TEST 69 (16-10) Đề thi một tiết của trường Bmt sáng nay. Các em làm thử nhé. Bài đọc hay quá! As working women continue to receive better and better wages, housewives still work at home without receiving pay-checks. Should a woman who works at home, doing the housework and caring for children, be paid for her services? In a 1986 study at Cornell University, sociologists found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $11,600 a year. This rate was based on a family consisting of a husband, a wife and three young children. The $11,600 is what the husband would have to pay if he hired someone to take over his wife’s household chores. The researchers concluded that it would be fair for husbands to pay wives according to federal guidelines for minimum wages. Another plan for rewarding women who work at home has been suggested by a former Secretary of Health and Human Services. He says that full-time housewives should be allowed to pay social security taxes, with their employers contributing part of the payment. He also adds that the present system is unfair. He says, “If you work as a clerk in a store, you can get social security, but if you stay at home and take care of your family, nobody will give you a credit for it.” 31. What is the main purpose of this passage? A. To encourage women to go out to work. B. To ask men to treat wives better. C. To suggest that housewives should do their household chores by themselves. D. To suggest that men should share housework with their wives. 32. A housewife’s services in a family of five members are worth __________. A. $160 a month on average B. nearly $1,000 a month on average C. more than $1,000 a month on average D. $1,600 a month on average 33. According to the researchers, husbands should __________. A. pay wages to their wives for their housework B. hire others to do their wives’ housework C. take responsibility for their housework D. replace their wives to take care of their children 34. The underlined word EMPLOYERS is the passage refers to __________. A. husbands B. sponsors C. owners D. bosses 35. What is not true about the passage? A. Unlike working women, housewives get no pay for their doing housework. B. Women who go to work get more offers than housewives. C. Housewives’ services should be rewarded. D. Full-time housewives are allowed to pay social security taxes.
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