大学英语四级
单选题The moral decline of American society is caused mainly by ______.A its growing wealthB the self-centeredness of individualsC underestimating the impact of social changesD the prejudice against women and minorities
题目
its growing wealth
the self-centeredness of individuals
underestimating the impact of social changes
the prejudice against women and minorities
相似问题和答案
第1题：
Parallelism is used in ________.
A、It is women who can bring empathy, tolerance, insight, patience, and persistence to government …
B、The women of a nation mold its moral, its religions, and its politics by the lives they live.
C、Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
D、“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
第2题：
We did not foresee the powerful social networking side of the（）and its rapidly growing impact on our society.
A．IP B．Internet C．protocol D．TV
第3题：
According to the text, the cost increase in the rail industry is mainly caused by
A. the continuing acquisition.
B. the growing traffic.
C. the cheering Wall Street.
D. the shrinking market.
第4题：
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.
What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
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B．The social mechanization would "aftct women's lives.
C．The social status of women has changed.
D．Observers have different ideas about the effect of social mechanizatiou.
第5题：
Wal-Mart has been criticized by some groups for its .（ ）
[A] low service quality
[B] employees' low salary
[C] high pressure on the other companies
[D] discrimination against women
第6题：
A. students’ cooking skills
B. the country’s language policy
C. social-cultural factors
D. society’ attitudes toward the target language
第7题：
Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right because ______.
A. they have different styles of life
B. they hate each other
C. parents think that their children are troublemakers
D. they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
本题属推理分析题。文章中间的“But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values”表
明：在一社会和道德价值迅速变化的社会里，父母与孩子常常争吵。
第8题：
Passage Four
Equal pay for equal work is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are looked down upon by the society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work.
People who hold the opposite opinion(mainly men)have an answer to this. They say that men have more responsibility than women; a married man is expected to earn money to support his family and to make important decisions, and therefore it is right for men to be paid more. There are some people who hold even stronger opinion than this and are against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time job, they will be unable to do the things they are supposed to. Women are best at making a comfortable home and bringing up children. They will have to give up their present position in society.
"This is exactly what they want to give up, "the women who disagree say. "They want to escape from the limited place which society expects them to fill, and to have freedom to choose between a job and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the right of equal pay and equal opportunities."
These women have expressed their opinions forcefully by using the famous saying, "All men are created equal." They point out that the meaning of this sentence is "all human beings are created equal."
48. The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to demand that______.
A. women's work shouldn't be harder than men's
B. men should be paid less than women
C. people doing harder work should earn more
D. men and women should be paid the same amount of money for the same work
48．答案为A 此题为词汇题。“同工同酬”的意义解释。
第9题：
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the UK.
B. The whole society should pay attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people.
C. Even the able-bodied may lose some of their body functions when they get older.
D. There still exists prejudice against the disabled which results mainly from ignorance.
44．答案为D。用排除法，选项D与第四段第四句prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all不符。选项A在第二段第一句提到；选项B在最后一段最后一句提到；选项C在第三段第三句提到。
第10题：
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
B.Disagreement with and argument about conditions tend to slow down social change.
C.Social change is more likely to occur in the material aspect of society.
D.Social change is less likely to occur in what people learned when they were young.