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PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION

Section A (60 minute, 30 points)

Directions: Below each of the following passages you will find some questions or incomplete statements Each question or statement is followed by four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Read each passage carefully, and the select the choice that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark the letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

Passage One

Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, does not lack courage, it rebounded from two world wars, digested reunification and has new powered ahead of neighbors still reeling from the financial crisis. It overhauled a rigid labor market and raised the retirement age to 67 with little fuss. Most recently, it simply decided to abandon nuclear power. With this boldness at the top comes obedience at the bottom--82 million Germans will wait at a pedestrian red light even with no car in sight.

But when it comes to empowering women, no Teutonic drive or respect seems to work--even under one of the world's most powerful women, Chancellor Angela Merkel.Despite a batch of government measures and ever more passionate debate about gender roles, only about 14 percent of German mothers with one child resume full-time work, and only 6 percent of those with two, all 30 German stock index companies are run by men. Nationwide, a single

woman presides on a supervisory board: Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah at Henkel.

Eighteen months after the International Herald Tribune launched a series on the state of women in the 21st century with a look at Germany, the country has emerged as a test case for the push-and-pull of economics and tradition.

　For the developed world, Germany's situation suggests that puzzling out how to remove enduring barriers to women's further progress is one of the hardest questions to solve.

In all European countries, from the traditionally macho southern rim to more egalitarian Nordic rations, the availability and affordability of child care, intertwined with traditional ideas about gender roles, have proved key factors in determining gender equality. The nature of male networks is mother telling factor.

Women remain a striking minority in top corporate circles, even in fiercely egalitarian countries like Sweden or the US where opportunities often go with one's abilities. Very few countries approach 20 percent female representation on corporate executive boards.

Yet if Swedish executive suites boast 17 percent women and the united Slates and Britain 14 percent, in Germany it is 2 percent-as in India, according to McKinsey's 2010 Women Matter report.

One of the countries in most need of female relate-the German birthrate is among the lowest in Europe and labor shortages in skilled technical professions are already 150.00-

Germany is a place where gender stereotypes remain engrailed in the mind, and in key institutions across society.

36. The first two paragraphs describe______.

A.practical Germ leadership in various fields

B.retired Gamin workers' lives

C.a successful Germany since World War I

D.a German style of dealing with crises

37. According to the author, under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel______.

A.females must have been allowed to take some full-time jobs

B.women might have been supported to become stronger

C.discussions should have been held about woman's importance

D.women should have become more powerful than they are now

38. The author mentions Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah in order to show______.

A.the potential for females to become Sop executives

B.the scarcity of female CEO in the country

C.the inferiority of female CEO to male ones

D.the strength of a company led by a female

39. The phrase "the push-and-pull of economics and tradition" (in paragraph 5) refersto the fact that______.

A.economic progress needs efforts by both genders

B.traditional gender roles remain in modem society

C.economic needs conflict with traditional mindsets

D.traditional gender bias makes an economy even worse

40 Which of the following situations forms a barrier to European woman's progress?

A.A woman may feel very proud with all her colleagues being male.

B.A babysitter may find it very hard to make the hostess satisfied.

C.Man's friendship is thought to be much strange than woman's.

D.Women are deemed more capable than men only at home.

41 By writing this passage, the author aims to suggest that in Germany the improvement of woman's social rotes is

______.

A. essential

B. debatable

C. hopeless

D. formidable

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德国作为欧洲的经济驱动，一直都富有勇气。它从二战迅速复苏，并在许多方面领先与其他国家。然而，对于女性地位的发展一直停滞不前。文章从很多方面对此现象进行了阐述，并暗示德国的女权发展是必要的。

【华慧独家解析：参考答案】

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