Технологии подготовки к ГИА (ЕГЭ) Grammar and Vocabulary. Part 2. Word Formation.
материал для подготовки к егэ (гиа) по английскому языку (10, 11 класс) на тему

We’ve been hearing a lot about “women’s lib” in the last few years. Women, we’ve been told, want more freedom.  They want better jobs, more pay, less time at home with their children.  They   think   that   women should   have   the   same  chances as men.    All this made some  men    (1) …………….. . “There are too many women in charge already,” they say. “And anyway, a woman’s place is in the home.”

Do British women have the same rights as British men? Do they have more (2) …………….  and more power than they did ten years ago? Are women getting better jobs and better pay? What are the facts?

In the world of work, things have not changed much in the last ten years. Forty per cent of jobs are done by women, but only twenty-five per cent are done by (3)…………………..  women.

And the jobs that women do are the worst paid and the least interesting. The average pay for women is much less than the average pay for men.

In public life, too, things are not very (4) ……………………….. True, Britain had a woman Prime Minister, but only 25 out of 650 Members of Parliament are women.     There  are  very  few  women  in  the  top  business  jobs,  or in the most (5) ………………………………………………….…………… jobs in the civil (6) ………………….. and the few women at the top often have problems with jealous fellow-workers.

On the other hand, some things have been changing. Men seem to be more (7)……………….. in their homes and their children these days. Perhaps father’s interest starts at birth. (8) …………………….… . Ninety-five per cent of British fathers now watch their babies being born. Thirty years ago, most fathers would not push a baby’s pram around the streets or change a baby’s clothes. They thought it was “silly” or “(9) …………………….”. Now, most fathers are happy to take the baby out, and many will spend much longer playing with and looking after their (10) ………………. .

What about housework? Does the modern British man work in the kitchen, or go round with the vacuum cleaner, or hang up the washing to dry? Not very often, is the answer. Most men are happy to pour out the drinks when guests visit, or sometimes wash up after a meal. But women still do nearly all the work at home, even when they have a full-time job.

Men don’t really need to worry about “women’s lib” after all. Not yet, anyway…

NERVE

FREE

MARRIAGE

DIFFER

IMPORTANCE

SERVANT

INTERESTING

PROBABILITY

MAN

CHILDHOOD

1

nervous

6

service

2

freedom

7

interested

3

married

8

probably

4

different

9

unmanly

5

important

10

children