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The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society——a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.
“My grandmothers didn't do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that,” said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.
While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers, and the same people who refused their parents' way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.
If you take into consideration feminism, a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable. In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.
“The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn’t go,” said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998.When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention.
“The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else,” Cooper said, “Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves”. This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. “We’re a ladies’ play group. It couldn’t be simpler,” added Cooper's assistant Joe Heywood.
16.The underlined word “chapter” in Paragraph 2 means ( ).
A. one branch of an organization
B. a written agreement of a club
C. one part of o collection of poems
D. a period in a society's history
【答案】A。含义题。通过题干中划线词定位至第二段其所处的句子,可知句意为“她是红帽协会7岁......的头领”,通过语义补充发现划线部分词的含义应当是A选项的“协会分支”。选项BCD的含义均与句意不搭,故正确答案是选项A。
17.From the text, we know that the “baby boomers” are a group of people who ( ).
A. have gradually become more noticeable
B. are worried about getting old too quickly
C. are enjoying a good life with plenty of money to spend
D. try living a different life from their parents when they were young
【答案】D。细节题。通过题干中关键词baby boomers可以定位至第三段末句But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers, and the same people who refused their parents' way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old. 可知baby boomers是一群拒绝接受父母生活方式的人,选项ABC的表述均与文中内容不符,故选项D正确。
18.“It couldn’t be simpler,” added Cooper’s assistant Joe Heywood. It could be inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are ( ).
A. interested in raising money for social work
B. programmers who can plan well for their future
C. believers in equality between men and women
D. good at cooking big meals and taking care of others
【答案】C。细节推测题。根据题干中引号内的关键词定位至末段最后一句话We’re a ladies’ play group.可知红帽协会强调的是成员之间的男女平等。选项A:喜欢为社会工作筹集资金,这句话并没有提及;选项B:总是为未来做好计划准备的按部就班的人,以及选项D都是在讲述过去的女性形象。故选项C正确。
19.Who set up the Red Hat Society? ( )
A. Emily Cornette.
B .Ellen Cooper.
C. Jenny Joseph.
D. Joe Heywood.
【答案】B。细节题。根据文中倒数第二段的首句Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998.可知红帽协会的创始人是Ellen Cooper.故正确答案是选项B。
20.Women join the Red Hat Society because ( ).
A. they want to stay young
B .they would like to appear more attractive
C. they would like to have a fun live for themselves
D. they want to be more like their parents
【答案】C。细节题。在文中末段的最后一句话提到“这就是一个女性娱乐组织而已,就这么简单,别无其他”。可知女性想加入这个组织仅仅是为了自己而活,所以选项C正确。浏览全文可知选项ABD均不是加入这个组织的根本原因。故正确答案是选项C。