The increase in divorce rates follows to the increase in women working outside the home. Yet, it may be wrong to jump to any simple cause-and-effect conclusions. The impact of a wife’s work on divorce is no less cloudy than its impact on marriage decisions. The realization that she can be a good provider may increase the chances that a working wife will choose divorce over an unsatisfactory marriage. But the reverse is equally plausible(似是而非的). Tensions grounded in financial problems often play a key role in ending a marriage. By raising a family’s standard of living, a working wife may strengthen her family’s financial and emotional stability.
Psychological factors also should be considered. For example, a wife blocked from a career outside the home may feel caged in the house. She may view her only choice as seeking a divorce. On the other hand, if she can find fulfillment through work outside the home, work and marriage can go together to create a stronger and more stable union.
Also, a major part of women’s inequality in marriage has been due to the fact that, in most cases, men have remained the main breadwinners. A working wife may rob a husband of being the master of the house. Depending upon how the couple reacts to these new conditions, it could create a stronger equal partnership or it could create new insecurities.
1. It is said in the passage that when the economy falls_____
A.men would choose working women as their marriage partners |
B.more women would get married to seek financial security |
C.even working women would worry about their marriages |
D.more people would prefer to remain single for the time being |
A.they are more likely to dominate their marriage partners |
B.their husbands are expected to do more housework |
C.their marriage ties can be strengthened |
D.they tend to put their career before marriage |
A.they feel that they have been robbed of their freedom |
B.they are afraid of being bossed around by their husbands |
C.they feel that their partners fail to live up to their expectations |
D.they tend to suspect their husbands loyalty to their marriage |
A.The stability of marriage and the divorce rate may reflect the economic situation of the country |
B.Even when economically independent, most women have to struggle for real equality in marriage |
C.In order to secure their marriage women should work outside the home and remain independent |
D.The impact of the growing female workforce on marriage varies from case to case. |
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That may seem a strange thing to say.But touching things can help you to see them better.
Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round.But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is.You can feel how heavy the glass is.When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it.
With your skin, you can feel better.For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pockets.You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too.
You can even feel sounds against your skin.Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music.
All children soon learn what “Don’t touch!” means.They hear it often.Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up.In shops, we often have to touch things before we buy them.
The bottoms of our feet can feel things, too.You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or a hard floor.All feel different under your feet.
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling.One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin.Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin……
Most museums are just for looking.But today some museums have some things to touch.Their signs say, “Do touch!” There you can feel everything on show.
1. By touching things,___________.
A.you will have a strange feeling |
B.you will learn how to reach out |
C.you can see things better |
D.you can tell what colors they are |
A.Touching by Feeling |
B.To See or to Feel |
C.Seeing by Feeling |
D.Seeing Is Believing |
A.try them on first |
B.put their right hand on them |
C.just have a look |
D.feel and touch them |
【推荐2】Popular people are admired and loved by their peers (同龄人).
Avoid offering help in exchange for approval (认可). Trying to be helpful will have the opposite effect.
Be the glue in your social circle. When you have plans to meet a group of friends for a social outing, make a habit of inviting someone who hasn’t met everyone in the group yet. If you re hanging out with a friend and run into another friend, remember to introduce them to each other.
Practice positivity. People who often complain about life and are more pessimistic have fewer friends. Therefore, it’s important to have a positive attitude and avoid constant complaining.
A.Build relationships at work place and school. |
B.Otherwise, your friends might feel awkward. |
C.Make sure you are popular with your friends. |
D.You’ll be regarded as people who need friendship. |
E.And many people want to be associated with popular people. |
F.However, sometimes sharing your problems with others is a good thing. |
G.Peers have a special gift that enables them to make friends wherever they go. |
【推荐3】Romantic attachment is one of the best predictors of happiness that social scientists have identified. For example, my review of the General Social Survey finds that although 27 percent of married Americans said they were “very happy” with their lives, only 11 percent of those respondents who were never married, divorced, separated, or widowed answered this way. And research in the Journal of Research in Personality has shown that marriage can protect happiness in adulthood.
