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Men Are Carrying on a Sex-fight
This is supposed to be an enlightened age, but you wouldn’t think of if you could heat what the average man thinks of the average woman/ Women won their independence years ago. After a long, bitter struggle, they now enjoy the same educational opportunities as men in most parts of the world. They have proved repeatedly that they are equal and often superior to men in almost every field. The hard-fought battle for recognition has been won, but it is by no means over. It is men, not women who still carry on the sex war because their attitude remains basically hostile. Even in the most progressive societies, women continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens. To hear some men talk, you’d think that women belonged to a different species!
On the surface, the comments made by men about women’s abilities seem light-hearted. The same tired jokes about women drivers are repeated day in, day out. This apparent light-heartedness dose not conceal the real contempt that men feel for women. However much men sneer at women, their claims to superiority are not borne out by statistics. Let’s consider the matter of driving, for instance. We all know that women cause far fewer accidents than men. They are too conscientious and responsible to drive like maniacs. But this is a minor quibble. Women have succeeded in any job you care to name. As politicians, soldiers, doctors, factory-hands, university professors, farmers, company directors, lawyers, bus-conductors, scientists and presidents of countries they have often put men to shame. And we must remember that they frequently succeed brilliantly in all these fields in addition to bearing and rearing children.
Yet men go on maintaining the fiction that there are many jobs women can’t don Top-level political negotiation between countries, business and banking are almost entirely controlled by men, who jealously guard their so-called ‘rights’. Even in otherwise enlightened places like Switzerland women haven’t even been given the cote. This situation is preposterous! The arguments that men put forward to exclude women from these fields are all too familiar. Women, they say, are unreliable and irrational. They depend too little on cool reasoning and too much on intuition and instinct to arrive at decisions. They are not even capable of thinking clearly. Yet when women prove their abilities, men refuse to acknowledge them and give them their due. So much for a man’s ability to think clearly!
The truth is that men cling to their supremacy because of their basic inferiority complex. They shun real competition. They know in their hearts that women are superior and they are afraid of being beaten at their own game. One of the most important tasks in the world is to achieve peace between the nations. You can be sure that if women were allowed to sit round the conference table, they would succeed brilliantly, as they always do, there men have failed for centuries. Some things are too important to be left to men!
1. What does the first sentence imply?
[A] It is not really an enlightened age. [B] It is different from an enlightened age.
[C] It is the same as an enlightened age. [D] It is like an enlightened age.
2. Why do men carry on the sex war against women?
[A] Because of their inferiority. [B] Because they shun real competition.
[C] Because of their claim to supremacy. [D] Because they still look down upon women.
3. The “fiction” is closest in meaning to
[A] Novel. [B] Man-made idea. [C] False idea. [D] Story.
4. What is the main argument men have raised against women?
[A] Women are lack of cold reasoning. [B] They depend on intuition too much.
[C] They are unreliable and irrational. [C] They are too still look down upon women.
谜底详解：
1. A. 这确实不是一个启蒙时代。(1)这是第一句话语气和言词传递出来的内容。“这个时代应该是一个启蒙时代，可是假如你听到汉子怎么说女人的，你就不会这么认为。”(2)正篇文章也传递了这个信息。
2. C. 他们对登峰造极权威的追求。谜底在最后一段“事实是因为汉子们根基的自卑情感，他们追求登峰造极的权威。他们遁藏真正的竞争。他们心老迈白妇女比他们优异，是以他们害怕在他们自己的‘游戏’中失踪利。”
3. C. 错误不雅概念。Fiction本意为“虚构”，此处上下文抉择此义：“可是汉子们继续坚持这种错误的不雅概念：有良多工作妇女干不了，两国高级政治构和，商业和银行几乎全数为汉子们所节制，他们忌妒地捍卫着他们所谓的权力。”
A. 小说。 D. 故事。 这是fiction两种根基寄义，这里不合错误。 B. 酬报思惟。文中没有这种意义
4. C. 他们不成信，不理智。谜底见第三段“他们把妇女解除这些规模之外，所提出的论点是(众所周知)老调重弹。他们说妇女不成信，不理智。在做决按时，太依靠于直觉和本能。沉着得推理太少。”
A. 他们贫窭沉着的推理。 B. 他们太依靠于直觉，这两项只是本段顶用以诠释“不成信，不理智的。” D. 他们太当真。这是在第二段总提到的内容“我们都知道妇女引起的交通事情比汉子少得多，她们很是当真负责不会像发狂似的开车。”