49.Many girls are now likely to        .

     A. give up their jobs for good after they are married

     B. leave school as soon as they can

     C. marry so that they can get a job

     D. continue working until they are going to have a baby

48. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to         .

     A. stay at home after leaving school         

B. marry men younger than themselves

     C. start working again later in life          

D. marry while still at school

47.One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she         .

     A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves

     B. does not like children herself

     C. needn't worry about food for her children

     D. can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty

46. We are told that in a family in about 1900        .

     A. few children died before they were five

     B. seven or eight children lived to be more than five

     C. the youngest child would be fifteen

     D. four or five children died when they were five

45. C 詞義題。作者先在第一句介紹，每個家庭至少買一份報紙；由此我們可以推出后面的一些家庭與三四份報紙的關(guān)系是“訂閱（subscribe）”即agree to buy for a specified time。

B

    During the twentieth-century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty.

   This important change in women's life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life.

44. A 細節(jié)題。從took months and even years to travel from one country to another知，500年前新聞從一個國家傳到另一個國家需要很長時間。其它的都能從文中找到相應(yīng)介紹支持。

43. C 推斷題。根據(jù)it is worth the money for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country可知對廣告商而言投入的廣告費是“值得的（worthwhile）”；同時從后文可以知道其它選項不符合文意。

42. D 細節(jié)題。由The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate可知，古代新聞是通過人與人之間的交談口頭傳播的。

 45. Some people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. Here the phrase "subscribe to"means           .

    A. contribute to                       B. write to

C. agree to buy for a specified time       D. appreciate

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