Question

How do you get a man to do his share of the housework? If you are like most women, you’ve faced this question the hard way.

A man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to clean or organize it. This doesn’t mean that a woman has to do all the housework; she may have to manage many of the household duties, and request her partner’s joining. A woman can often say that men and women should take equal responsibility for housework.

Very few men are raised to be fully responsible for housework, and many men look on housework as women’s work. On the other hand, most men will readily work around the yard, make repairs and complete projects on weekends or evenings, and it’s important that you give your man appreciation(欣赏) for those things, too. Most men will take on a little housework around the house if asked politely. They are even more likely to do housework if they can choose what they want to do , and do it without being monitored(监视).

Here is the key: men want to feel that they are doing housework either because they want to do a task, or they simply want to please their women. Men are less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant. In other words, men are likely to do a housework task just for the good of the house.

1.The passage is mainly about how to ________.

A．get men to do some housework            B．get men to serve their families

C．praise men’s housework                 D．get men to do all the housework

2.According to a passage, a man _______ .

A．is willing to do housework

B．likes to be told to do housework

C．is taught to be responsible for housework from childhood

D．likes a clean house but doesn’t make effort to clean it.

3.In order to get men to do housework, women should often ________ .

A．order them to do their share              B．ask them to do some housework politely

C．blame men’s laziness                   D．monitor men’s work

4.According to the passage, the underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that men won’t __________ .

A． work without any payment               B．do unimportant housework tasks

C．do housework with women’s praises       D．please their wives

5.According to the passage, which of the following would a husband most probably like to ?

A．Cleaning the table                       B．Doing some washing

C．Painting the fence                       D．Asking his wife to work on the yard.

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.B

5.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲了如何让男士参加家务劳动。

1.根据How do you get a man to do his share of the housework?故选A。

2.根据A man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to clean or organize it.故选D。

3.根据Most men will take on a little housework around the house if asked politely.可知答案为B。

4.根据Men are less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant.可知答案为 B。

5.根据On the other hand, most men will readily work around the yard, make repairs and complete projects on weekends or evenings,答案为C。

考点：日常生活类短文阅读理解。