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Tourists were surprised to see a woman driving a huge orange tractor down one of Rome’s main avenues. Italy’s political leaders

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问题     Tourists were surprised to see a woman driving a huge orange tractor down one of Rome’s main avenues. Italy’s political leaders and some of its male union chiefs are said to have been even more puzzled to see that the tractor was followed by about 200,000 women in a parading procession that took more than three hours to snake through central Rome.
    Shouting slogans, waving flags and dancing to drumbeats, the women had come to the capital from all over Italy to demonstrate for "a job for each of us, a different type of job, and a society without violence." So far, action to improve women’s opportunities in employment has been the province of collective industrial bargaining. "But there is a growing awareness that this is not enough," says a researcher on female labor at the government-funded Institute for the Development of Professional Training for works.
    Women, who constitute 52 percent of Italy’s population, today represent only 35 percent of Italy’s total workforce and 33 percent of the total number of Italian with jobs. However, their presence in the workplace is growing. The employment of women is expanding considerably in services, next to the public administration and commerce as their principal workplace. Official statistics also show that women have also made significant strides in self-employment. More and more women are going into business for themselves. Many young women are turning to business because of growing overall in employment. It is also a fact that today many prejudices have disappeared, so that banks and other financial institutes make judgments on purely business considerations without caring if it is a man or woman.
    Such changes are occurring in the professions too. The number of women doctors, dentists, lawyers , engineers and university professors increased two to three fold. Some of the changes are immediately visible. For example, women have appeared on the scene for the first time as state police, railway workers and street cleaners.
    However, the present situation is far from satisfactory though some progress has been made. A breakthrough in equal opportunities for women is now demanded.
What can we learn about the employment situation for women now according to Paragraph 3?
选项 A、Most of the women are employed in service.
B、More and more women are making self-employment.
C、Many prejudices for female employment have disappeared.
D、Banks and other financial institutes have employed many women.
答案C
解析 选项C对应第三段最后一句话的前半部分。选项A对应第三段第三句话，但是原文说的是女性在服务行业的雇佣人数在扩大，并没有说多数的女性都被雇佣于服务行业。选项B是将第三段的第四句和第五句拼凑起来的无中生有的选项，也就是说文章并没有提到越来越多的女性开始自主经营了。选项D对应第三段的最后一句的后半部分，文章提到银行和金融机构现在不关注性别问题，只从商业的角度考虑问题。因此选项D属偷换概念。
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