These findings may help explain the well-documented decline in American happiness, especially among young adults. The percentage of adults who are currently married has fallen from almost 70 in 1960 to about 50 today. The solution to the happiness deficit (赤字) — for the nation as well as among individuals — is simply to encourage more people to pair off. However, a closer look at the singles trend suggests that the problem is not a lack of available partners, but that young adults may unintentionally be avoiding romantic attachment.
Psychologists commonly measure the health of attachment through two dimensions: anxiety and avoidance the latter meaning a resistance to intimacy (亲密). To score lower on each dimension is better. An insecure bond can involve someone being anxious but not avoidant, avoidant but not anxious, or both, while secure attachment is on the other hand. Unfortunately, insecure attachment is becoming more and more common. Over the past two decades, successive groups of studied college students have shown an increasing likelihood of experiencing one of the insecure styles. One particular insecure style-avoidance-is associated with a greater preference for singlehood. That tells us that the underlying problem is chiefly one of greater avoidance.
The popularity of avoidant attachment is a more reasonable explanation for the increase in unhappiness among young adults than their simply being uncoupled. After all, we also know that singlehood can make some people happier, and that a bad romantic partnership is clearly worse than no relationship at all. But in contrast to that mixed picture, many studies show that avoidant attachment is associated with lower satisfaction with life.
So what is causing this mass romantic avoidance? Two psychologists provided clues in a paper published in 2022 that was based on surveys of university students in Cyprus, including what led them to prefer being single. Strongly predictive of singledom, the researchers found, was not only a preoccupation with work and career but also the wide spread of so-called Dark Triad(narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy). In other words, people may avoid romantic commitment if they are especially self-centered or work-focused.
1. What does the author think of the solution to happiness decline?A.It hits the target. | B.It barks up the wrong tree. |
C.It cuts to the chase. | D.It gets to the bottom. |
A.It is anxious but not intimate. | B.It is both intimate and anxious. |
C.It is neither anxious nor avoidant. | D.It is neither anxious nor intimate. |
A.The benefits of romantic partnership. |
B.The popularity of insecure attachment. |
C.The explanation for avoidant attachment. |
D.The cause for declining happiness among young adults. |
A.pressure of job hunting | B.level of education |
C.different occupations | D.personal characteristics |
About a year ago,NASA offered $125 ,000 to Anjan Contractor, a 3-D technology expert,to build a device(设备)that would allow astronauts to make pizza on demand. The mechanical engineer promised that his invention would produce pies in large quantities that looked, tasted and even smelled like pizza made in common ovens.
Late last year, the engineer presented a video of his first prototype(原型)that begins by creating a single slice of dough(面团)that is cooked and printed at the same time.Then comes the tomato “sauce” — a mix of tomato powder,oil and water and finally,a protein slice that resembles cheese.While the video doesn’t show the baking process,the inventor says that once the pizza is printed,it can be ready to be consumed in 7 seconds.
While the pie in the video looks delicious enough to attract any pizza lover,Anjan Contractor is far from ready for astronauts.That’s because he still has to find a solution to make the food container in the printer last for 30 years.Though that may sound unrealistic,actually it is not.
Anjan Contractor believes that the only way that is possible is that the water is removed from all the ingredients(配料)and then they are reduced to the powder form.This,as you can imagine,will not be so easy.But,while the printer may not be ready for space,it certainly looks ready enough for people on earth.Hopefully,NASA and Contractor will consider selling it to those not fortunate enough to go to Mars!
1. Why does the author mention the things that astronauts in space cannot do?
A.To ask us not to take common things for granted. |
B.To show they live a difficult life there. |
C.To show their life is boring in space. |
D.To introduce the topic of the text. |
A.create some new type of 3-D printer |
B.attract more companies to work for NASA |
C.help astronauts in space enjoy fresh pizza one day |
D.produce pizza in large quantities to earn great profits |
A.he has no money left to go on with his research |
B.the pizza doesn’t seem appetizing to pizza lovers |
C.he has no way to make pizza that can last for thirty years |
D.he cannot make the food container last for decades |
A.NASA is trying its best to help astronauts eat better |
B.Astronauts may soon be able to enjoy steaming hot pizza |
C.NASA is working on making pizza for common people |
D.A 3-D pizza printer has been used to make pizza |
【推荐2】What will astronauts wear in more than 50 years? A brand-new spacesuit is developing.
