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On the face of it,today's women are better off as a result of feminism (女权运动).Girls achieve more than boys at school and women are quickly breaking through glass ceilings (successfully climbing the executive ladder) in many businesses.
The only trouble is that a 25-year-old woman today is 3-to-10 times more likely to be depressed than one in 1950.What went wrong was that the American economic system made ill use of feminism and changed it into a method for making a profit rather than for freeing women to think and act for themselves.
The dark reality is this:Three-quarters of working women's jobs are of low income,of low skill,and of low status.
Bright,attractive,public school and Oxford and Cambridge graduates take charming,well-paid jobs in the media or in the financial district.But the reality of the struggle to the top of business,newspapers,or television is one of dirty office work and working far too many hours to make other people rich.
The sense that such women have of life being a horrible cheat is,if anything,even stronger than that felt by their less fortunate sisters.Cheated into working after school,they find themselves running and running without actually getting anywhere in their 20s.
When Bridget Jones (a role in the movie "Bridget Jones' Diary",who is a 30-something single woman) finally ends this unrewarding run in her 30s to make babies,her day is taken up with the crying of children—one of the least respected roles.
She looks in the mirror and,to a terrible extent,sees her mother—the woman who encouraged her to study and work in order to take advantage of the new opportunities that previous generations did not have.
It is not hard to see how women who have been through all this might be just a little bit angry.And,this is a society where the changing of feminism's goals and career dreams has helped to result in the increasing number of divorces.
11.According to the author,women are __________________________.
A.enjoying a life better than in the past in all ways
B.earning more than what they should be paid
C.more likely to slip into depression than before
D.performing much better than men in business
12.In business,some women climbed to the top by _____________________.
A.using their skills and abilities
B.working hard and for long hours
C.making their hands dirty and wet
D.gaining support from rich people
13.The author compares the life of modern women in their 20s to _____________.
A.a continual run
B.an unending film
C.a fun play activity
D.a glass ceiling
14.We can learn from the passage that ______________________.
A.today's women are good at breaking glasses
B.Bridget Jones can't represent today's working women
C.today's women are angry because of their babies
D.there are more divorced women in today's society
英语阅读3On the face of it,today's women are better off as a res
11. C 12. B 13. A 14. D