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The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable sho

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问题    The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by modem living conditions.
   This important change in women’s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left schools at the first chance, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry younger, more married women stay at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with the both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to file abilities and interests of each of them.
We are told that in a common family around the 1900 ______.
选项 A、about half of the children died before they were five
B、seven or eight children lived to be more than five
C、the youngest child would be fifteen
D、four or five children died when they were five
答案A
解析 本题为直接信息，文章第一段的第三句话说：“…of whom four or five lived till they were five years old．”意思是一个家庭七八个小孩中有四到五个小孩活不过5岁。因此选项A“about half of the children died before they were five”最符合该句话的意思。
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