Changes of Women’s Role The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, (51) in the last twenty years. The m

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问题                       Changes of Women’s Role
    The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, (51) in the last twenty years. The main change has been (52) giving women greater equality with men. Up to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had (53) fights. They could not vote and were kept at home. (54) , as far as we know, most women were happy with this situation. Today, women in Britain certainly (55) more rights than they used to. They were (56) the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal (57) of wealth in the case of divorce, (58) the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year.
    Yet (59) these changes, there are still great difference in status between men and women. Many employers seem to (60) the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is (61) to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job. (62) a survey, at present, only one-third of the country’s workers are (63) women. This small percentage is partly (64) a shortage of nurseries. If there were (65) nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work.  

选项 A、because of
B、instead of
C、in spite of
D、as a result of

答案C

解析 because of“因为、由于”,instead of“而不是……”,in spite of“不管、虽然”,as a result of“作为……的结果”。本句的意思是“虽然有这些改变,女性与男性的地位仍然存在巨大差别”,表示让步关系,所以应选C。
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