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They are highly educated, have massive earning potential and were brought up to believe that sexual equality was their right. Bu

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问题     They are highly educated, have massive earning potential and were brought up to believe that sexual equality was their right. But a new kind of post-feminist is emerging that would have the suffragettes (主张争取选举权的女性) turning in their graves. The new-conservative housewife has given up her high-status job, grown out her power bob (短发) and stays at home with the children and the vacuum cleaner.
    Of course there is nothing new about women giving up careers to look after children but these housewives prefer to be called "home managers".
    The American writer Danielle Crittenden is a champion for this reinvented breed of homemaker in her new book Amanda Bright@Home. Her husband David Frum, a former White House speech writer, invented the phrase "axis of evil". Crittenden’s theories on modern motherhood have put her at the top of the feminists’ hate list. Betty Friedan says Crittenden is anti-women.
    Crittenden’s novel started as a hugely popular fictional column in The Wall Street Journal. The protagonist (主人公) Amanda, a fashionable, middle-class Washington mother who has given up her job to look after her two young children, struck a chord with thousands in the same position. Amanda misses the status and the beige suits that went with her job and struggles chaotically, like a grown-up Bridget Jones, with shopping and household chores.
    Ultimately, however, Crittenden’s heroine believes that staying at home is the right thing to do and in real life the author celebrates the role of the stay-at-home mum, believing that pre-school children need to be with their mothers in the daytime. It may sound like a return to the pre-feminist 1950s but it is hard to write Crittenden off as old-fashioned.
    Setting out in Amanda Bright@Home Crittenden writes: "Her grandmother’s World War Two generation had embraced motherhood and rejected careers; her mother’s postwar generation rejected motherhood and embraced careers. And Amanda’s?"
    A recent poll on the site showed that if money were not an issue most mothers would prefer not to work at all. A large minority would like to work part-time but only a few favored full-time work. Some however, undergo an enlightenment and decide they never want to return to their high-speed existence.
According to the passage, which of the following is the true description of the women during the 1950s？
选项 A、They rejected motherhood and embraced careers.
B、They embraced motherhood and rejected careers.
C、They began to realize that sexual equality was their right.
D、They had little problem in dealing with family and careers.
答案B
解析 根据题干关键词1950s定位到第5段末句。第5句末句中的主语it指的是该段前两句提到的主张妇女留在家里当家庭主妇的观点，句中表明50年代人们的观点就是认为妇女应该当家庭主妇而不外出工作，由此可见，B为本题答案。根据第6段，选项A指的应该是二战后成长起来的那一代的做法，二战20世纪40年代结束，二战后成长起来的那一代应该是指生活在六七十年代的人，而非50年代的人，因此选项A不正确；原文在首段提到“性别平等”，但没有提到这个理念从什么时候开始形成，因此选项C不正确；从原文只能知道50年代的妇女选择了当家庭主妇，但她们在做出这个选择之前是否在家庭和事业方面也遇到了很大的难题，这在原文并无提及，因此选项D也不正确。
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