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Something is going on in the stepmothering camp. Call it an uprising, or a rebranding. There was the story about the woman in Au
Something is going on in the stepmothering camp. Call it an uprising, or a rebranding. There was the story about the woman in Au
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2013-08-03
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Something is going on in the stepmothering camp. Call it an uprising, or a rebranding. There was the story about the woman in Australia who went to court to prevent her daughter calling her stepmother "Mummy D". It was a small item in the news—one of those designed to make you marvel at the pettiness of divorced couples— but look closely and there is something else going on here. A mother battling to maintain her unique status. A stepmother who imagines she is no different to a birth mother, and wants to rewrite history with her centre stage in the family portrait.
I am a stepmother. I’m not crazy about the term—the step part makes it sound cold and hard, not to mention all the negative baggage that goes with it—but it serves a useful purpose, which is to clarify exactly where I stand in relation to my stepchildren, and they to me. I am not my stepchildren’s mother. I did not give birth to them. I had not even met them until they were in their teens. Those are the plain facts and they are the sort of facts you mess with at your peril. What I am is a full-time parent—someone who fulfils a motherly role in their lives on a daily basis. 1 am the one who bandages the cuts, buys the spot cream, answers the homework questions, takes them clothes shopping, gets their hair cut, and nags them to shower. I’ve done my share of standing on the touchline in the rain, separating fights, clearing up sick and talking through various problems. It’s me who gets the phone call after the exam. Me who sobs at airports when they disappear on gap years and me who worries when they aren’t home on time. Still, I’m not their mother. I am something important, but significantly different. I am their stepmother.
The trouble is, there’s a new generation of stepmothers who want to compete for pole position, instead of accepting that they have something unique to offer. It’s the philosophy of the "me" generation taken to its logical conclusion—because I’m worth it and I do the work of a mother(even if it’s every other weekend), I deserve to be called a mother. Ladies, really, this is madness. There are so many advantages to being a stepmother as opposed to a real mother.
According to the passage, the author does all the following EXCEPT
选项
A、taking care of her stepchildren’s disputes.
B、urging her stepchildren to take a bath.
C、sending her stepchildren umbrellas.
D、helping with her stepchildren’s homework.
答案
C
解析
细节题。第三段中间开始至最后提到“我”作为继母所做的事情。由该段倒数第六句可知,[C]是对句中in the rain的曲解,没有提及该项,故为答案。[A]是对第三段倒数第六句中的separating fights的解释;由倒数第七句可知,[B]解释了nags them to shower;而[D]则与answers the homework questions一致。
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