Important change took place in the lives of women in the 19th century. When men

    Importantchange took place in the lives of women in the 19^th century. Whenmen went out from their farms to cities to seek jobs in industry.  Peasantwomen had to take over the sowing, growing,and harvesting of the fields as wellas caring for cattle and theirchildren.                        When women also moved to the cities in search of work, they found that it wasincreasingly. separated by sex and that employment opportunities for women werelimited to the lower-paid jobs. Later in the century, women in industrygathered mainly in cloth-making factories, though some worked in mining or tooksimilarly difficult and tiring jobs.

    Inthe 1800s, service work also absorbed(吸纳) a great number of women who arrived in thecities from the country. Young women especially took jobs as servants inmiddle-class and upper-class homes; and as more and more men were drawn intoindustry, domestic service(家庭服务) because increasingly afemale job. In the second half of the century, however, chances of otherservice work also opened up to women, from sales jobs in shops to teaching andnursing. These jobs came to be done mainly by women and low paid.

    Forthousands of years, when almost all work was done on the family farm or in thefamily firm(家庭作坊)，home and workplace had been the same, Inthese cases, women could do farm work or hand work, and perform home dutiessuch as child care and preparation of meals at the same time, Along with thedevelopment of industry, the central workplace, however, such as the factoryand the department store, separated home from work, Faced with the necessityfor women to choose between home and workplace, Western society began to giveparticular attention to the role of women as homemakers with more energy thanever before.

1.Welearn from the first paragraph that             hadbeen done chiefly by men before they went to cities to seek jobs.

A. mining, teaching, and nursing

B. sewing clothes and mining

C. sowing, growing, and harvesting

D. caring for cattle and growing crops

2.Domestic service because a female jobmainly because          .

   A. women took care of children.

   B. women took jobs as servants

C. men were employed in industry

D. men seldom worked in shops

3.we know from the passage that in the1800s___________.

A. more and more women began to work in domestic service

B. women mainly worked as servants, nurses, and miners

C. service and industrial jobs absorbed more women than men

D. women enjoyed working as sellers, teachers, and miners

4.This passage is about            inthe 19th century.

    A. service and industry             B.female and male jobs

    C. women and their work         D.female jobs and the pay

试题答案

【答案】

1.C

【解析】：由“Peasant women had to take overthe sowing, growing,and harvesting of the fields as well as caring for cattleand their children.”该句take over这一短语知道，是women接管下这些工作，那么之前当然是men的工作了

【高考考点】：事实细节题

2.C

【解析】：本文第二段“as more and more men were drawninto industry, domestic service(家庭服务) because increasingly a female job.”注意这里的as是一个原因状语从句连词。

【高考考点】：推理引申题

3.A

【解析】：由本文第二段，可以知道，随着越来越多男人去工厂做工，越来越多女人从事家政服务

【高考考点】：推理引申题

4.TC

【解析】：本文分三段，每段都是围绕女人工作的改变作出有关畅叙，故选C

【高考考点】：主旨题

【备考提示】：

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