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As working women continue to receive better and better wages, housewives still work at home without receiving paychecks. Should a woman who works at home, doing the housework and caring for children, be paid for her services In a 1986 study at Cornell University, it was found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $11,600 is what the husband would have to pay if he hired others to take over his wife’s household work. The researchers concluded that it would be fair for husbands to pay wives according to government guidelines (方针) for least amounts of wages.
Another plan for rewarding women who work at home has been suggested by Dr. Johnson, a former Secretary of Health and Human Services. He says that full-time housewives should be allowed to pay social security taxes (社会保障金), with their employers (that is, their husbands) offering part of the payment. He feels that the present system is unfair. He said, "If you work in a store you can qualify fo
A. Because husbands are employers.
B. Because raising a family needs money.
C. Because wives’ work at home has its value.
D. Because wives can’t qualify for Social Security.

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As working women continue to receive better and better wages, housewives still work at home without receiving paychecks. Should a woman who works at home, doing the housework and caring for children, be paid for her services In a 1986 study at Cornell University, it was found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $11,600 is what the husband would have to pay if he hired others to take over his wife’s household work. The researchers concluded that it would be fair for husbands to pay wives according to government guidelines (方针) for least amounts of wages.
Another plan for rewarding women who work at home has been suggested by Dr. Johnson, a former Secretary of Health and Human Services. He says that full-time housewives should be allowed to pay social security taxes (社会保障金), with their employers (that is, their husbands) offering part of the payment. He feels that the present system is unfair. He said, "If you work in a store you can qualify fo
A. the same pay as those doing housework
B. as much as their husbands
C. an average payment of $11,600 a year
D. more and more money

[填空题]Mike was too tired to continue working．
Mike was so tired ______ he couldn’t continue working．

[单项选择]Men are generally better than women on tests of spatial ability, such as mentally rotating an object through three dimensions or finding their way around in a new environment. But a new study suggests that under some circumstances a woman’s way of navigating is probably more efficient.
Luis Pacheco-Cobos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and his colleagues discovered this by following mushroom gatherers from a village in the state of Tlaxcala for two rainy seasons. Two researchers, each fitted with GPS navigation devices and heart-rate monitors, followed different gatherers on different days. They recorded the weight of the mushrooms each gatherer collected and where they visited. The GPS data allowed a map to be made of the routes taken and the heart-rate measurements provided an estimate of the amount of energy expended during their travels.
The results, to be published in Evolution and Human Behavior, show that the men and women collected on average about the
A. men are generally better than women on tests of spatial ability
B. in certain circumstances women have some special abilities
C. men tend to do more hunting
D. women tend to do more gathering

[简答题] THE WORKING WOMEN
You are to write in three parts:
In the first part, state clearly your viewpoint.
In the second part, support your view with one or two reasons.
In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

[填空题]Working women don’t have enough time to prepare three meals a day so that families depend on traditional frozen food.

[填空题]Laura Bush believes that if women cannot receive education, they cannot make contribution to the society.

[填空题]With better working conditions, businesses are more (like) （） to hire more employees.