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
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
admin
2019-06-10
47
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, 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, 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 per cent drop in marital prospects for every 16-point rise. The opposite was true for their male classmates. 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 in the shape of fame, success, and wealth. 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.
What might be the meaning of "whip hand" in Paragraph 4?
选项
A、Control.
B、Desire.
C、Intelligence.
D、Commitment.
答案
A
解析
本题是词汇题,要求考生理解“whip hand”在上下文中的意思,尤其是第四段的最后两句呈对比关系,说明女性在婚姻中的强势与否与婚姻的稳定有关:女性强势,婚姻则脆弱;而女性在家庭中地位低于男性的话,婚姻有更大的稳定性。“whip hand”的意思是“执鞭之手”,即“支配地位”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/qSUO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Largelyduetotheuniversitytraditionandthecurrentacademicmilieu,everycollegestudenthereworks______.
Asstudentsreturntoschoolthisfall,parentswillagainworryaboutnewillnessesaskidscomeintocontactwithflugerms.T
Winnersdonotdedicatetheirlivestoaconceptofwhattheyimaginetheyshouldbe;rather,theyarethemselvesandassuchdo
Withgreateffortsofthepeace-lovingpeopleallovertheworld,Iraq______thewar.
rathercrawlitlittlebeforealthoughsomethingformmakeoutcut
Anyhopeofafountainofyouthtostoppeoplefromgettingolderisalongwayoffwithsciencejustbeginningtounderstandth
ItisaquestionthathasvexedphilosopherssincetheGreeks.Butitseemswemaynowhavetheanswertothebeguilinglysimple
Whenanyoneopensacurrentaccountatabank,heislendingthebankmoney.Hemay【C1】______therepaymentofthemoneyatany
Tightlippedeldersusedtosay,"It’snotwhatyouwantinthisworld,butwhatyouget."Psychologyteachesthatyoudoge
随机试题
根据人机特性和人机功能合理分配的原则,适合于机器做的是()工作。
称为治疗时首选药物是
下列不属于工程项目准备阶段的工作的是()
根据《政府采购法》的规定,政府采购的主体范围不包括()。
对于开市期间停牌的申报问题,上海证券交易所和深圳证券交易所在处理上相同的地方有( )。
关于债券投资风险及其规避的论述,不正确的是()。
在定期租船合同下,船舶的经营管理由()负责。
劳动争议处理的原则是()。(2003年7月二级真题)
对文化遗产的保护,充足的资金保障是必不可少的条件。世界各国文化遗产保护先进国家和地区中,资金来源大致可以分为三个渠道:一是政府直接投资,二是政府通过发行专项彩券而进行的间接投入,三是来自社会团体或个人的投入。对上述文字理解不正确的是:
已知有数组定义chara[3][4];下列表达式中错误的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)