For most people, life is easier and more comfortable than ever before. Convenience foods from the supermarket simplify shopping and cooking. Household appliances like the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine have taken the drudgery out of housework. Released from these household chores, many wives have found jobs outside the home. Women are achieving economic independence.
Families, too, are simpler today. In America, it is not customary for parents to live with their married children. With our greater mobility, relatives have scattered, the parents retiring to Florida or Arizona and the young people, after they marry, going wherever their jobs or their parents or their interests take them.
Young adult women have new freedom, too. While attending college, they often live away from home, sometimes far from their parents or their relatives. After college, they move to the city, find a job, and set up a ‘bachelor’ apartment. This is the era of women’s liberation.
But all this freedom and affluence have had an unforeseen and in some respects a devastating effect on marriage.
6. In the U.S. , families are becoming_____
a) bigger
b) smaller
c) easier
d) freer
7. Why are women able to achieve economic independence?
a) Because they have their own salary.
b) Because convenience foods are available.
c) Because they are free away from drudgery.
d) Because they attending college.
8. Hard housework was taken away by_____
a) liberated women
b) retired parents
c) supermarkets
d) modern equipment
9. Which of the following statements is not true according to the text?
a) Women’s liberation has made it possible for them to study.
b) Comfortable life adversely influences marriage in America.
c) Adults can go wherever they want.
d) Women prefer to be bachelors.
10. The text implies that the author_____
a) highly praises the liberation of women
b) heartily enjoys this freedom and affluence
c) strongly recommends such kind of social life
d) greatly worries about the bond of marriage