Women were trained to be consumer homemakers as a result of

Câu hỏi :

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 3 to 7. 

     As the twentieth century began, the importance of formal education in the United States increased. The frontier had mostly disappeared and by 1910 most Americans lived in towns and cities. Industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life combined with a new emphasis upon credentials and expertise to make schooling increasingly important for economic and social mobility. Increasingly, too, schools were viewed as the most important means of integrating immigrants into American society. 

     The arrival of a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling. By 1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in most states, and the school year was greatly lengthened.  Kindergartens, vacation schools and extracurricular activities, and vocational education and counseling extended the influence of public schools over the lives of students, many of whom in the larger industrial cities were the children of immigrants. Classes for adult immigrants were sponsored by public schools, corporations, unions, churches, settlement houses, and other agencies. 

     Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs should suit the needs of specific populations. Immigrant women were once such population. Schools tried to educate young women so they could occupy productive places in the urban industrial economy, and one place many educators considered appropriate for women was the home. Although looking after the house and family was familiar to immigrant women, American education gave homemaking a new definition. In preindustrial economies, homemaking had meant the production as well as the consumption of goods, and it commonly included income-producing activities both inside and outside the home, in the highly industrialized early-twentieth century United States, however, overproduction rather than scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the ideal American homemaker was viewed as a consumer rather than a producer. Schools trained women to be consumer homemakers cooking, shopping, decorating, and caring for children "efficiently" in their own homes, or if economic necessity demanded, as employees in the homes of others. Subsequent reforms have made these notions seem quite out-of-date. 

Women were trained to be consumer homemakers as a result of __________.


A. income-producing activities in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States


B. economic necessity in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States

C. scarcity in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States

D. overproduction in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States

* Đáp án

D

* Hướng dẫn giải

Đáp án D

Giải thích: 

Phụ nữ được đào tạo để trở thành người nội trợ tiêu dùng do __________. 

A. các hoạt động tạo thu nhập ở Hoa Kì đầu thế kỉ XX      B. sự cần thiết kinh tế ở Hoa Kì đầu thế kỉ XX

C. sự khan hiếm ở Hoa Kì đầu thế kỉ XX                D. sản xuất quá mức ở Hoa Kỳ đầu thế kỷ XX

Thông tin: … in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States, however, overproduction rather than scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the ideal American homemaker was viewed as a consumer rather than a producer.

Tạm dịch: … tuy nhiên, ở Hoa Kỳ đầu thế kỷ XX có nền công nghiệp hóa cao, sản xuất thừa thay vì sự thiếu thốn đã trở thành một vấn đề. Do đó, người nội trợ lý tưởng của Mỹ được xem như một người tiêu dùng hơn là một nhà sản xuất. 

Chọn D.

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