中山大学新理5.0英语自主学习大厅第四册第六单元D套答案B4U6-D Part I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes ) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false. 1. A) T B) F Script: Technology has released us from the burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. 正确答案： B 2. A) T B) F Script: With ever-larger quantities of goods and services produced, people just try to buy more, travel more and play more. 正确答案： A 3. A) T B) F Script: Some unemployed or retired people say they are overstressed just because they want to show they are important. 正确答案： A 4. A) T B) F Script: Obviously, working couples with pre-school children gained less than an hour a week in free time. 正确答案： A 5. A) T B) F Script: Advances in household appliances have liberated women so that they can get the same hours of free time as men do. 正确答案： B 6. A) T B) F Script: The suggested way to get out of the trouble is that we should set boundaries for ourselves. 正确答案： A 7. A) T B) F Script: According to Text B, it is humans nature to choose for slower. 正确答案： B 8. A) T B) F Script: There are places and objects that signify patience, like the door-close button in elevators, reminding us to slow down. 正确答案： B 9. A) T B) F Script: The development of technologies makes it possible for people to perform a few tasks at the same time. 正确答案： A 10. A) T B) F Script: People may prefer a 30-minute train ride to a 20-minute drive because they could read on the train. 正确答案： A Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. The family is changing. In the past, grandparents, parents, and children used to live together, and they had an extended family. But family structure is changing throughout the world. The nuclear family (11)_ of only one father, one mother, and children; it is becoming the (12)_ family structure everywhere. The nuclear family (13)_ married women some advantages: they have freedom from their relatives, and the husband does not have all the power of the family. Studies show that in nuclear families, men and women usually make an (14)_ number of decisions about family life. But wives usually have to “pay” for the (15)_ of freedom and power. When women lived in extended families, sisters, grandparents and aunts helped one another with housework and (16)_ . In addition, older women in a large family group had important (17)_ . Wives in nuclear families do not often enjoy this benefit, and they have another disadvantage, too: women generally live longer than their husbands, so older women from nuclear families often (18)_ . Studies show that women are generally (19)_ marriage than men are. In the past, men worked outside the home and women worked inside. Housework and childcare were a full time job, and there was no time for anything else. Now women work outside and (20)_ than they did in the past, but they still have to do most of the housework. The women actually have two full-time jobs, and they have not much free time. Script: The family is changing. In the past, grandparents, parents, and children used to live together, and they had an extended family. But family structure is changing throughout the world. The nuclear family consists of only one father, one mother, and children; it is becoming the main family structure everywhere. The nuclear family offers married women some advantages: they have freedom from their relatives, and the husband does not have all the power of the family. Studies show that in nuclear families, men and women usually make an equal number of decisions about family life. But wives usually have to “pay” for the benefits of freedom and power. When women lived in extended families, sisters, grandparents and aunts helped one another with housework and childcare. In addition, older women in a large family group had important positions. Wives in