[originaltext] (32) The family is changing. In the past, grandparents, parent

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问题  
(32) The family is changing. In the past, grandparents, parents, and children used to live together, and they had a big family. Sometimes two or more brothers with their wives and children were part of this large family group. But family structure is changing throughout the world. The nuclear family consists of only one father, one mother, and children, it is becoming the main family structure everywhere.
   (33) The nuclear family offers married women some advantages, they have freedom from their relatives, and the husband does not have all the power of the family. ’Studies show that in nuclear families, men and women usually make an equal number of decisions about family life.
   But wives usually have to "pay" for the benefits of freedom and power. When women lived in extended families, sisters, grandparents, and aunts helped one another with housework and childcare. In addition, (34) older women in a large family group had important positions. Wives in nuclear families do not often enjoy this benefit, and they have another disadvantage, too: women generally live longer than their husbands, so older women from nuclear families often have to live alone. Studies show that women are generally less satisfied with marriage than men are. In the past, men worked outside the home and women worked inside. Housework and childcare were a full-time job, and there was no time for anything else. (35) Now women work outside and have more freedom than they did in the past, but they still have to do most of the housework. The women actually have two full-time jobs, and they do not have much free time.

选项 A、Women have more freedom and can share in decisions.
B、Women do not have to be the heads of the family.
C、Women’s relatives do not help them with the housework and children.
D、Women have all the power of the family.

答案 A

解析 What advantages does the nuclear family offer women?
四个选项都是以women开头,因此我们判断出问题的大概所指是妇女在家庭中的地位和作用。
文章第二段就开始叙述了the nuclear family,它的组成以及家庭各成员所占的地位...offers married women some advantages,they have freedom from their relatives,她们跟以前相比,地位相应得到了很大的提高,在问题的决策上有了更大的自由度。因此答案选A)。
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