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C. intends to show the advantages of working in a small business
D. explains the disadvantages of being a top leader in a large business
Passage 2
In the old days, when a glimpse of stockings was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men.
Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man's secretary became his personal servant ,charged with remembering his wife's birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay; and of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand.
Now all this may be changing again .The microchip (
集成块
) and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much better of the routine clerical work that secretaries did.
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Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work
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and then men will want to do it again.
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That was said by one of the executives(male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country.What he has predicted is already under way in the U.S.
Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine, will there be a male takeover? Men should beware of thinking that they can walk right into better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they
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not just because they can buy negligees(
妇女长睡衣
) for the boss's wife, but because they are as efficient and well-trained to cope with word processors and computers as men.
26.Before 1914 female secretaries were rare because they ______.
A. were less efficient than men
B. were not as serious as men
C. liked stockings
D. would have disturbed other office workers
27.Besides fulfilling other duties, a female secretary was expected to _____.
A. be her boss's memory
B. clean her boss's clothes
C. do what her boss asked her to
D. telephone her boss's wife
28.Secrtaries,until recently, had to do a lot of work now done by _____.
A. machines
B. other staff
C. servants
D. wives
29.A secretary in the future will ______.
A. be better paid
B. have higher status
C. have less work to do
D. have more work to do
30.The writer believes that before long _____.
A. both men and women will be qualified secretaries
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