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Today men are facing new expectations and new choices about their commitments to society, family, and work. No longer what goals

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问题    Today men are facing new expectations and new choices about their commitments to society, family, and work. No longer what goals they should pursue, much less how they should pursue them, many men have found themselves in a no-man’s land, searching for new meanings and definitions of maturity. In interviews I conducted with 138 men from diverse social and economic background. 36 percent defined their family and work commitments in terms of primary breadwinning, and 30 percent chose to eschew parenthood or to avoid involvement with children they had brought into the world.
   However, about 33 percent had moved toward more rather than less family involvement over the course of their lives. These men develop an outlook on parenthood that included caretaking as well as economic support. They represent a growing group of fathers, most of whom arc married to work-committed women and have an egalitarian approach toward marriage and family commitments. Such men ,whom I call "involved fathers",  are demonstrating a capacity, a willingness, and an enthusiasm for parenting not seen in their fathers’ and grandfathers’ generations.
   An involved lather, however, is not necessarily an equal father. Though men’s domestic participation has increased in recent year, his involvement has not kept in pace with women’s rapidly rising commitment to paid employment. A persistent" housework gap" has left most women with more work and less leisure time than their male counterparts.
   It may be tempting to focus on the fact that, even among men who support equality, their involvement as fathers remains a far distance from what most women want and most children need. Yet it is also important to acknowledge how far and how fast many men have moved toward a pattern that not long ago virtually all men considered anathema. One recent survey found that 73 percent of a group of randomly selected fathers agreed that "their families are the most important facet of their lives"; 87 percent agreed that "dad is as vital as mom in raising kids. "The cballenge is to create the social and cultural arrangements that would enable men to uphold these beliefs more easily.
For men’s belief in equal attitude toward family and parenthood, society______.
选项 A、is not ready for this
B、shows a neutral attitude toward this
C、is agreeable to this
D、is strongly opposed to this
答案A
解析 由题干beliefs定位到第四段最后一段最后一句话，意思是虽然男人对参与家庭事务的观念发生了重大变化，但作者认为重要的是要建立能够使男人坚守这些观念的社会和文化机制，因此说明全社会并没有做好这种准备，因此选[A]还没有准备好。[D]持中立态度，社会对这种观念仍然没有完全认同，并非中立，[C]持同意的观点，不是同意，而是有传统观念的阻力， [D]强烈反对，文中并未提及来自社会的强烈的反对，只是一下子感到无法认同而已。
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