浙江大学宁波理工英语外语平台阅读答案
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浙江大学宁波理工学院英语平台答案阅读部分1.The status of women in ①colonial North America has been well studied and described and can be briefly②summarized. Throughout the colonial period there was a marked shortage of women, which varied with the regions and was always greatest in the frontier areas. This favorable ratio ③enhanced women's status and position and allowed them to pursue different careers.The Puritans, the religious sect that ④dominated the early british colonies in North America, regarded⑤idleness as a sin, and believed that life in an underdeveloped country made it absolutely necessary that each member of the community perform an ⑥economic function.Thus work for women, married or single, was not only approved, it was regarded as a civic duty. Puritan town councils expected idows and unattached women to be self supporting and for a long time provided needy spinsters with parcels of land. There was no social ⑦sanction against married women working; on the contrary, wives were expected to help their husbands in their trade and won social ⑧approval for doing extra work in or out of the home. Needy children, girls as well as boys, were indentured or apprenticed and were expected to work for their keep.The vast majority of women worked within their homes, where their labor produced most articles needed for the family. The entire colonial production of cloth and clothing and partially that of shoes was in the hands of women. In addition to these ⑨occupations, women were found in many ⑩different kinds of employment. They were butchers, silversmiths, gunsmiths and upholsterers. They ran mills, plantations, tanyards, shipyards, and every kind of shop, tavern, and boardinghouse. They were gatekeepers, jail keepers, sextons, journalists, printers, apothecaries, midwives, nurses, and teachers.In Roman times Britain had as many people as at its peak in the Middle Ages. For four centuries it was an integral part of a single political system that ①stretched from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its ②involvement with Rome started before the Conquest ③launched by Claudius in AD 43, and it continued to be a part of the Roman world for some time after the ④final break with Roman rule. We are dealing with a full half-millennium of the history of Britain.The origins of later Britain go back beyond the Roman period. Aspects of the society the Romans found in Britain were beginning to ⑤emerge in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages. At the time of the Roman Conquest, the culture of Britain had something like fifteen hundred to two thousand years of development behind it—although the prehistorians are greatly divided on the ⑥details. By the end of the Pre-Roman Iron Age, society had⑦evolved forms of organization closely similar to those ⑧encountered by the Romans elsewhere in north-western Europe, and had adopted versions of the culture and language we loosely call …Celtic‟. Outside the imperial⑨frontiers in Britain these continued largely unchanged; inside, the Celtic substratum persisted, assimilated and adapted by Rome in ways not in ⑩general closely paralleled by modern colonial empires.There is one part of women‟s magazines that every man reads. It is the section popularly known as the "agony columns", where women, and ①increasingly men, write for advice on their ②emtional problems. The person who answers these letters usually has a very reassuring name which ③suggestsa gentle middle-aged lady with lots of wisdom and experience. At one time, it used to be widely believed that the letters were in fact all made up by someone on the ④editorial staff, and that the "Aunt Mary" who provided the answers was a fat man with beard, who drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney, and was ⑤unfaithful to his wife into the bargain. Although this may be true in some cases, the ⑥majority of advice columns are genuine, and the advisory staff are highly qualified people with a deep understanding of human problems.At one time, only the answers were ⑦published, not the letters themselves. Much of the fun in reading them⑧lay in trying to work out what on earth the problem was that led to such ⑨peculiar answers. Nowadays everything is much more explicit, and questions of the most intimate kind are fully dealt with. As the agony columns have become more progessional and more frank, a lot of ⑩fun has gone out of them. This is undoubtedly a good thing, because there is something very bad about our tendency to laugh at the misfortunes of our fellow men.In the late 1970s, air travel became affordable for the average family in the UK, and more people started traveling abroad for their summer holidays. After all, the British weather was not very good even in summer. So a lot of people left the country for a vacation. In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier on average. As a result, they started to go abroad in groups to places such as Athens／Span and Greece. Once they arrived their destination, they met with other groups of young people and had one long party. British holiday habits have begun to change, however. Climate change means that the UK now has a hotter climate. So people do not need to go overseas to find good weather, although going abroad is more expensive. As a result, more British are choosing to spend their summer holiday in the UK.1。
