求英语听力答案
求英语听力答案
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.
My first home-stay experience was in Osaka
with a rather typical Japanese family,consisting of the parents and two kids.
The father is an employee of Sharp Co.and the mother is a housewife.It is not
unusual in Japan for a woman to (1) her job after having a
child.Mothers often leave their job (2),with no plans to ever return to work again.What
surprised me was the lack of the father's (3)at home.The children seldom see their father as he comes
home very late at night and leaves for work rather early.The only time that the
whole family can get together is on the weekend,as long as the father doesn't
have to play golf with his colleagues or (4).Recently,due to the economic (5)in Japan,there has been a change.There has been less
of a need for businessmen to work overtime than before,(6)fathers to come home earlier and spend more time with their
families.My second home-stay was with a Japanese family of three generations.The
grandfather was a teacher of flower (7).The grandmother had been a housewife all her life.Although the grandparents lived in the same house,(8).The father
and mother ran a bakery.Despite the fact that (9),she did
almost all the housework.The father,on the other hand,would do very little.When he was free,he
would go drinking with his friends.(10),and he would leave the work for his wife to do.
give up
forever
presence
friends
recession
more
art
too