山东省德州市2014届高考英语一轮复习完形填空加强训练44_高考复习指南

山东省德州市2014届高考英语一轮复习完形填空加强训练44

　　山东德州2014届高考英语一轮复习完形填空加强训练44

　　1.阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　There was a time when, if a lady got onto a crowded bus or train, a gentleman would immediately stand up and ___21___ her his seat. No more, though. Today a gentleman will probably look out of the window, ___22___, if he feels a bit guilty, hide behind his newspaper. ___23___ way, the lady will have to stand ___24___ someone else gets off.

　　You can’t entirely ___25___ men for this change in manners, though. The days are gone ___26___ women could be ___27___ to as the weaker sex without causing offence. A whole generation of women has grown up ___28___ equality with men; not just equality in jobs or education, ___29___ in social attitudes. Hold a door open for some women and you’re ___30___ to get an angry lecture on treating women as inferiors, ___31___ to open doors for themselves. ___32___ a girl out for a meal and she’ll probably ___33___ paying her share of the bill; though on second thoughts perhaps that’s not such a bad ___34___.

　　It’s no ___35___, then, that men have given up some of the automatic gestures of politeness and consideration ___36___ they used to show towards women. On the other___37___, automatic male politeness is perhaps slowly being ___38___ by true consideration for the needs and feelings of women, ___39___ men can see women as equal human beings, rather than ___40___ sex-objects or attractive properties.