2009年12月英语六级简答题全真模拟题(八)

　Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.

　　Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

　　Men, these days, are embracing fatherhood with the round-the-clock involvement their partners have always dreamed of handling night feedings, packing lunches and bandaging knees. But unlike women, many find theyre negotiating their new roles with little support or information. Men in my generation have a fear of becoming dads because we have no role models, says Jon Smith, a writer. They often find themselves excluded from mothers support networks, and are eyed warily on the playground.

　　The challenge is particularly evident in the workplace. There, men are still expected to be breadwinners climbing the corporate ladder; traditionally-minded bosses are often unsympathetic to family needs. In Denmark most new fathers only take two weeks of paternity leave even though they are allowed 34 days. As much as if not more so than women, fathers struggle to be taken seriously when they request flexible arrangements.

　　Though Wilfried-Fritz Maring, 54, a data-bank and Internet specialist with German firm FIZ Karlsruhe, feels that the time he spends with his daughter outweighs any disadvantages, he admits, With my decision to work from home I dismissed any opportunity for promotion.

　　Mind-sets are changing gradually. When Maring had a daughter, the company equipped him with a home office and allowed him to choose a job that could be performed from there. Danish telecom company TDC initiated an internal campaign last year to encourage dads to take paternity leave: 97 percent now do. When an employee goes on paternity leave and is with his kids, he gets a new kind of training: in how to keep cool under stress, says spokesperson Christine Elberg Holm. For a new generation of dads, kids may come before the company but its a shift that benefits both.

　　47. Unlike women, men often get little support or information from ______________.

　　48. Besides supporting the family, men were also expected to ________.

　　49. Like women, men hope that their desire for a flexible schedule will be _____________.

　　50. When Maring was on paternity leave, he was allowed by his company to work___________.

　　51. Christine Holm believes paternity leave provides a new kind of training for men in that it can help them cope with _____________.

　　Unit 8

　　47.mothers support network

　　48. climb the corporate ladder

　　49. taken seriously

　　50. in a home office

　　51. stress