It’s a man’s world, and many women don’t like it.

The women say they are treated like second-class citizens and therefore feel that their anger is justified. Women everywhere, they say, earn less money than men for the same kind of work. Women have less power in their communities than men, and in most cities and towns the political decisions are made by men. There are few women mayors or city officials. The same thing is true in labor unions, and religious groups. Even in unions where the members are almost all women, the heads of the unions are men. The presidents of almost all the big corporations in the country are men. There are few women ministers and no women priests.

Many women have been aware of these inequalities for a long time. Only recently, however, a drive for women’s rights made many more women and men, too, interested in fair treatment for women. Groups have formed to demand equal pay for equal work, changes in abortion laws, and round-the-clock day-care centers for children. Women have even started their own newspapers to fight for their cause. They have written books and marched in parades protesting their second-class place in society.

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Women want to make more money.

B. Women hate the man’s world.

C. Women are organizing to demand their rights.

D. Women’s liberation.

2. What is the important problem explained in this passage?

A. Women have joined protest groups.　　

B. The heads of most unions are men.

C. Women are treated unfairly in their work, communities, and religious groups.

D. Women don’t like men.

3. What is the purpose of this passage?

A. To persuade women to join women’s rights groups.

B. To explain why a drive for women’s rights has started.

C. To explain how it feels to be a woman in a man’s world.

D. To help more women get equal treatment with men.

4. In this passage the words “second-class citizens” mean _______.

A. people who are treated as foreigners

B. people who are not citizens

C. people who are not treated fairly in their life and work　　　

D. people who don’t want to be first-class citizens

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Women don’t like to be treated as second-class citizens.

B. Women make the same amount of money as men for the same kind of work.

C. Men make political decisions in most places in U. S. A.

D. Women started their own newspapers and wrote books to fight for their equal rights.

 

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