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Some couples choose not to learn the sex of their baby before he or she is born because the moment people hear "boy" or "girl" they begin to make assumptions (设想) about a child. One couple in Sweden decided to take that logic a few steps further, and are refusing to tell anyone whether their child is a boy or a girl. The child–called Pop, to protect his or her identity–is now two years old, and only a few close relatives know the sex. “We want Pop to grow up more freely, Pop’s mother said. Pop wears dresses, and also “male” styled pants and Pop’s hairstyle. changes often. Nordenstrom, who studies hormonal (荷尔蒙) influences on gender, says, “It will affect the child, but it’s hard to say if it will hurt the development. I don’t know what they are trying to achieve. It’s going to make the child different.” She says if Pop is still “genderless(无性的)by the time he or she starts school, Pop will certainly receive a lot of attention from classmates.“We don’t know exactly what determines sexual identity, but it’s not only sexual education,” says Nordenstrom.“Gender-typical behavior, sexual preferences and sexual identity usually go together. There are hormonal and other influences that we don’t know that will determine the gender of the child.” Pop will soon welcome a brother, or a sister. Pop’s parents will not reveal sex of that child, either, except, perhaps, to Pop.

1. What did the couple in Sweden do to their child？

A. They taught their child to take a few steps further.

B. They didn't want anyone to know the sex of their baby before it was born.

C. They are refusing to tell the sex of their child.

D. They refused to let their relatives get close to their child.

2. Why was the child called Pop？

A. It is a very beautiful name for a child.

B. The parents want this name to bring the child good luck.

C. It is a very meaningful name.

D. The name makes it hard for others to tell the sex of the baby.

3. What can we learn from what Nordenstrom said？

A. It's hard to tell whether the influence on the child will be good or bad.

B. The child will become abnormal (反常的).

C. The child is neither a boy nor a girl because it is "genderless."

D.Hormonal influence will determine the gender of the child.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph？

A. Pop is going to have a brother or a sister.

B. Pop will know the sex of himself or herself soon.

C. Pop's parents decided to tell people the baby's sex.

D. Pop's parents will also keep secret the sex of their new baby.

5. The best title for the passage is _____________.

A. Pop's life.

B. Keeping the Gender of a 2-Year-Old Secret

C. Study on Gender

D. how to Raise a Child Properly

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent，notions of superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality，and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home，the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of sexes”.

If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important-and that has happened in some cases-we are as badly off as before. only in reverse. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism” -but we don't want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism” . What we need，rather，is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists，psychologists，social workers，and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credits-nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is in the home. We are beginning，however，to analyze man's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child. The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules，because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences，whether it wears skirts or trousers，and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent(与……有关)not only to a healthy family but also to a healthy democracy.

Sharing tasks and decisions in a family leads to______.

A. monism

B. neo-popism

C. inequality

D. further sharing

A.keep

B.wears

C.keeps

D.wear