首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society—a group holding t
The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society—a group holding t
admin
2012-02-26
66
问题
The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society—a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.
"My grandmothers didn’t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.
While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents’ way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.
If you take into consideration feminism (女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable (必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple (紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.
"The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: ’When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn’t go,’" said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention.
"The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else," Cooper said. "Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves." This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. "We’re a ladies’ play group. It couldn’t be simpler," added Cooper’s assistant Joe Heywood.
The underlined word "chapter" in Paragraph 2 means ______.
选项
A、a branch of an organization
B、a written agreement of a club
C、a part of a collection of poems
D、a period in a society’s history
答案
A
解析
词汇题的出题思路:(1)难词生词;(2)词很简单,但考查考生都不熟知的含义。本题属于后者。选完后要代入原文中看看是否合适。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/EeJO777K
0
成人本科学位英语
相关试题推荐
Youaretowriteinnolessthan120wordsonthetopic"CreditCards".YourcompositionshouldbebasedontheChinesecluesg
Man:IhavereceivedaletterfromHarrythisafternoon.Hesaidhewantedtoknowifhecouldgetajobinyourofficeforthe
DearSirs,Yourshipmentoftwelvethousand’Smart’watcheswasreceivedbyourcompanythismorning.However,wewishtoma
Whenhewasthedirectorintheplasticplant,he______togetherwiththeworkers.
Theamountofsleepahumanbeingneedsdependson【C1】______,theindividualandpossiblyrace.Forexample,doctorsthinkthat
Allexpertsagreethatthemostimportantconsiderationwithdietdrugsis______carefullytherisksandbenefits.
Hesaidherefusedthejob,butthatthiswasnothingtodowiththesalary.He______evenifthey______himtwiceasmuch.
Theconceptof"environment"iscertainlydifficultandmayevenbemisunderstood;butwehavenohandysubstitute.Itseemssim
Onedayin1848acarpenternamedMarshall,whoworkedinasawmillontheAmericanRiverinCalifornia,madearemarkabledisc
Mostpeopleagreethattaxesmustbepaid.Governmentcouldn’trunwithoutmoney.Sopeopledon’targueagainsttaxes.Theyjust
随机试题
借贷资本主要来源于产业资本循环过程中闲置的()
既能养心安神,又能祛风通络的药是
A.氯硝西泮B.地西泮(安定)C.氯化钙D.苯妥英钠E.加巴喷丁
测定沥青软化点应进行2次平行试验,并要求两次测定值的差值应符合重复性试验精密度要求。()
单位工程质量竣工验收记录应由()填写。
从广义上泛指美国的证券投资基金的是()。
下列属于直接投资的有()。
战略控制系统的最后一步是()。
下列哪个搜索关键词可以找到音频资源?()
Forthelastfiftyyears,theglobehasbeenwarmingup.Itistruethattheaveragetemperature【C1】r______isonlyabouttwo
最新回复
(
0
)