問題詳情
第二篇： Single, educated women are reported to "increase the risk of social instability by being free agents, unnatural in failing toperform their duty to give birth to a child and tame a restless man". The Chinese government is particularly anxious to seeeducated, "high-quality" women marry, "to produce children with superior genetic makeup". The social coercion of women into marriage has troubling economic consequences. Since urban women in their mid-20sare taught to feel already almost on the shelf, they often marry hastily and do not press for economic equality within theirmarriages. The urban Chinese today are preoccupied with buying a home. In cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, prices haveskyrocketed in recent years, resulting in an extraordinary appreciation in real-estate wealth. Working women often contributetheir life savings to securing a marital apartment, and put their salaries into mortgage repayments. Yet although more than70% of women help finance the purchase of a marital home, only 30% of such deeds include the wife's name, and theircontributions to mortgages are frequently not officially acknowledged. A recent research suggests that husbands and in-lawsoften make women who request property rights within a marriage feel grasping and unreasonable. Consequently, women tendto back down, for fear of scaring off a potential spouse. Sole ownership of the marital property inevitably gives a husbandgreater power in the relationship, and weakens the woman's bargaining position on financial and domestic issues. At the sametime as women have been left out of China's property boom, employment rates for urban women have fallen in the past twodecades, from 77.4% to 60.8%. One female graduate whom the researcher interviewed deliberately dropped out ofemployment in order make herself "less intimidating to suitors".
【題組】56. What is the main issue discussed in the passage?
(A) The falling employment rate of rural women
(B) The economic cost of pressuring women to get married
(C) Social instability caused by single educated men
(D) Deteriorating genetic makeup of modern children
參考答案
答案：B
難度：非常簡單1
統計：A(0),B(1),C(0),D(0),E(0)