高等教育 / 新发展英语综合教程（二）
Equal pay for equal work is a phrase used by the American women who feel that are looked down upon by society. They say it is for women to be paid less than men for the same work.
People who hold the opposite opinion （mainly men） have an answer to this. They say that men have more responsibility than women; a married man is expected to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, and therefore it is right for men to be paid more. There are some people who hold even stronger opinion than this and are against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full time job, they will be unable to do the things. Women are best at making a comfortable home and bringing up children. They will have to give up their present position in society.
This is exactly what they want to give up, the women who disagree say. They want to escape from the limited place which society expects them to fill and to have freedom to choose between a job and home life, or mixture of the two. Women have the right of equal pay and equal opportunities.
These women have expressed their opinions forcefully by using the famous saying, "All men are created equal." They point out that the meaning of this sentence is "all human being are created equal."
People who hold the opposite opinion （mainly men） have an answer to this. They say that men have more responsibility than women; a married man is expected to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, and therefore it is right for men to be paid more. There are some people who hold even stronger opinion than this and are against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full time job, they will be unable to do the things. Women are best at making a comfortable home and bringing up children. They will have to give up their present position in society.
This is exactly what they want to give up, the women who disagree say. They want to escape from the limited place which society expects them to fill and to have freedom to choose between a job and home life, or mixture of the two. Women have the right of equal pay and equal opportunities.
These women have expressed their opinions forcefully by using the famous saying, "All men are created equal." They point out that the meaning of this sentence is "all human being are created equal."
- (1)The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to demand that _ _ _ _ _ .（2分）
- A、woman''s work shouldn''t be harder than men''s
- B、men should be paid less than women
- C、people doing harder work should earn more
- D、men and women should be paid the same amount of money for the same work
- (2)What exactly do the women who disagree want to give up?（2分）
- A、Their job
- B、Their home life
- C、Their right to pay
- D、Their present position in society
- (3)People who disagree with women's opinions believe _ _ _ _ _ .（2分）
- A、women can''t do what men can
- B、men can earn money more easily than women
- C、men''s responsibilities are different from women''s
- D、men have to work much harder than women
- (4)The women use the saying "all men created equal" to show that _ _ _ .（2分）
- A、the position of women has changed a little in modern time
- B、in American society men and women should in modern time
- C、men''s right are always considered more important than women''s
- D、men and women had equal power in early American society
- (5)The women who disagree say that _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .（2分）
- A、if women are given equal pay, their opportunities will be greater
- B、women are no longer interested in taking care of their homes
- C、women want more freedom in deciding the kind of life they live
- D、women need opportunities to go out of the house more often
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