Called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EEMU), the spacesuit protects astronauts from the tough environment of the lunar surface, which is quite different from that astronauts have been exploring for the past few decades in low Earth orbit.
Progress on the suit has been overshadowed(使不快乐). “The EEMU represents the first new spacesuit that NASA has developed in over 40 years, George Nield, previously the associate administrator for commercial space transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration, said. “So far, it looks like things are pretty on schedule.”
Nield outlined the agency’s plan to build five EEMU suits in the initial (最初的)group. One for design tests is almost done and should be completed in December. A second will be built for qualification testing and a third will be tested in orbit on the International Space Station. The final two suits of the set will walk on the moon in 2024 on a mission called Artemis 3.
In addition to the main spacesuits, each astronaut will also require an internal cooling garment (衣服), and NASA has now completed the first prototype of that undergarment, according to Nield. And the agency also needs to upgrade the backpack—like Portable Life Support System that astronauts carry to stay alive.
Meanwhile, NASA got a sense of how the new suit will perform on the moon by testing the design underwater. Underwater, astronauts can get a feel for moving around in a spacesuit and using the tools they will operate during a spacewalk. Lately, NASA has been using the pool to study movements like collecting moon rock and dust, navigating a ladder and planting a flag in the lunar surface.
1. Why does the author ask a question at the beginning of the text?A.To make readers think. |
B.To put forward the topic of the text. |
C.To seek for some information. |
D.To exchange opinions with readers. |
A.Satisfied. | B.Disappointed. | C.Puzzled. | D.Shocked. |
A.Sample. | B.Copy. | C.Test. | D.Design. |
A.By testing it in the lab. |
B.By learning from other scientists. |
C.By testing it underwater. |
D.By comparing it with other spacesuits. |
【推荐3】Book Your Field Trip to Pacific Science Center
A field trip to Pacific Science Center is a time-honored tradition for students of all ages across Washington State. Our hands-on exhibits, shows, and creative programs inspire students’ curiosity for science in a day of exploration meant to strengthen your curriculum and fuel lifelong enthusiasm for science, math, engineering and technology.
Schedule (安排) Your Field TripTo schedule your field trip, complete the registration request form available at the link www.pacificsciencecenter.org/field-tripsl/, or call (206) 443-2925 Monday — Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. not less than two weeks ahead of your visit date. We will contact you within two business days to set up your field trip.
New Fall/winter HoursStarting September 3, 2019 PacSci will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays except for holidays and weeks during Seattle Public School breaks. We will no longer be booking field trips on those days, as well.
PricingField Trip Package | Price Per Student | |
Exhibits Only | $9 | |
Package 1 | Exhibits plus choice of one experiences | $11 |
Package 2 | Exhibits plus choice of two experiences | $13 |
Package 3 | Exhibits plus choice of three experiences | $15 |
One free adult general admission is covered for every 10 paid students. Free adult admission doesn’t include IMAX documentary. These adults will be charged a $4 IMAX documentary admission. Additional adults outside of the ratio (比例) will be charged the student admission rate. Pacific Science Center Memberships cannot be applied to field trips. Payment is due one week before you visit.
Available Experiences■ Planetarium Shows
■ IMAX Documentaries
■ Science on a Sphere Shows
■ Laser Shows
1. What can we know about Pacific Science Center?A.It is famous for its typical architecture. |
B.It offers students chances for free classes. |
C.It’s where students can learn about science. |
D.It is only accessible to students in Washington. |
A.$118. | B.$125. |
C.$127. | D.$134. |
A.On weekends. |
B.Any Monday or Tuesday. |
C.Two workdays ahead of the visit time. |
D.At least 14 days before the actual visit. |