四六级考试

【单选题】The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done (47) ________ by women — ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing (48) ________ work — still need to be done by someone. Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a (49) ________ that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face a crushing "poverty of time " and look for help elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like. Although there is still a big wage (50) ________ between men and women, the income working women (51) ________ gives them new independence and buying power. For example, women now (52) ________ about half of all cars. Not long ago, many car dealers (53) ________ women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that women are (54) ________ customers. It’’s interesting that some leading Japanese car dealers were the first to (55) ________ pay attention to women customers. In Japan, fewer women have jobs or buy cars — the Japanese society is still very much male-orienteD、Perhaps it was the (56) ________ contrast with Japanese society that promptedAmerican firms to pay more attention to women buyers.WORD、BANK[A] scale [F] affordable [K] voluntary[B] retailed [G] situation [L] excessive[C] generate[H] really[M] insulted [D] extreme [I] potential [N] purchase [E] technically[J] gap [O] primarily
网考网参考答案：K
网考网解析：
此处需填一形容词修饰work，选项中共有七个形容词，其中能修饰work使其与上文中的family shopping及preparing meals并列的只有K项voluntary。voluntary work指“义工”。B项retailed(零售的)、F项affordable(支付得起的)不能修饰work。D项extreme(极度的．极端的)、L项excessive(过多的，过分的)与此处语境不符。I项potential(潜在的，可能的)，potential work范围过大，语义不明确，不能与family shopping和preparing meals并列。M项insulted为过去分词形式，表示“受侮辱的，被侮辱的”，一般用来修饰人，不能修饰work。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>