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
Fifty is the gateway to the most liberating passage in a woman’s life. Children are making test flights out of the nest. Parents
Fifty is the gateway to the most liberating passage in a woman’s life. Children are making test flights out of the nest. Parents
admin
2013-03-27
52
问题
Fifty is the gateway to the most liberating passage in a woman’s life. Children are making test flights out of the nest. Parents are expected to be roaming in their recreational vehicles or sending postcards of themselves riding camels. Free at last! Women can graduate from the precarious balancing act between parenting and pursuit of a career. That has been the message of my books since I wrote New Passages 15 years ago. What I didn’t see coming was the boomerang.
With parents living routinely into their 90s, a second round of caregiving has become a predictable crisis for women in midlife. Nearly 50 million Americans are taking care of an adult who used to be independent. Yes, men represent about one third of family caregivers, but their participation is often at a distance and administrative. Women do most of the hands-on care.
It starts with the call. It’s a call about a fall. Your mom has had a stroke. Or it’s a call about your dad—he’s run a red light and hit someone, again, but how are you ever going to persuade him to stop driving? Or your hushand’s doctor calls with news that your partner is reluctant to tell you: it’s cancer.
When that call came to me, I froze. The shock plunges you into a whirlpool of fear, denial, and feverish action. You search out doctors. They don’t agree on the diagnosis. You scavenge the Internet. The side effects make you worry. You call your brother or sister, hoping for help. Old rivalries flare up.
We’d like to think that siblings would be natural allies when parents falter. But the facts are quite different. Brothers bury their heads in the sand. The farther away a sister lives, the more certain she will call the primary caregiver and tell her she doesn’t know what she’s doing. A 1996 study by Cornell and Louisiana State universities concluded that siblings are not just inherent rivals, but the greatest source of stress between human beings.
There are many rewards in giving back to a loved one. And the short-term stress of mobilizing against the initial crisis jump-starts the body’s positive responses. But this role is not a short race. It usually turns into a marathon, averaging almost five years. But most solitary caregivers will wait until the third or fourth year before sending out the desperate cry "I can’t do this anymore!"
To many women, the calls as described would most likely be very______.
选项
A、invigorating
B、distressing
C、refreshing
D、confusing
答案
B
解析
根据文中第四段的“When that call came to me,I froze.The shock plungesyou into a whirlpool of fear,denial,and feverish action.”可知,当接到电话时,我呆住了。这种打击会让你陷入恐惧、拒绝接受和狂乱行动的漩涡。据此可以推知,对许多女性来说,那些电话会让她们感到沮丧。B项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gRmO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Resistancetothe1954UnitedStatesSupremeCourtdecisionterminatingsegregationplacedtheschoolsinthemiddleofabitter
Resistancetothe1954UnitedStatesSupremeCourtdecisionterminatingsegregationplacedtheschoolsinthemiddleofabitter
Inmostcountries,themetricsystemhasbeen_____forallmeasurement.
BuildingonthebaseofevidenceandinterpretationinHansen’s(1994)qualitativestudyofworkingpeople’sdiaries,weassigne
Accordingtoasurvey,whichwasbasedontheresponsesofover188,000students,today’straditional-agecollegefreshmenare
Childrenwhoaredescribedasmildlymentallymentallyhandicappedareoftenupsettohearthemselvesdescribedassuch,andsuc
Thelowoperatingcostsoftheforeigncompanywill______thehighlaborcoststhebusinesspaysinitsowncountry.
Effortstoprovideprofessionaltraumacounselingassumethattraumaisthemainpsychosocialissuefollowingtheearthquake.(1
AftertheviolentearthquakethatshookLosAngelesin1994,earthquakescientistshadgoodnewstoreport;Thedamageanddeath
AftertheviolentearthquakethatshookLosAngelesin1994,earthquakescientistshadgoodnewstoreport;Thedamageanddeath
随机试题
酶促反应的特点不包括
下列关于斗篷照射野器官保护描述错误的是
一项病例对照研究,探讨妊娠期母亲的各种暴露史与新生儿先天性畸形之间的联系。在调查时,那些生畸形孩子的母亲由于心理压力常常隐瞒怀孕时的吸烟情况,而那些对照儿童的母亲,其报告就较准确。如果上述情况确实存在,并且吸烟确实增加生畸形儿的危险,那么研究结果估计的
信度是指测验分数的
经营战略的组织机构具备的基本条件不包括()。
如果公司经营管理发生严重困难,继续存续会使股东利益受到重大损失,通过其他途径不能解决的,持有公司全部股东表决权()以上的股东,可以请求人民法院解散公司。
一个人有能力及时地采取有充分根据的决定,并且在深思熟虑的基础上实现这些决定,这体现了意志的()。
以下说法正确的是()。
衡量存储容量的常用单位有(5)。
TheWriterofthispassagehadactedasasecretaryandanactorinhisorhercareer.Fromtheauthor’spointofview,onlyba
最新回复
(
0
)