Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.In American, although most men still do less housework than their wives, that gap has been halved since the 1960s. Today, 41 per cent of couples say they share childcare equally, compared with 25 percent in 1985. Men's greater involvement at home is good for their relationships with their spouses, and also good for their children. Hands-on fathers make better parents than men who...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
In American, although most men still do less housework than their wives, that gap has been halved since the 1960s. Today, 41 per cent of couples say they share childcare equally, compared with 25 percent in 1985. Men's greater involvement at home is good for their relationships with their spouses, and also good for their children. Hands-on fathers make better parents than men who let their wives do all the nurturing and childcare. They raise sons who are more expressive and daughters who are more likely to do well in school - especially in math and science.
In 1900, life expectancy in the United States was 47 years, and only four per cent of the population was 65 or older. Today, life expectancy is 76 years, and by 2025, it is estimated about 20 per cent of the U.S. population will be 65 or older. For the first time, a generation of adults must plan for the needs of both their parents and their children. Most Americans are responding with remarkable grace. One in four households gives the equivalent of a full day a week or more in unpaid care to an aging relative, and more than half say they expect to do so in the next 10 years. Older people are less likely to be impoverished or incapacitated by illness than in the past, and have more opportunity to develop a relationship with their grandchildren.
Even some of the choices that worry people the most are turning out to be manageable. Divorce rates are likely to remain high, and in many cases marital breakdown causes serious problems for both adults and kids. Yet when parents minimize conflict, family bonds can be maintained. And many families are doing this. More non-custodial parents are staying in touch with their children. Child-support receipts are rising. A lower proportion of children from divorced families are exhibiting problems than in earlier decades. And stepfamilies are learning to maximize children's access to supportive adults rather than cutting them off from one side of the family.
Question 4. Which of the following is NOT true about divorce rates in the USA?
A. They will still be high.
B. They can cause problems for both parents and children.
C. More problems are caused by children from divorced families.
D. Children are encouraged to meet their separate parents.
Question 9. Having been a famous ______for years, Halong Bay becomes even more renowned after it was listed
in 1994 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
A. destination B. architecture C. recognition D. monument
Question 10. Every day we see more and more pollution ______from the ocean onto our beaches.
A. come B. to come C. came D. be coming
Question 11. When children learn to be proud of the work they do, they will stick with their ______, even when
they become hard or challenging.
A. games B. causes C. tasks D. missions
Question 12. By cutting down trees, we share the responsibility of climate change, the ______ of our forests, and
the poisoning of our air and water.
A. destruct B. destructive C. destruction D. destructing
Question 13. Although on a departmental basis, postgraduate study within the faculty is not confined to
disciplinary boundaries.
A. organize B. organizing C. organization D. organized
Question 14. Those factories have been accused of toxic waste into the river.
A. having dumped B. being dumped C. dumped D. having been dumped