1、I _______ a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.
A.long for
B.eager for
C.am long for
D.is eager for
2、I _______ have the small one than the big one.
A.prefer to
B.would rather
C.would like to
D.would rather to
3、We’ll go and _______ where conditions are hardest.
A.settle up
B.settle back
C.settle down
D.settle upon
4、The reporter is doing a _______ of public attitudes.
A.investigation
B.survey
C.examination
D.measurement
5、It _______ me that I didn’t have time to do more reading.
A.bored
B.bothers
C.annoyed
D.delighted
6、She was not going to _______ her hard-won freedom so easily.
A.give up
B.give in
C.persist in
D.give way to
7、People here have a more relaxed _______ to their work.
A.mood
B.action
C.atmosphere
D.attitude
8、You never allow _______ problems to affect your performance.
A.privately
B.intimate
C.personally
D.personal
9、I understand by your talking that you _______ to leave the firm.
A.intend
B.like
C.means
D.wanted
10、You should _______ to improve your reading comprehension.
A.give in
B.change your mind
C.make an effort
D.get ready
11、The government has got to find some way to _______ these two needs.
A.balance
B.mix
C.break
D.throughout
12、Several pairs of shoes were tried on, but none of them were _______.
A.satisfied
B.satisfactory
C.satisfying
D.satisfaction
13、Our income has got smaller. so we must be _______ and give up our car.
A.negative
B.passive
C.optimistic
D.realistic
14、After my lecture, the questions asked by the students began to _______ me.
A.overwhelm
B.overlook
C.overcome
D.overtake
15、Getting your _______ in order is a good way not to waste energy on meaningless things.
A.potentials
B.privileges
C.prejudices
D.priorities
16、What’s the concrete and realistic goal of the modern women?
A.They don’t want to work as hard as their mother’s generation.
B.They want to “settle down” with their partner by 30 and have their first child a year later.
C.They desire a balance between work and family life.
D.Their goal may be a happy marriage
17、What would some of the modern women like to do after giving the birth of the first child?
A.They intend to give up work and be a full-time mother when they start a family.
B.They want to find someone to marry.
C.They want to send for a baby nursery.
D.They start putting their personal happiness before a big salary or high-powered career.
18、What attitude does the author have towards the change of women’s role?
A.She feels pity that the age of the “superwoman” is dead.
B.She supports the changed role of the modern women’s being a housewife.
C.She takes a neutral attitude to the change of women’s role.
D.She opposed the changed role of the modern women’s be
19、The increasing divorce rate can partly explain the change for the return to traditional lifestyle.
A.True
B.False
20、Modern young women think that they can succeed as easily as their mother did.
A.True
B.False
21、According to young women, their feminist mothers were failures in life and career.
A.True
B.False
22、In modern women’s eyes, domestic happiness is more important than a successful career.
A.True
B.False
23、According to some scholars, today it’s still the times for superwomen.
A.True
B.False
24、What’s the obvious difference in lifestyle between the modern women and the generation of their mothers?
A.Modern women pay more attention to work.
B.Those women’s attitudes toward the role of housewives changed greatly.
C.They don’t pursue what their mothers had done.
D.They agree with the way their mothers had done mostly.
25、Why do modern women not follow their mother’s lifestyle?
A.Their mother’s lifestyle is not realistic.
B.They think the baby nurseries are bad.
C.Because they believe it is very hard for them to deal well with jobs, motherhood and social lives at the same time.
D.They don’t want to have the job and family
