89. Professional shop-lifters avoid being caught in the act by
A) passing goods from one to another
B) hiding behind ordinary shoppers
C) racing for the nearest exit
D) concealing goods in ordinary bath
90. Potential shop-lifters may be identified when the:
.A) seem unable to decide what to buy
B) openly signal to apparent strangers
C) are unusually chatty to assistants
D) set off towards emergency exits
Passage Five
Perhaps there are far more wives than I imagine who take it for granted that housework ii neither satisfying nor even important once the basic demands of hygiene and feeding have been met. But home and family is the one realm in which it is really difficult to shale free: of one's upbringing and create new values. My parents' house was impeccably kept; cleanliness was a moral and social virtue, and personal untidiness, visibly old clothes, or long male hair provoked biting jocularity. If that had been all, maybe I could have adapted myself to housework on an easy-going, utilitarian basis, refusing the moral overtones but shill believing in it as something constructive because it is part of creating a home. But at the same time my mother used to recant doing it, called it drudgery, and convinced me that it wasn't a fit activity for an intelligent being. I was an only child, and once I was at school there was no reason why she should have continued against her will to remain housebound, unless, as I suspect, my father would not hear of her having a job of her own
I can now begin to understand why a woman in a small suburban house, with no infants to look after, who does not enjoy reading because she has not had much of an education, and who is intelligent enough to find neighbourly chit-chat boring, should carry the pursuit of microscopic specks of dust to the point of fanaticism in an attempt to fill hours and salvage her self-respect. My parents had not even the status-seeking impetus to send me to university that Joe's had; my mother wanted me to be `a nice quiet person who wouldn't be noticed in a crowd', and it was feared that university education results in ingratitude (independence)..
It is constantly niggling not only to be doing jobs that require so little; valuable effort, but also jobs which are mainly concerned with simply keeping level with natural processes--cleaning jobs, whether of objects or people. which once done are not done for good, and will have to be done all over again, just as if I have not alreadv made the effort; the next day, or even within a few hours. There is something so negative about this role that society heaps entirely un to the shoulders of women. flat of making sure that things do not get dirty, and people do not get unhealthy. I want to believe in health as something basic, neutral, to assume that all the essentials are cared for, or at least will not magnify themselves into a full-time occupation.
Can you imagine what would happen to a man who was suddenly uprooted from a job in which he placed the meaning of his life, and delegated to a mindless task, in performing which he was also cut off fairly completely from the people who shared his interests'? I think more of the men I know would disintegrate completely.
9l . 'The writer attributes her attitude towards housework to
A) her rejection of her parents' old-fashioned standards
B) her determination to avoid her mother's mistakes
C) her inherited feelings of duty and resentment
D) her spoil upbringing as an only child
92. The writer's parents reacted to a slovenly appearance by .._.._._.
A) criticising the offender bitterly
B) stressing the social importance of cleanliness C) making sarcastic comments about the matter D) expressing a sense: of moral indignation
93. It scems to the wrik r that some suburban houscwivcs may A) engage in tedious gossip merely to pass file time
B) allow routine tasks to become cut obsession
C) come to regret their lack of a proper education D) come to find housework a fulfilling occupation 94. Her parents didn't encourage her to go to unnrisity because they thought A) she wouldn't appreciate the sacrifice it would invohr
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