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.”
A housewife’s services in a family of five people are worth______.
A. $ 160 a mouth on average.
B. nearly $ 1,000 a mouth on average.
C. more than $ 1,000 a mouth on average.
D. $ 1,600 a mouth on average.
Đáp án B
Sự phục vụ của 1 người vợ nội trợ trong gia đình đáng giá ______.
A. trung bình 1 tháng 160 đô la.
B. trung bình 1 tháng gần 1.000 đô la.
C. trung bình 1 tháng hơn 1.000 đô la.
D. trung bình 1 tháng 1.600 đô la.
Dẫn chứng ở câu 3- đoạn 1: “In a 1986 study at Cornell University, sociologists found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $ 11,600 a year.” – (Theo như nghiên cứu vào năm 1896 ở trường Đại học Cornell, các nhà xã hội học đã thấy rằng giá cả những dịch vụ mà 1 người nội trợ làm trong gia đình trung bình là 11,600 đô la 1 năm) => Trung bình gần 1000 đô la 1 tháng.