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  3. The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on women’s lives. Marxists had traditionally believed tha

The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on women’s lives. Marxists had traditionally believed tha

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问题     The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on women’s lives. Marxists had traditionally believed that both capitalism and the middle-class husbands exploited women. The Russian Revolution of 1917 immediately proclaimed complete equality of rights for women. In the 1920s divorce and abortion were made easily available, and women were urged to work outside the home and liberate themselves sexually. After Stalin came to power, sexual and familial liberation was played down, and the most lasting changes for women involved work and education.
    These changes were truly revolutionary. Young women were constantly told that they had to be equal to men, that they could and should do everything men could do. Peasant women in Russia had long experienced the equality of backbreaking physical labor in the countryside, and they continued to enjoy that equality on collective farms.  With the advent of the five-year-plans, millions of women also began to toil in factories and in heavy construction, building dams, roads and steel mills in summer heat and winter frost. Most of the opportunities open to men through education were also open to women. Determined women pursued their studies and entered the ranks of the better-paid specialists in industry and science. Medicine practically became a woman’s profession. By 1950, 75 percent of doctors in the Soviet Union were women.
    Thus Stalinist society gave woman great opportunities but demanded great sacrifices as well. The vast majority of women simply had to work outside the home. Wages were so law that it was almost impossible for a family or couple to live only on the husband’s earnings. Moreover, the fun-time working woman had a heavy burden of household tasks in her off hours, for most Soviet men in the 1930s still considered the home and the children the woman’s responsibility. Men continued to monopolize the best jobs. Finally, rapid change and economic hardship led to many broken families, creating further physical, emotional, and mental strains for women. In any event, the often-neglected human resource of women was mobilized in Stalinist society.  
We can conclude that the economic and social status of women in Stalinist society ______.
选项 A、had been improved
B、was worse than before
C、had not Changed much
D、was better than that in capitalistic countries
答案A
解析 推断题。文章第二段指出变革赋予女性和男性平等的权利。她们可以从事同样的工作，接受相同的教育，通过努力同样进人专业领域。尽管第三段提到她们由此也不得不付出很大的代价，但我们可以推断，和过去相比，女性的经济和社会地位还是有所提高的。故正确答案为A项。
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