2. 外语
  3. If gender conflicts continue at their current rate, my partner gloomily observed, men may fade into extinction and women will ma

If gender conflicts continue at their current rate, my partner gloomily observed, men may fade into extinction and women will ma

admin2013-11-29  37
问题     If gender conflicts continue at their current rate, my partner gloomily observed, men may fade into extinction and women will manage fine without them. What with test-tube babies, cloning, a falling birth-rate, and have-it-all career women prevailing like never before, it seems as if old-fashioned, instinct-driven sexual selection was totally out of fashion. But a study from four British universities suggests it is alive and well, and busy shaping the next generation.
    In spite of emancipation, the feminist movement, gender equality, and consistent efforts to avoid gender-stereotyping, men still prefer to marry women who are not too brainy. In the study a high IQ hampered a woman’s chance of getting married, with a 40 percent drop in marital prospects for every 16-point rise. The opposite was true for their male class-mates. Top-earning men were 8 per cent more likely to be married than their low-earning peers.
    How interesting that we automatically assume that men are put off by cleverness in women. Perhaps the brainy women did not want to get married. Possibly they could not find men clever enough to satisfy them. But these interpretations hardly merit more than a passing thought because this study simply reinforces what we know to be broadly true: that most women do want a committed partner and that most stable marriages occur in a power relation, with the man being the center.
    We usually think of competitiveness as a male activity, and so it is mainly, which is all the more reason for it causing stress in a marriage. Our ancestry certainly included a long phase when the males competed for the alpha role, in which the top male took all the advantages and most of the group matings. Most men nurse secret dreams of being "benign" dictators. No man likes his wife to earn more than he does. We see how fragile are the marriages of those in which the female has the whip hand of power in the shape of fame, success, and wealth, royalty. In contrast, marriages where the female status is obviously inferior, including arranged marriages, there is a greater stability.
    Women have to accept that coming into our own and achieving the full potential of our (seemingly superior) capacity to use education will undoubtedly make us more inaccessible as partners. More choosy, and therefore less successful.
The statistics in Paragraph 2 illustrate that______.
选项 A、women’s IQ and their marital probability are in direct proportion
B、men’s IQ and their marital probability are in inverse proportion
C、man prefer to marry women who are less intelligent
D、women prefer to marry men who are very intelligent
答案C
解析 题目问：第二段中列举的统计数据说明了什么。根据文中第二段的内容可知，这项研究表明，拥有高智商的女性的结婚几率降低，智商每增加16点，结婚的几率则下降40%。对于男性来说，情况却恰恰相反。高收入的男性与低收入的男性相比，其结婚的可能性要高出8％。据此可知，A、B两项与文中阐述的情形正相反，因此不正确。从这些统计数据可以推知，男人愿意娶不是太聪明的女人，因此C项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/nPhO777K
0

考博英语

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)