1．Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do，and home has become much less of a workshop．Clothes can be bought ready made； washing can go to the laundry； food can be bought； cooked，canned or preserved； bread is baked and delivered by the baker； milk arrives on the doorstep； meats can be had at the restaurant，the work's canteen，and the school dining-room．
It is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home，and his children rarely，if ever，see him at his place of work．Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their father's occupation，and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls．The young wage-earner often earns good money，and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence．In textile areas it has long been customary for mothers to go out to work，but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a child's home life，the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years．With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century．When mother works，economic advantages accrue，but children lose something of great value if mother's employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from school．
24．The writer says that home has become much less of a workshop．He meansA．
A．in the past，home was more like a workshop
B．home is much more of a workshop now
C．home-workshops are becoming fewer and fewer
D．home was less like a workshop in the past
25．The chief reason that boys are seldom trained to follow their father's occupation isC．
A．that children nowadays rarely see their fathers at their place of work
B．that fathers do not like to pursue employment at home any more
C．that there is a wide choice of employment for children
D．that children also like to have jobs outside
26．What makes father no longer the only dominant person in a family？A
A．With their earning，mother and children do not need to depend on father for their life．
B．There are many choice of employment for mothers and children．
C．Father does much less for his children today than he used to．
D．The number of married women in employment has increased greatly now．
分析 文章主要講述了一個家庭父母親的工作使孩子失去了應(yīng)有的照顧，以及從業(yè)的變化帶來的許多變化．
解答 24．A 推理判斷題．從第一句Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do?and home become much less of a workshop．和下文所述可知，過去日常生活所需大部分都由自己做，"家"就如a workshop 一樣．
25．C 推理判斷題．由"…in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls．The young wage-earner of-ten earns good money…"在許多城鎮(zhèn)里，他們有相當廣泛的就業(yè)機會，女孩也一樣．十歲的年輕工薪族掙大錢．可知答案為C．
26．A．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第二段"With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century．"．母親掙的錢和大孩子掙的工資太多，父親很少是他本世紀初的主導(dǎo)人物，可知．故選A．
點評 本文是一篇科教類閱讀，題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題，做題時結(jié)合原文和題目有針對 性找出相關(guān)語句進行仔細分析，結(jié)合選項選出正確答案．推理判斷也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確的答案．
