1. Women's place, some people think, is the protective environment of the home because .

A. women can provide better care for the children

B. women are too weak to do any agricultural work at all

C. women are biologically suited to domestic jobs

D. women can not compete with men in any field

2. According to the author, sex roles .

A. are socially determined

B. are emotionally and physically determined

C. can only be determined by what education people take

D. are biologically and psychologically determined

3. The author points out that the assignments of women's roles in work .

A. are determined by what they are better suited to

B. grow out of their position inside the home

C. reflect a basic difference between men and women

D. are suitable to them, but not to men

4. The author will probably agree with .

A. certain sociologists ' prediction that woman are picking up more responsibility in the decades to come

B. historian's general denial of women's contribution towards human thoughts

C. Nietzsche's contemplation about difference between sexes

D. entrepreneurs favoring particular sex when hiring employee

5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The division of sex-defined roles is completely unacceptable.

B. Women's roles in work is too limited at present.

C. In one society, men might perform what is considered women's duties by another.

D. Some of the women's roles in domestic duties can not be taken over by men.

Vocabulary

1.ideology n. 意识形态，思维方式

2.destiny n. 命运，定数

3.domestic adj. 家庭的，国内的

4.homemaker n. 家庭主妇

5.competitive adj. 竞争的，竞争性的

6.elementary school 小学

7.informal adj. 非正式的，不拘礼节的

8.reflection n. 反映，反省，反射

9.ample adj. 充足的，丰富的