Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
As working women continue to receive better and better wages, housewives still work at home without receiving pay – checks. Should a woman who works at home, doing the housework and caring for children, be paid for her service? In a 1986 study at Cornell University, sociologists found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $ 11,600 a year. This rate was based on a family composed of a husband, wife, and three young children. The $ 11,600 is what the husband would have to pay if he hired others to take over his wife’s household chores. The researchers concluded that it would be fair for husbands to pay wives according to federal guidelines for minimum wages.
Another plan for rewarding women who work at home has been suggested by a former Secretary of Health and Human Services. He says that full-time housewives should be allowed to pay social security taxes, with their employers contributing part of the payment. He feels that the present system is unfair. He said, “ If you stay at home and raise a family, nobody will give you credit for it.”
According to the researchers, husbands should ____
A. pay wages to their wives for their housework.
B. hire others to take over their wives’ household chores.
C. help their wives with the housework.
D. care for the children.
Đáp án A
Theo các nhà nghiên cứu, những người chồng nên ______.
A. trả lương vợ theo công việc nhà.
B. thuê người khác tiếp nhận công việc nhà của vợ mình.
C. giúp vợ làm việc nhà.
D. chăm sóc con cái.
Dẫn chứng câu cuối đoạn 1: “The researchers concluded that it would be fair for husbands to pay wives according to federal guidelines for minimum wages.” – (Các nhà nghiên cứu kết luận rằng sẽ là công bằng nếu người chồng trả lương cho vợ theo chính sách liên bang về mức lương tối thiểu)