华慧2013年10月中科院考博英语真题阅读理解真题训练Section A(第一篇).pdf

华慧考博—考博第一品牌 华慧网 考博咨询QQ：400 622 4468 第 1 页 共 5 页 2013年10月份中科院考博英语真题 阅读理解真题训练 PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION Section A (60 minute, 30 points) 　　Directions: Below each of the following passages you will find some questions or incomplete statements Each question or statement is followed by four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Read each passage carefully, and the select the choice that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark the letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet. 　　Passage One 　　Germany, Europes economic powerhouse, does not lack courage, it rebounded from two world wars, digested reunification and has new powered ahead of neighbors still reeling from the financial crisis. It overhauled a rigid labor market and raised the retirement age to 67 with little fuss. Most recently, it simply decided to abandon nuclear power. 　　With this boldness at the top comes obedience at the bottom--82 million Germans will wait at a pedestrian red light even with no car in sight. 　　But when it comes to empowering women, no Teutonic drive or respect seems to work--even under one of the worlds most powerful women, Chancellor Angela Merkel.Despite a batch of government measures and ever more passionate debate about gender roles, only about 14 percent of German mothers with one child resume full-time work, and only 6 percent of those with two, all 30 German stock index companies are run by men. Nationwide, a single 华慧考博—考博第一品牌 华慧网 考博咨询QQ：400 622 4468 第 2 页 共 5 页 woman presides on a supervisory board: Dr. Simone Bagel- Trah at Henkel. 　　Eighteen months after the International Herald Tribune launched a series on the state of women in the 21st century with a look at Germany, the country has emerged as a test case for the push-and-pull of economics and tradition. 　For the developed world, Germanys situation suggests that puzzling out how to remove enduring barriers to wom