【2022年6月英语六级考试王长喜标准阅读(第2篇)】.pdfVIP

【2022年 6月英语六级考试王长喜标准阅读(第 2篇)】 第二篇 (Unit one Passage 2) Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not muchopportunity for women to exchange theirroles. But by the middle of this century, men s and women s roles were becoming less firmly fixed. In the 1950s, economic and social success wasthe goal ofthe typical American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes. In addition, many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier. Some youn men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam. In terms of numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But its influence spread to many parts of American society. Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social 1 / 5 patterns. Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on overtime work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods. In the 1970s, the feminist movement, or women s liberation, produced additiona economic and socia changes. Women of a ages and at a levels of society were enteringthe work force in greater numbers.Most of them