专业英语八级词汇语法考生拟试题(1)
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Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on.Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Many of the aids which are advertised as liberating the modem woman tend to have the opposite effect,because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value,like toys for adults. It is (36 )less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really37too much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted first, stains38by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a(39)and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of domesticated woman fostered by the women’s magazines with the goods advertised by those periodicals, advertising which finances them, one realizes how useful a projected image can be in commerce. A careful (40) has to be struck: if you show a labor-saving gadget, follow it up with a(41)recipe on the next page; on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness,(42) the creative aspect of her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg herself, to produce "that lovely home-baked(43)the family love",and knitting patterns that can be made by hand, or worse still, on knitting machines, which became a tremendous vogue when they were first(44) (difficult to know who would wear all those rapidly produced sweaters, which lacked the advantages of hand-made woolens). Automatic cookers are advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park, not by(45)women presetting the dinner before catching a bus to the office. A. laundry B. exaggerate C . emphasize D. certainly E. indignant F. removed G. amount H. excessively I. complicated J. handled K. flavor L. professional M. introduced N. calculation O. balance 广告上所说的许多可以解放现代妇女的辅助设备往往会产生相反的效果，因为它们只是改变了劳动的性质而并没有消除劳动。机器有某种新颖的价值，就像成年人的玩具一样。把衣服放进洗衣机[36]确实可以轻松些，但所节省出的时间[37]总量却实在没有太多：机器需要有人看着，先得把衣服认真分好类。用手把污渍[38]洗掉，还得按按钮、换水，然后取出衣物、晾干、熨平。 把所有衣服打包送到[39]洗衣房反而更加省事，而且也未必更贵，因为不需要任何资本投资。同样.如果你真的想节约时间，你就不会用电动搅拌机来做蛋糕，而是去商店里买。如果你将女性杂志所培育出来的居家女性形象与那些给它们提供经费的期刊、广告里所宣传的商品相比较的话，你就会意识到树立形象在商业上是多么有用。你需要小心地建立一种[40]平衡：如果你展示了一个省力的小器具，那么，紧接着下一页就要展示一个[41]复杂的要诀;绝不能做出这种暗示，即女人可以找到一份工作，而是要培养她自身的价值意识，[42]强调她作为家庭主妇时富有创意的一面。因此，我们准备好现成的蛋糕粉，烹饪者只要自己加个鸡蛋进去就能做出“那种家人喜爱的、诱人的家庭烘焙的[43]风味”。还有可以手工编织的图案，或者更糟糕的是，可以用编织机织出的编织图案，而在编织机刚被[44]引进时，这些东西十分流行(很难知道谁会穿上那些迅速生产出来的毛衣，它们缺乏手工编织的毛织物的优势)。自动化炊具的广告图片上是美丽的年轻母亲带着孩子到公园玩，而不是[45]职业女性在赶公交车土班前预先准备好晚饭的场景。 相关资料 |
