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  3. "In every known human society the male’ s needs for achievement call be recognized...In a greater number of human societies men’

"In every known human society the male’ s needs for achievement call be recognized...In a greater number of human societies men’

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问题      "In every known human society the male’ s needs for achievement call be recognized...In a greater number of human societies men’ s sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat."
     This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished.
     If talk and print are considered it would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defences which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion from types of occupation and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women’ s pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of running the world.
     There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of men’ s status. In the first place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel.
     Secondly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who work, especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the increasingly numerous convergences between male and female behaviour: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities.
     Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people’ s sense of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.
选项 A、are confident in their ability to charm women
B、take the initiative in courtship
C、have a clear idea of what is considered "manly"
D、tend to be more immoral than women are
答案C
解析 本篇阅读是关于男女角色应如何区分和对待的问题。语言的文学评论性很强，理解上有一定的困难。本题题干表面上是考短语理解，实际上是考察对第一段的理解。根据本段的最后一句的“maleness”，我们可确定该短语所暗含的意思应是“清楚地知道什么是‘男子汉’”，因此选C。
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