oned the fact that growing numbers of women are working outside the home, the father is still thought by many as the breadwinner in the household.
26. According to the author, being a father _____.
(A) brings a feeling of excitement to some men
(B) has a different meaning for those who have daughters
(C) makes some men feel proud and others uneasy
(D) means nothing but more responsibilities
27. It is stated in the passage that _____.
(A) some parents are not prepared to have a child
(B) young couples do not like children at all
(C) working couples do not have much time to take care of their children
(D) many parents look forward to having a boy as their first child
28. In the second paragraph, the author ______.
(A) criticizes fathers for not taking enough responsibilities in bringing up their children
(B) excuses the American writers for ignoring the difficulties of being a father
(C) supports the idea that the chief role of a father is to earn money for the family
(D) complains about the lack of social programs to help husbands adjust themselves to being a father
29. The transition to the mother's role requires that the wife ______.
(A) change her life style in a highly innovative way
(B) make a complete change in her everyday life to deal with the new situation
(C) stay at home to take care of the baby
(D) help her husband in his resocialization process
30. Some writers argue that with respect to the change of roles, fathers, compared with mothers, _____.
(A) have to shoulder more burdens (C) have an easier job to do
(B) have to make more difficult adaptations (D) can usually do a better job
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.
For most of the time this "conversation" goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become aware of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.
Different people converse with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.
There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a "process" conversation as opposed to a "content" conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies (策略) we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation. It is precisely this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.
31. Reading as a kind of conversation between the reader and the text becomes conscious only when _____.
(A) the reader's expectations agree with what is said in the text
(B) the reader has trouble understanding what the author says
(C) the reader asks questions and gets answers
(D) the reader understands a text very well
32. At a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to _____.
(A) read a text slowly (C) interpret a text in their own way
(B) read without thinking hard (D) concentrate on the meaning of words only
33. A "process" conversation has to do with ______.
(A) the application of reading strategies
(B) matching our expectations with the meaning of a text
(C) the development of our ability to check the details
(D) determining the main idea of a text
34. According to the passage, it is of great importance for readers at a higher level to maintain a balance between ______.
(A) conscious and unconscious levels of comprehension
(B) the reader's expectations and the meaning of a text
(C) lower and higher levels of comprehension
(D) interpreting and criticizing a text
35. If we want to develop our reading ability at an
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