Question

Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect,because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty (新奇的) value,like toys for adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine,but the time saved does not really amount to much：the machine has to be watched,the clothes have to be carefully sorted out first,stains removed by hand,buttons pushed and water changed,clothes taken out,aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive,since no capital in?vestment 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 the woman in the women's magazine with the goods advertised by those periodicals,one realizes how useful a projected im?age can be commercially. A careful balance has to be struck; if you show a laboursaving de?vice,follow it up with a complicated 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,empha?sizing 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 homebaked flavour the family love"，and knitting patterns that can be made by hand,or worse still,on knitting machines,which became tremendously fashionable when they were first introduced. Automatic cookers are advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park,not by professional women presetting (預(yù)先設(shè)置) the dinner before leaving home for work.

(   ) 1. What does the underlined word " eliminating" mean?

   A. Wiping out. B. Doing away with. C. Throwing out. D. Carring off.

(   ) 2. What is the shortcoming of the home electric goods advertised as liberating the mod?ern women according to the author?

   A. They have absolutely no value for the housewives.

   B. They really save the housewife very little time.

   C. They save the housewife's time but not her money.

   D. The can remove unpleasant aspects of housework.

(   ) 3. In the writer's opinion,the goods advertised in women's magazines are really meant to         .

   A. free housewives from housework

   B. encourage housewives to go out to work

   C. make housewives into excellent cooks

   D. give them a false sense of fulfillment

(   ) 4. What is the main meaning of this passage?

   A. Consuming anything just relying on the basic need not the advertising.

   B. Tremendous fashion can't bring you a certain novelty value.

   C. Advertising is reliable and always describes things true to the fact.

   D. Women have to redouble their efforts to get the real liberation.

Answer 1

 BBDA

廣告以非常誘人的方式向消費(fèi)者生動(dòng)地展示其產(chǎn)品，而這大多數(shù)都是華而不實(shí)。

1. B詞義猜測(cè)題。 wipe out消滅，徹底摧毀； do away with廢除，去掉;throw out扔出，拋出(次品) ；carry off帶走，奪去。

2. B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。家用電器具有一定的、新穎的價(jià)值，但是并不能節(jié)省多少時(shí)間。故選 B.

3. D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。廣告利用了家庭主婦的心理弱點(diǎn)，給她們?cè)斐闪艘环N虛假的滿足感。故選項(xiàng)D為正確答案。

4. A主題判斷題。不論男女，購(gòu)物是出于需要而不是看廣告如何宣傳。其他選項(xiàng)不符合本文。