is said in the passage that when the economy slides, ________.

　　A) men would choose working women as their marriage partners

　　B) more women would get married to seek financial security

　　C) even working women would worry about their marriages

　　D) more people would prefer to remain single for the time being(D)

　　28. If women find fulfillment through work outside the home, ________.

　　A) they are more likely to dominate their marriage partners

　　B) their husbands are expected to do more housework

　　C) their marriage ties can be strengthened

　　D) they tend to put their career before marriage(C)

　　29. One reason why women with no career may seek a divorce is that ________.

　　A) they feel that they have been robbed of their freedom

　　B) they are afraid of being bossed around by their husbands

　　C) they feel that their partners fail to live up to their expectations

　　D) they tend to suspect their husbands’ loyalty to their marriage(A)

　　30. Which of the following statements can best summarize the author’s view in thepassage?

　　A) The stability of marriage and the divorce rate may reflect the economic situation of thecountry.

　　B) Even when economically independent, most women have to struggle for real equality inmarriage.

　　C) In order to secure their marriage women should work outside the home and remainindependent.

　　D) The impact of the growing female workforce on marriage varies from case to case.

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　　26. B 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D

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　　For most thinkers since the Greek philosophers, it was self-evident that the re is somethingcalled human nature, something that constitutes the essence of man. There were various viewsabout what constitutes it, but there was agreement that such an essence exists—that is to say,that there is something by virtue of which man is man. Thus man was defined as a rationalbeing, as a social animal, an animal that can make tools, or a symbol-making animal.

　　More recently, this traditional view has begun to be questioned. One reason for this changewas the increasing emphasis given to the historical approach to man. An examination of thehistory of humanity suggested that man in our epoch is so different from man in previoustimes that it seemed unrealistic to assume that men in every age have had in commonsomething that can be called “human nature.” The historical approach was reinforced,particularly in the United States, by studies in the field of cultural anthropology (人類學(xué)). Thestudy of primitive peoples has discovered such a diversity of customs, values, feelings, andthoughts that many anthropologists arrived at the concept that man is born as a blank sheet ofpaper on which each culture writes its text. Another factor contributing to the tendency todeny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abusedas a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed. In the name of humannature, for example, Aristotle and most thinkers up to the eighteenth century defendedslavery. Or in order to prove the rationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society,scholars have tried to make a case for acquisitiveness, competitiveness, and selfishness asinnate (天生的) human traits. Popularly, one refers cynically to “human nature” in accepting theinevitability of such undesirable human behavior as greed, murder, cheating and lying.

　　Another reason for skepticism about the concept of human nature probably lies in theinfluence of evolutionary thinking. Once man came to be seen as developing in the process ofevolution, the idea of a substance which is contained in his essence seemed untenable.Yet I believe it is precisely from an evolutionary standpoint that we can expect new insightinto the problem of the nature of man.

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　　31. The traditional view of “human nature” was strongly challenged by ________.

　　A) the emergence of the evolutionary theory

　　B) the historical approach to man

　　C) new insight into human behavior

　　D) the philosophical analysis of slavery(A)

　　32. According to the passage, anthropologists believe that human beings ________.

　　A) have some traits in common

　　B) are born with diverse cultures

　　C) are born without a fixed nature

　　D) change their characters as they grow up(C)

　　33. The author mentioned Aristotle, a great ancient thinker, in order to ________.

　　A) emphasize that he contributed a lot to defining the concept of “human nature”

　　B) show that the concept of “human nature” was used to justify social evils

　　C) prove that he had a profound influence on the concept of “human nature”

　　D) support the idea that some human traits are acquired(D)

　　34. The word “untenable” (Line 3) in the last paragraph of the passage most probablymeans ________.

　　A) invaluable

　　B) imaginable

　　C) changeable

　　D) indefensible(D)

　　35. Most philosophers believed that human nature ________.

　　A) is the quality distinguishing man from other animals

　　B) consists of competitiveness and selfishness

　　C) is something partly innate and partly acquired

　　D) consists of rationality and undesirable behavior

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　　31. A 32. C 33. D 34. D 35. A