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  3. "What About the Men?" was the title of a Congressional briefing last week timed to【B1】______National Work and Family Month. "Wha

"What About the Men?" was the title of a Congressional briefing last week timed to【B1】______National Work and Family Month. "Wha

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问题     "What About the Men?" was the title of a Congressional briefing last week timed to【B1】______National Work and Family Month. "What about them?" you may be【B2】______to yell.
    When Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute, first went out on the road to talk about her organization’ s research into men’ s work-family【B3】______, she received many such grumpy responses. Work-life experts laughed at her. Men are【B4】______, they said. They don’ t have the right to complain. That was in 2008, before the Great Recession had hit. And this year, when Galinsky went out on the road again to talk about the results of a new study on male work-life conflict, she got a very【B5】______response. Some men became very【B6】______. They felt they didn’ t have permission to feel【B7】______. " ’ This is what I think about each and every day, ’ " she recalled another man telling her. " ’ I didn’ t realize that anyone else did,’ " he said. " He thought he was alone," Galinsky told me.
    【B8】______men are【B9】______work-family conflict isn’ t new. Indeed, it’ s been some time now that they—and younger men in particular—have been complaining of feeling the【B10】______in even greater numbers of women. Failure,【B11】______, uncertainty, the【B12】______that comes from spending a lifetime playing one game【B13】______, mid-way through, that the rules have suddenly changed, seem to have【B14】______the old categories of self, work and meaning for many men.
    Is this a bad thing? I’ d rather see it as a moment ripe【B15】______possibility. " A new beginning," said Ellen Galinsky. After all, what men are starting to say sounds an awful lot like the conversational stirrings that【B16】______the way for the modern women’ s movement.
    For some years now, sociologists have been tracking the patterns of what they call【B17】______in men and women’ s lives. Mostly, when we think of this, we tend to focus【B18】______how they live, what they do, how they spend time, whether they do or do not empty the dishwasher or care for their children. But what about how they feel? Now that this final frontier is being breached, I wonder if we aren’ t fully prepared to see more meaningful change in men’ s—and women’ s and families’—lives than ever before. That is: if we can【B19】______the change and act【B20】______it with courage, not fear.
【B16】
选项 A、laid
B、cleared
C、paved
D、set
答案C
解析 横线处这句话的大意是，“男性现在的怨言与女性运动开始时的躁动不安的言论大体一致”。conversational stirrings后接that引导的定语从句，关系词代替先行词，在定语从句中充当主语。横线处要填一个动词和way构成搭配。[A]laid一般和foundation一词搭配，而不和way搭配，表示“为……打下基础”。[B]cleared，可与way搭配，clear the way for意思是“为……扫清障碍”。例如：The enforcement of this law will clear the way for further reform．该项法律的实施将进一步扫除改革的障碍。pave the way for意思是“为……铺平道路”。例如，This agreement will pave the way for a lasting peace between the two countries．这个协议将为两国问的持久和平铺平道路。[D]set一般不和way这个词搭配。通过句义判断，女性运动刚开始的那种喧嚣、躁动与不安实际上就是后来女性运动的萌芽，也就是为后来女性运动的开展在打下基础，铺路。因此，最符合句义的应该是[C]。
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