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  3. "In every known human society the male s needs for achievement can be recognized. In a great number of human societies men’ s su

"In every known human society the male s needs for achievement can be recognized. In a great number of human societies men’ s su

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问题     "In every known human society the male s needs for achievement can be recognized. In a great number of human societies men’ s sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or a-bility, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat."
    This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished.
    If talk and print are considered it would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defences which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion from types of occupation and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women’ s pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of running the world.
    There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of men’ s status. In the first place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel.
    Secondly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who work, especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the increasingly numerous convergences between male and female behaviour: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities.
    Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people’ s sense of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.
At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to_____.
选项 A、show that men are stronger than women
B、carry further the ideas of the earlier paragraphs
C、support the first sentence of the same paragraph
D、disown the ideas he is expressing
答案C
解析 在最后一段的最后一句中，作者指出男性主动求爱，是男性角色所要求的，但不能用来说明男性比女性强，所以A不对。在最后一段倒数第二句中描写了漫画中的男子的行为，说明了人类生活最原始、最自然的形态。这是对本段第一句话的支持。为了说明人的潜意识里的性别分工概念。与C项相对应，D的说法是错误的。文章最后一段的内容与前几段的表述并不一致，不能说是对前几段内容的进一步说明，B项也不对。所以本题的正确答案为C。
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