C

    After watching my mother deal with our family of five, I can’t understand why answer to the

question, “What do you do?” is always, “Oh, I’m just a housewife.” JUST a housewife?” Anyone who spends most of her time in meal preparation and cleanup, keeping the house clean, attending PTA meetings, leading a scout troop, playing taxi driver to us kids when it’s time for school, musical lessons or the dentist, doing volunteer work for her community is not just a housewife. She’s the real Wonder Woman.

Why is it that so many mothers like mine think of themselves as second．class or something similar? Where has this notion come from? Have we males made them feel this way? Has our society  made“going to work” outside the home seem more important than what a housewife must face each day?  I would be every curious to see what would happen if a housewife went on strike．Dishes would  pie up．Food in the house would run out．There would be no learn clothes when needed．Walking and bus riding would increase．

I doubt if the man of the house would be able to take over．Oh，he would probably start out with the attitude that he can do just as good a job，but how long would that last? Not 1ong, once he had to come home each night after work to more housework. There would be no coming home to a prepared meal; The kids would all be screaming for something to eat, clean clothes and more bus fare money. Once he quieted the kids, he’d have to clean the house, go shopping, make sure that kids got a bath, after clearing out all the dog hairs from the bathtub. Once the kids were down for the night, he might be able to craw（爬）into an unmade bed and try to read the morning newspaper.

64．What does the writer’s mother NOT do according to the first paragraph?

       A．Cooking.             B．Tidying the house.  

       C．Driving a taxi.         D．Some unpaid work.

65．The underlined word “notion” in the second paragraph can be replaced by the word        .

       A．mother     B．citizen      C．similarity  D．thought

66．We can learn from the second paragraph        .

       A．mothers are actually great women  B．our society looks down upon housewives

       C．housewives should go on a strike    D．doing housework is not important at all

67．The possible main idea of the third paragraph is        .

       A．men should share housework with their wives

       B．a(chǎn)ttitude is not the only thing needed to do a job well

       C．kids are the most challenging part of the housework

       D．men are unlikely to handle the work of a housewife

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d.The company peaked as the world’s largest department store chain

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