Q3 to Q5:
The idea that equipping homes
with electrical appliances and other
“modern” household technologies
Line would eliminate drudgery, save labor
(5) time, and increase leisure for women
who were full-time home workers
remained largely unchallenged until
the women’s movement of the 1970’s
spawned the groundbreaking and
(10) influential works of sociologist Joann
Vanek and historian Ruth Cowan.
Vanek analyzed 40 years of time-
use surveys conducted by home
economists to argue that electrical
(15) appliances and other modern house-
hold technologies reduced the effort
required to perform specific tasks,
but ownership of these appliances did
not correlate with less time spent on
(20) housework by full-time home workers.
In fact, time spent by these workers
remained remarkably constant―at
about 52 to 54 hours per week―from
the 1920’s to the 1960’s, a period
(25) of significant change in household
technology. In surveying two
centuries of household technology
in the United States, Cowan argued
that the “industrialization” of the home
(30) often resulted in more work for full-time
home workers because the use of
such devices as coal stoves, water
pumps, and vacuum cleaners tended
to reduce the workload of married-
(35) women’s helpers (husbands, sons,
daughters, and servants) while
promoting a more rigorous standard
of housework. The full-time home
worker’s duties also shifted to include
(40) more household management, child
care, and the post-Second World War
phenomenon of being “Mom’s taxi.”
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Q3:
According to the passage, which of the following is true about the idea mentioned in line 1?
- It has been undermined by data found in time-use surveys conducted by home economists.
- It was based on a definition of housework that was explicitly rejected by Vanek and Cowan.
- It is more valid for the time period studied by Cowan than for the time period studied by Vanek.
- It is based on an underestimation of the time that married women spent on housework prior to the industrialization of the household.
- It inaccurately suggested that new household technologies would reduce the effort required to perform housework.
Answer:
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Q4:
The passage is primarily concerned with
- analyzing a debate between two scholars
- challenging the evidence on which a new theory is based
- describing how certain scholars’ work countered a prevailing view
- presenting the research used to support a traditional theory
- evaluating the methodology used to study a particular issue
Answer:
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Q5:
Which of the following best describes the function of the sentence in lines 21-26 (“In fact, time … in household technology”)?
- It offers an alternative interpretation of a phenomenon described in the previous sentence (lines 12-20).
- It provides the specific evidence on which an argument described in the previous sentence (lines 12-20) is based.
- It shifts the focus of the argument developed earlier in the passage.
- It introduces evidence that has not been taken into account by Vanek and Cowan.
- It introduces a topic for discussion that will be developed in the rest of the passage.
请问第三题中A,E哪一个比较好？ | 
